The Blues Banjo: The instruments: The plectrum banjo

The plectrum banjo



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  • Body shape: Round
  • Top: Skin
  • Back: Open or resonator
  • Bridge: Floating
  • Frets: Fixed
  • Strings: 4
  • Courses: 4 ( 1 - 1 - 1 - 1)
  • Scale: 650 - 680 mm
Apart from some traditional jazz musicians who sometimes touches the style, I don't know of anybody who actually plays the blues on the plectrum banjo.

That's really a pity, because it should be very well suited for the style. It has a somewhat mellower tone than the five-string banjo, and its tuning lends itself much better to combined chord/melodic playing than the tenor.

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