(pronounced ban-joe): To banjo someone is a Glaswegian term meaning to hit them a single hard blow
A stringed instrument similar to a guitar; often used as a chordal instrument in traditional jazz styles
A banjo is a musical instrument that looks like a guitar with a circular body, a long neck, and four or more strings. Plucked stringed musical instrument of African origin. It has a tambourine-like body, four or five strings, and a long fretted neck. The fifth string (if present) is pegged at the fifth fret and acts primarily as a drone plucked by the thumb. In its original form, the banjo had only four strings and lacked frets. Slaves introduced the instrument to the U.S., where it was popularized in 19th-century minstrel shows and thence exported to Europe. It has been an important American folk instrument, especially in bluegrass, and it was used in early jazz
The first documentation of the banjo was found in the 17th century It looks like a Guitar with a long, narrow, fretted neck and a Tambourine like body It is play by plucking or strumming the strings A shorter necked version of Banjo, without the thumb-string, is called the tenor Banjo
A member of the string instrument family, part of the subfamily of unbowed strings The banjo was developed in the United States by African Americans based on older African instruments It usually has either four or five strings It has the following stages of sound production: energy source: muscle vibrating element: the strings resonating chamber: the instrument's body
Plucked-string instrument with round body in the form of a single-headed drum and a long, fretted neck; brought to the Americas from Africa by early slaves