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  2. Banjo ukulele - Wikipedia

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    The banjo ukulele neck typically has sixteen frets, and is the same scale length as a soprano or, less commonly, concert or tenor-sized ukulele. Banjo ukuleles may be open-backed, or may incorporate a resonator. Banjo ukulele heads were traditionally made of calf skin, but most modern instruments are fitted with synthetic heads. Some players ...

  3. Cümbüş - Wikipedia

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    The cümbüş is shaped like an American banjo, with a spun-aluminum resonator bowl and skin soundboard. Although originally configured as an oud, the instrument has been converted to other instruments by attaching a different set of neck and strings. [2] The standard cümbüş is fretless, but guitar, mandolin and ukulele versions have fretboards.

  4. Mandolin-banjo - Wikipedia

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    Banjo hybrids normally take their names from the Banjo- prefix, and then the second half of the other instrument's name, such as banjocello, banjo guitar, and banjo ukulele which implies the banjolin is a sort of mandolin/banjo hybrid. In the advertisement, Farris did not mention where the name came from, but did say that it was "fingered like ...

  5. Roy Smeck - Wikipedia

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    He also appeared with Columbo in That Goes Double (1933), which featured Smeck on a screen divided into four parts, simultaneously playing steel guitar, tenor banjo, ukulele, and six-string guitar. Smeck played at Franklin D. Roosevelt 's presidential inaugural ball in 1933, George VI's coronation review in 1937, and toured globally.

  6. Favilla Guitars - Wikipedia

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    In the 1950s and 1960s Herk Favilla was involved with music publication as well. In 1951 [3] he authored and published a two-volume baritone ukulele method, one volume for self-taught beginners, the other for students and professionals. [5] He also published a collection of arranged guitar music in 1965. [6]

  7. Tahitian ukulele - Wikipedia

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    The Tahitian ukulele (ʻukarere or Tahitian banjo) is a short-necked fretted lute with eight nylon strings in four doubled courses, native to Tahiti and played in other regions of Polynesia. This variant of the older Hawaiian ukulele is noted by a higher and thinner sound and an open back, [ 1 ] and is often strummed much faster.