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🦋 Lutherie
Scruss built a banjo! A fretless banjo to be specific, with a gourd for a body: a genre of instrument I did not even know existed but which apparently has plenty of history behind it. Here he is playing "Black-eyed Suzy":
More images and recordings at scruss' blog.
posted morning of Sunday, June 5th, 2011
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Curiously, the gourd banjo isn't as old as one might think. While the akonting and the koro sometimes use gourds, they're not really the same instrument. Some very old banjos used calabashes for the body, but they're fragile.
The five-string gourd banjo, as far as I understand it, came into being in the late 20th century from builders such as Clarke Buehling.
posted morning of June 5th, 2011 by scruss
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