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Thursday, 25 July 2019

Custom Made BanjosBanjos More Than The Musicality

By Timothy Edwards


We all have our favorite things to do just to entertain ourselves especially to pass time. One of mine is to listen and learn how to produce and create sounds. This is made possible with the different kinds of musical instruments made available for use. One that sparks my very interest on this matter is the custom made banjos.

These Banjos has been hitting the online community recently. But before any thing else I will be sharing to you the history of this lovely instrument. Banjo is just one of the few instrument that is rich in history and in cultural relativity. It is one tool that has made a great impact to the lives of the people in West Africa.

This instrument is technically made out of a hollowed gourd, a wooden neck and horse hair which is used for strings and any other alternative materials that is best fit to produce a remarkable sound. Being one of the sixty powerful lute instruments, the Banjo is also remarkable in its own way.

In the 1940s, before the birth of the first guitars as its official replacement. The Banjo, was an instrument that is also used as a four string tool which helped to popularize the jazz age which was known as the newest society craze way back. Mentioning this, I think it is just fitting to call this string accompaniment as the father of the first guitars.

During the Jazz Age in the 1940s. The Banjo was made into a tool that brought about the popularization of the new society craze of its four-string replica. It took its time and most folk and country singers followed the trend by always using the banjo in every single performances they had. It did not take long until the instrument was replaced by the guitars of today.

This string instrument is something that I find very easy to learn and to even play. It gives you a very defined raw metallic rusty sound that is very different and organic to that of a guitars vibe. Mostly, you can find some of its uses in most folk and country music that are recently produced.

Coming back to the modern times, the banjo may have been underrated but its never forgotten and this gets me excited. These days, shops are offering custom made banjos for every users liking. It is more like a Do It Yourself Banjo in a way. You pick your own materials, design it as you would wish, assemble and done. You got yourself a banjo costumed to your liking.

I would say that this stunt in promoting Banjos again in the market is really something we could look forward to. Not only that we are preserving just a part of a culture but we are advancing in a length-waive of an empowered generation that is aware of an advocacy and of cultural musicality.

It is extremely exciting to hear more. I wish to have more promotions of ethnic instruments in any ways possible such as these as an example. The next time you think of learning an instrument do not forget to bring yourself to the nearest shop that offers you their custom made banjos.




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