Banjo

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The Five-String Banjo has a circular body and a long fingerboard. It has a stretched plastic, tambourine-shaped belly, and a wooden soundchamber attached at the back. You play the banjo by plucking the strings with your fingers or with a plectrum. Banjos often feature in ragtime, bluegrass, and traditional jazz music.

Family
Strings
Pitch range
Two-and-a-half octaves.
Material
Wooden body, parchment or plastic skin, and gut or metal strings.
Size
11 in (28 cm) in diameter.
Origins
The modern banjo may have evolved from an instrument used by West African slaves in the "New World" (the American continent) in the 17th century.
Classification
Chordophone: an instrument that produces its sound by the vibration of strings.
And also...
There is a theory that the banjo was invented by slaves on plantations in America. It was created by putting a stick through a drum and then adding strings.

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