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4-string banjo

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The 4-string banjo is any one of a number of long-necked lute-like stringed instruments with a hollow resonator body and four strings. [1]

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Almir Guineto

Almir de Souza Serra (12 July 1946 – 5 May 2017), better known by his stage name Almir Guineto, was a Brazilian sambista, singer and songwriter and instrumentalist, working in the genres of samba and pagode.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Banjo music

Banjo music is a genre of music that consists exclusively, or primarily of, the banjo.

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Cavaquinho

The cavaquinho (pronounced in Portuguese) is a small Portuguese string instrument in the European guitar family, with four wire or gut strings.

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Charlie Tagawa

Charlie Tagawa (October 27, 1935 - July 30, 2017) was a Japanese-American musical entertainer, banjoist, and Japanese immigrant.

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Deering Banjo Company

The Deering Banjo Company was started in 1975 by Greg and Janet Deering.

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Eddie Peabody

Edwin Ellsworth Peabody, known as Eddie Peabody (February 19, 1902 – November 7, 1970) was an American banjo player, instrument developer and musical entertainer whose career spanned five decades.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Harry Reser

Harry F. Reser (January 17, 1896 – September 27, 1965) was an American banjo player and bandleader.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Lute

A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Samba

Samba is a Brazilian musical genre and dance style, with its roots in Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions, particularly of Angola and the Congo, through the samba de roda genre of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia, from which it derived.

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String instrument

String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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Timbre

In music, timbre (also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

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Ukulele

The ukulele (from ukulele (oo-koo-leh-leh); variant: ukelele) is a member of the lute family of instruments.

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Vega Company

The Vega Company was a musical instrument manufacturer that started operations in Boston, Massachusetts in 1881.

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Viola

The viola is a string instrument that is bowed or played with varying techniques.

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Wildwood Banjos

Wildwood Banjos is a small manufacturer of high-end banjos located in Bend, Oregon that started in Arcata, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-string_banjo

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