What is the difference between a banjo and a banjitar

It would be nice to be able to tune the 6 th string up to a high G; has anyone tried this, perhaps with a very thin string? Any other suggestions to make it more like a banjo than a guitar? I've done it with an. It works fine. Yeah, I'd go with the 12 string guitar string.

Seems to be your best bet for those high notes. Yes, I've done it. It's six string Vega Tubaphone banjo, tuned dDGDGB with the 6th string 2 octaves above the 5th - so that it plays like a 5-string banjo, but with an added bass string. It's like open C tuning tuned down to G. When tuning the G string if you just go slow once it hits E you can tune it up to G just fine, mine eventually broke but that was after swapping in and out 5 or 6 different bridges and being detuned and retuned quite a few times.

It does help if you cut a new nut for it though with a smaller slot specifically for the high G. Guitar center generally has single strings for sale I think they're around a dollar if you ask them, just pick up a few extra.

But at the risk of being a banjo heretic, I have to ask, why not play it in guitar tuning? My immediate reason for the suggestion is Geoff Muldaur's wonderful rag-blues fingerpicking on the Texas Sheiks cd. It don't get better than that!

Marc, I love your playing and singing with that instrument. Answer to your query: I don't play guitar - never have - never will - and never have developed any facility at all with "guitar tuning".

There's plenty enough of folks there out there who do play guitar, and not nearly enough of us that play banjo, in my opinion. I'm a banjo player - not a guitar player. I don't think of this instrument as a guitar with a banjo head - or a banjo with a guitar neck. To me, it's a six string banjo - with an extra bass string that gives it depth and some bass resonance - but it's a banjo alright.

I converted an old guitar to do this by putting a "spike" actually a screw into the neck junk guitar - nothing lost. They only work well if you are using them much higher up the neck than you usually go however. What is a Banjo? The banjo is a stringed musical instrument of West African origin.

Banjos typically have 4 or 5 strings with about 17 — 22 frets. This frame is the part of instrument that looks like a drum. The banjo found its way to America because of the slave trade in the 19th century. African slaves adapted this instrument in America from African instruments of similar design. Once in America, the modern banjo spread across the entire globe. Initially, many musicians thought of the banjo as a chordal instrument.

In fact, Louis Armstrong featured the banjo in some of his early recordings. Today, most associate the banjo with folk and country music.

However, you will also find this instrument in other genres like rock. What is Banjitar? The banjitar has the body of a banjo and six strings tuned in the standard tuning of a guitar. Banjos with six strings were around in the 19th century. Banjitar Vs. Banjo: Similarities and Differences Quality. Typically tuned CGBD. The tenor banjo is tuned like a mandola or viola. Best for traditional American music like country and bluegrass — it has a very raw sound.

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