The Blues Banjo: The instruments: The banjo harp

The banjo harp



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    Data:
  • Body shape: Round
  • Top: Flat
  • Back: Resonator
  • Bridge: Floating
  • Frets: Fixed
  • Strings: 4 or 5 (5th string a short "thumb string")
  • Courses: 4 or 5 ( 1 or none - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1)
Essentially a banjo with the skin head replaced by a wooden top. The banjo harp seems to have been invented by Paramount during the 1920s, although other kinds of wood top banjos existed much earlier than that.

Paramount made a fivestring banjo harp version, a fourstring tenor harp and probably versions matching the other banjo sizes common at that time as well.

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