tenor banjo
Irish session staple
A tenor banjo is a four-stringed banjo with a shorter neck than the standard five-string instrument, typically tuned in fifths like a viola or mandola.
It emerged in the early twentieth century for jazz and dance band music, where its bright, cutting tone could punch through an ensemble: He plays tenor banjo in a traditional jazz quartet.
- rimCircular outer boundary
- fretboardStringed instrument's neck face
- stringsThin flexible lines
- DixielandEarly New Orleans jazz
- fretsWorries or string dividers
bridge · resonator · strumming · pluck · headstock · vaudeville · Irish · jug band · string band · old time music · picking · trad jazz · jazz band · Roaring Twenties · neck · ragtime · plectrum · bluegrass
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jazz age instrumentation
tenor banjotuba
Lowest brass instrument
sousaphone · string bass · drums · washboard