It is said that Joel Walker Sweeney of Virginia may have created the "5-string" banjo by adding a fifth string (thumb string) with a peg mounted halfway up the neck of the banjo. It is disputed at ...

Here’s why. It has a guitar neck and guitar strings tuned just like a guitar, yet it sounds like a banjo. Which means that if you can play the guitar, then you can play the banjo. Well, almost. In ...

The Mastertone Classic Banjo (£929) recreates the Gibson RB-3 Mastertone five-string banjo from the 1930s with a mahogany resonator ... Solid maple back and sides, a solid Sitka spruce top, and a ...