Banjos in a sentence

Wilson will have banjos from Africa and different period banjos from America.

Open-back banjos generally have a mellower tone and weigh less than resonator banjos.

It says that we will not float away to some faraway heaven but that eternity will be found right here on earth, in what the Bible calls a “new heaven and new earth,” a place with bays and banjos, artichokes and art, dandelions and dancing.

Other creations include lap steel guitars, acoustic and electric banjos, mandolins, classical acoustic guitars, classical electric and electric bass, and electric violins.

Vance takes the stage to what is now a familiar sound and the banjos of Merle Haggard's 'America First,' echoing around a hangar-like space in the bowels of Atlanta's Cobb Galleria Center.

Co-presented by One Yellow Rabbit and Lunchbox Theatre, Tomatoes Tried to Kill Me But Banjos Saved My Life runs between Jan.

She's straddling the line between her country and pop career here, and there’s no better way to symbolize that moment than with this song, one that combines AutoTune and banjos … and somehow pulls it off.

The first episode, spanning the 1920s to 1933, charts the origins of the distinctive sound: the union of banjos and fiddles; the array of influences; and the key role of Ralph Peer and his Victor label recordings.

I learned so much watching the Ken Burns’ documentary, particularly how dirt poor some of the singers were and how the isolation of the Tennessee and Kentucky mountain homes brought families together around guitars, mandolins, fiddles and banjos.

Back in America, to the strains of Duelling Banjos, Harris was cajoled into asking the good citizens of Mount Shasta City if they believed in the creature.

In addition to donating 150 instruments, including guitars, banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, violins, drums and portable keyboards, Sun Life has also created a series of videos to assist with the use, care and enjoyment of the instruments.

Banjos: The Tsumura Collection.

Banjos were sometimes made from a discarded guitar neck and a metal pie plate.

Clearly, Lyon & Healy was making fretted string instruments in the 1880s, with Washburn (guitars, mandolins, banjos, and zithers) as their premier line.

Contrabass banjos with either three or four strings have also been made; some of these had headstocks similar to those of bass violins.

Early, African-influenced banjos were built around a gourd body and a wooden stick neck.

He marketed these as "zither" Banjos from his 1869 patent.

He opened a shop in London in 1846, and sold banjos with closed backs and up to seven strings.

Many makers have produced banjos of other scale lengths, and with various innovations.

Oklahoma City is home to the American Banjo Museum, which houses a large collection of highly decorated banjos from the early 20th century and exhibits on the history of the banjo and its place in American history.