Everything Alt Knows music https://wiki.alt.industries/ 2026-05-06T12:51:35+00:00 Everything Alt Knows https://wiki.alt.industries/ https://wiki.alt.industries/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:favicon.ico text/html 2024-07-28T18:05:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) music:banjo https://wiki.alt.industries/doku.php?id=music:banjo&rev=1722189924&do=diff History The Banjo is an instrument created by ensalved Africians imported to the United States. The construction was an animal skin tacked onto a gourd, with the fretless neck going straight through the gourd. The strings were made from animal gut, and the tuners were basic friction tuners, if having tuners at all. It had a floating bridge. The earliest documented use is by ensalved peoples in the Americas. It descends from similar African gourd integuments that were quite similar.