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Hybrid of mandolin and banjo but with only one string per course Banjo, Long Neck 5 strings 5 courses. E 4 B 2 E 3 G ♯ 3 B 3 "Pete Seeger" Banjo US (commissioned by Pete Seeger) Open string tuning; often played with capo on 3rd fret Banjo, tenor 4 strings 4 courses. Standard/common : C 3 G 3 D 4 A 4. Alternate: Irish : G 2 D 3 A 3 E 4; US US ...
Gerry O'Connor (born 21 July 1960 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland) is a traditional tenor banjo player. As Earl Hitchener (music critic for the Wall Street Journal) said, Gerry O'Connor can be considered at the moment "the single best four string banjoist in the history of Irish Music". [1] He also plays mandolin, fiddle, guitar and tenor ...
The instruments that are known in the US as the mandola and the octave mandolin tend to be known in Great Britain and Ireland as the tenor mandola or the octave mandola. The Irish bouzouki is a very similar instrument, and is often confused with the octave mandolin, but it has a shorter scale length and a different tuning.
The most commonly used tuning is A-E-A-E. Likewise banjo players in this tradition use many tunings to play melody in different keys. A common alternative banjo tuning for playing in D is A-D-A-D-E. Many Folk guitar players also used different tunings from standard, such as D-A-D-G-A-D, which is very popular for Irish music.
The Irish bouzouki (Irish: búsúcaí) [1] is an adaptation of the Greek bouzouki (Greek: μπουζούκι).The newer Greek tetrachordo bouzouki (4 courses of strings) was introduced into Irish traditional music in the mid-1960s by Johnny Moynihan of the folk group Sweeney's Men, who retuned it from its traditional Greek tuning C³F³A³D⁴ to G²D³A³D⁴, a tuning he had pioneered ...
Tenor balalaika; Bass balalaika; Contrabass balalaika; Bandol (Trinidad and Tobago) Bandolón (Mexico) Bandura (Ukraine) Bandurria (Spain) Banjo (United States) Banjo cello; Banjolin; Banjulele; Bass banjo; Bluegrass banjo (5-string banjo) Contrabass banjo; Electric banjo; Fretless banjo; Guitanjo; Long neck banjo; Plectrum banjo; Tenor banjo ...
Some 1920s Irish banjo players picked out the melodies of jigs, reels, and hornpipes on tenor banjos, decorating the tunes with snappy triplet ornaments. The most important Irish banjo player of this era was Mike Flanagan of the New York-based Flanagan Brothers, one of the most popular Irish-American groups of the day. Other pre-WWII Irish ...
Cathal Sean Hayden is a Northern Irish musician, acclaimed for his skilled style of Irish fiddle and tenor (four-stringed) banjo.He was born on 13 July 1963, in the village of the Rock, County Tyrone [1] (outside Pomeroy), an area immersed in traditional music.