What makes guitars and banjoes sound different from each other?
We had serenades, too, on banjoes and old tin pans and whatever you wanted to make a noise.
There was fiddles make from gourds and banjoes from sheep hides.
He waved one leg in time to the hammered refrain, and the banjoes grew louder.
We got in groups in front of the cabins and sang and danced to the music of banjoes until the overseer would come along and make us go to bed.
And then at night, when this throng poured out into the streets to play--fighting, gambling, drinking and carousing, cursing and screaming, laughing and singing, playing banjoes and dancing!
Many "frolics" were given and everyone danced where banjoes were available; also, these resourceful people secured much of their music from an improvised fiddle fashioned from a hand saw.
The cab turned into a street where, in spite of the drizzle, hawkers with their push-carts under flaring, spitting gasoline banjoes were doing a thriving business.