American Banjo Museum
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The American Banjo Museum in Oklahoma City is dedicated to the history of the banjo. The museum's exhibits document the rise of the banjo from its arrival in North America via the Atlantic slave trade
American Banjo Museum
Selection of Jazz-Age banjos from the permanent exhibits of the American Banjo Museum. Foreground is an Epiphone Recording Emperor banjo from 1930. The ornate decoration and gold-plating is typical of Jazz-Age banjos.
Prewar Gibson banjos: Gibson RB-7 (1938) banjo and Gibson RB-4 (1929) banjo.
The Banjo Lesson was painted by Henry Ossawa Tanner in 1893 in Philadelphia.
Mandolin-banjo
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The mandolin-banjo is a hybrid instrument, combining a banjo body with the neck and tuning of a mandolin. It is a soprano banjo. It has been independently invented in more than one country, variously
Two styles of mandolin-banjo, showing a large and small head, with a full size, four-string banjo (bottom)
L-R - Banjo-mandolin, standard mandolin, 3-course mandolin, Tenor mandola
A banjolin with single strings like a violin and a mandolin fretboard
A Vega mandolin-banjo c. 1920 with four pairs of strings