Talk:Banjo guitar

Popular in the 1920?

"It was popular in the jazz and swing music of the 1920s" is what i'm taking out and here's why

A 6 string banjo was not popular in the 1920's. I doubt they even existed. A 4 string tenor guitar was popular in the 1920's that was tuned like an 4 string tenor banjo so BANJO players could play the newly popular guitar. I'm taking out the statement because not only is it untrue there is no references for it.--Brian Earl Haines (talk) 20:47, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

You're wrong. You need to check the Wiki main article on Banjo. 6-string banjos were made as early as 1842, and the guitanjo format as early as 1882. Johnny St. Cyr, Django Reinhardt, and Danny Barker all played this instrument back in the 1920s adn 30s, including in some of the big-name bands of Cab Calloway and Benny Carter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.249 (talk) 00:42, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

I don't know if they were POPULAR, but they certainly did exist.

As a matter of fact, there is an example of a 12 string Banjo-Guitar from 1917 known to have survived.

P.S. No mention of the 12 string one here, needs to be added. 2601:602:CD00:1F90:5DBD:D494:7A48:AAF6 (talk) 03:19, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Banjo Guitar or Six String In Popular Music

Although seen by many as a recent hybrid instrument, the six string banjo has a long history & especially gained presence in the Jazz Age era of the 1910s to the 1930s. Many Jazz band guitarists & banjoists utilized the six string banjo including Proto-Blues & Jazz entertainer, Papa Charlie Jackson. The instrument can be heard on his many recordings in the 1920s for companies such as Okeh & Paramount. It is displayed prominently in one of the only photographs we have of the creator of 'Shake That Thing'. Johnny St. Cyr was a popular New Orleans string musician who played with Louis Armstrong & can be heard strumming a six string banjo on the famous Hot Five & Seven sessions. In one of the earliest known photographs of Jazz guitar genius Django Reinhardt he is seen posing with a six string banjo. In more recent years Neil Young has used it on such songs as 'For The Turnstiles' & 'Old King'.

Proposed merge with Guitjo (double-neck)

There doesn't seem to be significant difference between the two instruments, they're both hybrids of banjo and guitar just with different neck styles. Both articles are very short and under-referenced, so why not combine them? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 21:51, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

From what I've found so far, a Banjo guitar is usually based on a banjo, but strung like a guitar, while a guitjo is based on a guitar, but with banjo-like stringing, so similar but opposite. Maybe merging them together in a Guitar-banjo hybrids article would be the way to go. I would need to dig a bit further to make sure that the two terms are used consistently - I've seen at least one banjo-like instrument advertised as a guitjo, and there also appear to be Guitar Banjos [1] and Banjitars. There may not be enough consistency in body style and stringing for any of these to really be meaningful as separate entities. --Michig (talk) 05:58, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

• Neutral - I was asked to comment on this, but I do not have the expertise to do so, so I will remain neutral on this. --Jax 0677 (talk) 13:56, 18 October 2019 (UTC)