0 a stringed musical instrument with a long neck and a hollow circular body --
1 a musical instrument with four or five strings and a body like a drum that is played by pulling at the strings with the fingers or a small piece of plastic --
These techniques are both idiomatic to the banjo in all styles, and their sound is characteristic of bluegrass.
Scruggs is widely considered the most influential player of the bluegrass banjo who ever lived.
Open back banjos are normally used for clawhammer and frailing, while those used for bluegrass have the back covered with a resonator.
Lucassen plays a wide variety of instruments: his main instruments are guitar and keyboards, however he also plays bass, banjo and many others.
Grean is also a talented multi-instrumentalist; he plays guitar, bass, lap steel, banjo, and keyboards on the album.
The instrumentation usually consisted of cornet, trombone, clarinet, guitar or banjo, piano, tuba or double bass, and drums.
He is a player of the harmonica, concertina, banjo and jaw harp.
In 2005, the band solidified its current instrumentation including guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass, and drums.
