banjo

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Examples

• He soon traded an electric guitar — a Christmas gift that he barely played — for a banjo.

• Fascinated by drumming, he took apart a banjo when he was about 12 and used the head as a drum, playing brushes softly in a jazz style.

• I loaded my car with the essentials—guitar, banjo, running shoes, backpack, tent, sleeping bag, topo maps, cold-brew coffee apparatus—feeling like I was reentering adulthood.

• The twang we hear as emblematic of white country music is actually the direct descendant of black folk music banjo.

• Well someone gave that kid a banjo and a Wi-Fi connection and told him to go to town.

• In her down time, she plays the banjo in an all-girl band, Loose Gravel.

• When he was 11, his father built him a banjo, at first fashioning the head out of groundhog hide.

• Before Earl Scruggs, banjo players were not front men, but they were funny.

• A banjo lies on top of a piano—hired—and two of the boys take music lessons.

• He seemed subdued, and hummed and strummed on his banjo, as if he couldn't get hold of what he wanted to let out.

• Bob took the banjo with the air of a martyr and tuned it skilfully.

• Every second house in the place was a saloon, and every saloon seemed to have a billiard-table and a banjo player.

• The chorus came roaring out and across the street; ceased; and the banjo slid into the next verse.