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- PensonStringWerks - Custom banjos built to order, specializing in 5-string bluegrass resonator banjos and open back 5-string dowel banjos. Tips on banjo set-up, getting started, installing 5th string railroad spikes, plus links.
- The Irish Banjo - A site for the banjo in Irish music with especial emphasis on the Irish tenor banjo.
- Stewart-MacDonald - Banjo repair and maintenance, including hard-to-find tools and parts. Banjo-building kit.
- Tom Adams and Adams County Banjo - Tom Adams, IBMA 2002 Banjo Player of the Year, news, bio, banjo tablature books, bluegrass CDs, workshop and tour schedule, info on the BNL column Adams County Banjo, mp3s.
- FancyBanjo - Selling old-time, vintage 5-String, tenor, ukulele and mandolin Banjos, as well as new banjos and banjo kits.
- Banjo Pete's 100% Vagabundo Site - Banjo Pete Nutting's banjo playing site.
- Banjo Tablature Archive - Original and transcribed Classical, Bluegrass, and Jazz tablature for the five-string banjo.
- Home Made Banjo - How to make a playable, homemade open-back banjo. Links to other homemade banjos and musical instruments.
- Gamebits - Review and comparison to Mario64 by Ken Gagne, score 9/10. "At its core, Banjo-Kazooie is a clone, but the improvements and additions make it an excellent title in itself."
- BANJO-L - Subscription and posting instructions, performer directory, links, instrument listings, stolen instrument notices and an index of 5-string banjo tunings.
Wikipedia Articles
- Banjolele - The banjolele (brand name; sometimes banjo ukulele or banjo uke) is a four-stringed musical instrument with a banjo-type body and a neck with (typically) sixteen frets (shorter than a banjo, but longer than a ukulele). "Banjolele," sometimes also spelled "banjelele" or "banjulele" is a generic nickname given to the instrument, which was derived from ...
- Banjo-Tooie - Banjo-Tooie is a platform and action-adventure hybrid video game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo in 2000 for the Nintendo 64 as a part of the Banjo-Kazooie series. The game is the sequel of Banjo-Kazooie.
- Banjo clock - The banjo clock, or more properly the banjo timepiece, is an American wall clock with a banjo-shaped case. It was invented by Simon Willard, originally of Grafton, Massachusetts, later of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and patented in 1802.
- Banjo (samba) - The samba banjo is a brazilian instrument which is derived from the cavaquinho, especially associated with a samba subgenre called pagode. The samba banjo was first introduced by sambista Almir Guineto in the late 1970's and early 1980's, attending on one hand the necessity for a louder acoustic instrument similar to the cavaquinho, and on the other the drive for innovation.
- Banjo-Kazooie - Banjo-Kazooie is a platform and action-adventure hybrid video game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo in 1998 for the Nintendo 64. The game is the inaugural release in the Banjo-Kazooie series.