Banjo Giganto

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How about some banjo frivolity for a Wednesday afternoon? Here is a YouTube clip featuring a bass banjo.

These were not too uncommon in the 1920s when banjo bands and orchestras enjoyed their brief window of popularity. They filled the role of an upright bass, with a bass scale neck and fingerboard mounted to a very large banjo body.

The banjo that ate New York?

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