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banjo Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
Musical instrument with four to nine strings, a body of stretched parchment on a metal hoop, and a long, fretted
banjo Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Music (6 ed.)
Instr of the same general type as the *guitar, but the resonating body is of parchment strained over a metal hoop and it has an open back. May have from 4 to 9 str (5 on modern instr), ...
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banjo Reference library
Jeremy Montagu
The Oxford Companion to Music
A plucked string instrument with a shallow body consisting of a hoop or rim covered with a tautly stretched membrane (the ‘head’) of parchment, skin, or plastic (like a ...
plectrum
Small thin piece of horn, wood, tortoiseshell, metal, ivory, or other material used to pluck the str. of certain str. instrs. such as zither, mandolin, lyre, lute, banjo, etc. On the hpd. it is a ...
re-entrant tuning
A tuning that is not sequential in pitch. Instruments that characteristically have re-entrant tunings include the five-string banjo, the cittern, the theorbo, and the ukulele.
ukulele
A small four-string guitar derived in Hawaii in the 1870s from the Portuguese machête taken there by sailors. Being small, lightweight, relatively cheap, and easy to learn, it became very ...
