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Accomplishing the same goal in single string style often requires a different right hand approach. While at times the thumb may be used in a manner inconsistent with a banjo roll -based style, the "cascading" effect of the roll is still present in many examples of melodic style playing (especially with the bombastic descending runs, popular in ...
Billy Faier (December 21, 1930 – January 29, 2016) was an American banjo player and folk music evangelist. He, along with Pete Seeger, was one of the early exponents of the banjo during the mid-20th-century American folk music revival.
Perhaps the most visible Vega instrument in the 1950s and 60s was the long neck 5-string banjo designed and used by folk singer Pete Seeger, and later by several folk groups like The Kingston Trio and The Limeliters. Martin also used the Vega name for a line of strings.
five-string banjo (also often with four or six strings) six-string guitar with one string removed, often the low "E", and retuned; vihuela, from Spain, Portugal, or Italy c. 1450-1550 (also often with six courses of strings) Mexican vihuela, c. 1800–present, often played in mariachi groups
A gig bag (or gigbag) is a padded, soft-sided bag used for the storage and transport of musical instruments, [1] most commonly a guitar or bass guitar.A popular alternative to the usually heavier, more cumbersome hard shell cases, most gig bags include pockets for storage of sheet music, instrument cables, picks, straps, and other accessories, along with shoulder straps and grab handles for ...
Also, the tuning given is for a very specific kind of 4-string banjo, the tenor--I've corrected that in the caption, at least. (Just "4-string" implies the plectrum banjo, which is tuned the same as the 5-string, minus the short 5th string). Another problem with the image is the label "playing range".