Bluegrass Banjo (large print)
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- Synopsis
- This is an image of a bluegrass banjo seen from the front. It is a fretted musical instrument with five strings, a drum-type head, and a resonator, which makes the vibrations of the strings sound louder. There is a locator dot shown which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up.The round shape of the resonator is in the bottom left of the page. The heads tension ring is inside this. It has screws all around its edge to adjust the tightness of the heads skin.Banjos five strings are fixed to its tailpiece at the bottom left of the resonator. They go up and right over the bridge to the long neck of the banjo. The neck has pieces of wire fixed across its fingerboard, at right angles to the strings: these are the frets. Some of the frets have position markers inlaid into the fingerboard.There is a tuning peg part of the way along the top edge of the neck for the fifth string. The peg head is in the top right of the image with pegs for tuning the other four strings.The banjo is played by pressing the strings onto the frets to change the notes with the left hand fingers, and using the right hand fingers to pluck and strum the strings.
- Copyright:
- 2011
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Publisher:
- RNIB
- Date of Addition:
- 04/26/17
- Copyrighted By:
- RNIB
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Music
- Submitted By:
- Caroline Walker
- Proofread By:
- N/A
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.