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The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and in modern forms is usually made of BOPET, where early membranes were made of goat skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by African Americans and had African antecedents, and the instrument was strongly associated with black people. In th

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Banjo
A five-string banjo
String instrument
Hornbostel–Sachs classification321.312 (resonator) or 321.314 (open-backed)
(Composite chordophone with a neck that passes diametrically through the resonator, sounded by plectrum, finger picks, or the bare fingers)
Developed18th century, United States
Sound sample
"Don't Let Your Deal Go Down"
Flatt and Scruggs song that opens with Bluegrass banjo, using the modern banjo-picking style with fingerpicks known as Scruggs style.
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"The Buffalo Rag"
Tom Turpin's 1904 composition "The Buffalo Rag", in a 1906 performance by Vess Ossman. Although this is a ragtime piece, Ossman played with classic banjo style. He fingerpicked gut strings using a technique similar to classical guitarists.
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