7.7.19

Custom Made Banjos And The Modern Market

By Timothy Edwards


Whatever it is that you have in mind. Nothing beats a melodious adventure in West Africa. West Africa has a very rich history and culture and up to date they have a wide and vast choices of musical instruments that we could always choose to learn any day. Today, I am very interested with one thing and it is their custom made banjos.

These Banjos has been hitting the online community recently. But before any thing else I will be sharing to you the history of this lovely instrument. Banjo is just one of the few instrument that is rich in history and in cultural relativity. It is one tool that has made a great impact to the lives of the people in West Africa.

This instrument is technically made out of a hollowed gourd, a wooden neck and horse hair which is used for strings and any other alternative materials that is best fit to produce a remarkable sound. Being one of the sixty powerful lute instruments, the Banjo is also remarkable in its own way.

In the 1940s, before the birth of the first guitars as its official replacement. The Banjo, was an instrument that is also used as a four string tool which helped to popularize the jazz age which was known as the newest society craze way back. Mentioning this, I think it is just fitting to call this string accompaniment as the father of the first guitars.

During the Jazz Age in the 1940s. The Banjo was made into a tool that brought about the popularization of the new society craze of its four-string replica. It took its time and most folk and country singers followed the trend by always using the banjo in every single performances they had. It did not take long until the instrument was replaced by the guitars of today.

The guitar took place right after Banjos reign. It was exactly the replacement. In comparison, the guitar was way harder to use and needed much more grip than that of the banjo. The Banjo may have been softer in sound and is more organic and rustic but it has the capacity to produce a greater country effect that the guitar could not provide.

Underestimated might have been the term used by most people of the Banjo but what they do not know is of its wide contribution to the country and folk scene. It has also a great contribution to the singers who had made an impact as they are performing with their banjos on the stage.

I would say that this stunt in promoting Banjos again in the market is really something we could look forward to. Not only that we are preserving just a part of a culture but we are advancing in a length-waive of an empowered generation that is aware of an advocacy and of cultural musicality.

Loving how learning this instrument is relative to knowing an entire history and culture more importantly knowing that it brings me closer to a nation. I can not simply wait to uncover more and learn more of such treasures. I will totally have one to keep for myself, such wonderful custom made banjos.




About the Author: