The guitjo or banjitar or ganjo is a six-string banjo
Banjo
The banjo is a stringed instrument developed by Slavery in the United States Africans in the United States, adapted from several African instruments.... with the neck of a guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist.... . It is tuned like a guitar and can be played by guitarists who desire the sound of a banjo. It was popular in the jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions.... and swing
Swing (genre)
Swing music, also known as swing jazz or simply swing, is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and had solidified as a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States.... music of the 1920s.
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The guitjo or banjitar or ganjo is a six-string banjo
Banjo
The banjo is a stringed instrument developed by Slavery in the United States Africans in the United States, adapted from several African instruments.... with the neck of a guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist.... . It is tuned like a guitar and can be played by guitarists who desire the sound of a banjo. It was popular in the jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions.... and swing
Swing (genre)
Swing music, also known as swing jazz or simply swing, is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and had solidified as a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States.... music of the 1920s.
Norman Blake is a Grammy Award-nominated instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter. In a career spanning more than 50 years Blake has played in a number of folk music and Country music groups....
Old Crow Medicine Show is an old-time music string band based in Nashville, Tennessee. Their music has been called Bluegrass music, Americana , and alt-country, in addition to old-time....
Steve James may refer to:* Steve James , American producer and director* Steve James , English cricketer and journalist* Steve James , English snooker player...
Harry Manx is a musician who blends blues, folk music, and Hindustani classical music. He was born in the Isle of Man where he spent his childhood, and now lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia, Canada....
Wisconsin native John McCutcheon is an United States of America folk music singer and multi-instrumentalist who has produced over twenty-five albums since the 1970s....
Harvey Reid is a musician living in Maine. He won the 1981 National Fingerpicking Guitar Competition and the 1982 International Autoharp competition. He has 19 records available from Woodpecker Records....
John Sebastian is an United States songwriter and harmonica player. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
Papa Charlie Jackson was an early United States bluesman and songster. He played a hybrid Guitar Banjo and ukulele, his sound recording and reproduction career beginning in 1924....
John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
Lloyd Edward Elwyn Robertson , better known as Ed Robertson, is the lead singer, as well as a guitarist and songwriter in the band , Barenaked Ladies.... of Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies is a Juno Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated Canada alternative rock band. The band is composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, Tyler Stewart, and formerly Andy Creeggan and Steven Page....
Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
Mark Chris Butler is the Australian Labor Party representative for the electoral division of Division of Port Adelaide in north-western Adelaide, South Australia as of the Australian federal election, 2007, succeeding prior Labor MP Rod Sawford.... of Claddagh
Keith Lionel Urban is an Australian Grammy Award- and ARIA Award-winning country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States....
Larry "Ler" LaLonde is a guitarist who currently plays in Primus along with Les Claypool and Tim Alexander. He has also played with Possessed , Blind Illusion, No Forcefield, and the Frank Zappa tribute band "Caca".... of the funk-metal band Primus
Primus (band)
Primus is an United States Rock music band currently composed of singer and bass guitar Les Claypool, guitarist Larry LaLonde, and drummer Tim Alexander....
Brian Patrick Carroll, better known as Buckethead, is an American musician and songwriter. He has released 25 solo albums and performed on over 50 more....
Jean-Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt was a Belgian Gypsy jazz guitarist.One of the first prominent European jazz musicians, Reinhardt remains one of the most renowned jazz guitarists due to his innovative and distinctive playing....
John Butler may refer to:*John Butler , General Manager in the National Football League*John Butler , catcher in Major League Baseball from 1901?1907... of John Butler Trio
John Butler Trio
The John Butler Trio is an Eclecticism in music world music/jam band from Australia led by guitarist and vocalist John Butler . Two of the band's albums, Three and Living 2001-2002 , have gone platinum in Australia and reached the top ten of the Australian album charts in those years....
Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis, was a blues and gospel music singer and guitarist. His unique Fingerstyle guitar style influenced many other artists and his students in New York City included Stefan Grossman, David Bromberg, Roy Book Binder, Woody Mann, Nick Katzman, Dave Van Ronk, Tom Winslow, and Ernie Hawkins....
The Subways are an England alternative rock band. Their debut album, Young For Eternity, was released on 4 July 2005 in the UK and February 14, 2006 in the U.S....
Danny Barker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Barker New Orleans Jazz Musician
Johnny St.Cyr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_St._Cyr http://www.jazzbanjo.com/jbartist/artists/jstcyr.htm New Orleans Jazz Musician
Sam McG(h)ee Early Tennessee Folk / Country Musician
Clancy Hayes Jazz Musician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clancy_Hayes
A double-necked guitjo is a Acoustic guitar, Fretted instrument, stringed, musical instrument that has two necks attached to a single body, generally with 14-strings, seven strings on each neck....
