page_title: Banjo
hierarchical_section_title: Banjo
caption_attribution_description: Tenorbanjo des deutschen Herstellers "Hopf" (vermutlich 60er Jahre) mit hinter dem Steg aufgeschraubten Dämpfer (eigenes Foto)
context_page_description: The banjo is a string instrument, that was first played by African slaves in the United States a few hundred years ago. The idea came from other African instruments.
  The name banjo may have come from a Kimbundu word: mbanza, but it could have also come from a Senegambian word for the bamboo stick used for the banjo's neck.
context_section_description: The banjo is a string instrument, that was first played by African slaves in the United States  a few hundred years ago. The idea came from other African instruments.  
  The name banjo may have come from a Kimbundu word: mbanza, but it could have also come from a Senegambian word for the bamboo stick used for the banjo's neck.
caption: A four-string banjo
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