Banjo Music
Banjo Music
A string banjo is an instrument of the lute family, the round body with a circular opening in the back. It consists of a circular frame, currently produced in PVC, which is about a skin stretch (formerly preached today arrested by a mechanism of synthetic glue), a long, thin neck, with frets and strings of gut or metal twisted. Based on several African instruments, was developed in America by black slaves in the seventeenth century, and adopted by itinerant groups of white musicians in the nineteenth century. It is widely used in North American folk music and the groups of bluegrass.Posteriormente was very important in jazz.
There is a universal consensus that the origin of the banjo comes from Africa, brought to the Americas by slaves. The banjo was associated with African culture until about 1840. At that time in history there was a great wave of so-called "minstrel" a kind of musical entertainment with musicians with faces painted white to black with oversized clothes. This often included a minstrel banjoist (besides the fiddle, tambourine and bones) that used the technique of hitting the strings with your nails down, creating a sound strong and violent. This style was called a "stroke" (hit) and was similar to the way that was believed to have been the dig.
In the mid-1860 came a new style, known as a style of guitar, and that more refined techniques of the instrument of the time. This form has a sound more melodious than the style of the beat. During the following 20 years, the style "guitar" gained a huge popularity in the United States and England, especially in the high society of the white population.
A pioneer of this new movement was known as Samuel Swain Stewart (1855-1898), a manufacturer of musical instruments and advertising of Philadelphia.
Earl Scruggs appeared in 1945. a couple of 21 years in the band Bill Monroe & his Bluegrass Boys with his banjo, 5 string that started to revolutionize a new style of playing the instrument, the "3-finger style" based on the known classic style. Earl Scruggs, now with 77 years is considered a legend of the 5-string banjo and is presented in festivals of bluegrass music.
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