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The Deering Banjo Company was started in 1975 by Greg and Janet Deering. They are located in Spring Valley, California. It is now run by their daughter Jamie Deering. [1] Deering Banjos makes Deering, Vega, Tenbrooks, and Goodtime banjos. Many notable banjo players play Deering banjos.
Gibson manufactured banjos in the years before World War II.They are differentiated from later Gibson banjos by their scarcity. Banjo sales plummeted during the Great Depression, for lack of buyers, and metal parts became scarce into the 1940s as factories shifted to support the war. [1]
Reflecting the cultures that settled North America, the roots of old-time music are in the traditional musics of the British Isles, [2] Europe, and Africa. African influences are notably found in vocal and instrumental performance styles and dance, as well as the often cited use of the banjo; in some regions, Native American, Spanish, French and German sources are also prominent. [3]
Samuel Swaim Stewart (January 8, 1855—April 6, 1898), also known as S. S. Stewart, was a musician, composer, publisher, and manufacturer of banjos. [3] He owned the S. S. Stewart Banjo Company, which was one of the largest banjo manufacturers in the 1890s, manufacturing tens-of-thousands of banjos annually. [4]
Banjo guitar, also known as banjitar [1] or ganjo, [2] is a six-string banjo tuned in the standard tuning of a six-string guitar (E2-A2-D3-G3-B3-E4 from lowest to highest strings). The instrument is intended to allow guitar players to emulate a banjo, without learning the different tuning and fingering techniques required for the standard five ...
Range of products commercialised under the Recording King brand are acoustic and resonator guitars, and banjos. [4] Their guitars are designed in America, manufactured overseas and sold worldwide. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ]
Dueling Banjos is a 1973 soundtrack album to the film Deliverance by American banjoists Marshall Brickman, Steve Mandell, and Eric Weissberg released by Warner Bros. Records and made up of the title track by Mandell and Weissberg and a repackaged version of the 1963 album New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass by Brickman and Weissberg.
James Robert Mills (December 18, 1966 – May 3, 2024) was an American musician known primarily as a bluegrass banjo player who played in the three-finger style popularized by Earl Scruggs. Mills was also well known as an expert on pre-war Gibson banjos. He resided in Durham, North Carolina. [1]