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Banjos

Scope note

American plucked chordophones with a long, guitarlike fretted neck and a circular belly of tautly stretched skin, parchment, or plastic against which the bridge is pressed by the strings, varying in number from four to six in different models.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300042013

Narrower Terms used

five-string banjos

Equivalent Terms used

banjo

Created

13yrs ago

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