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Data:- Body shape: Round
- Top: Flat
- Back: Resonator
- Bridge: Floating
- Frets: Fixed
- Strings: 4 or 5 (5th string a short "thumb string")
- Courses: 4 or 5 ( 1 or none - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1)
Essentially a banjo with the skin head replaced by a wooden top. The banjo harp seems to have been invented by Paramount during the 1920s, although other kinds of wood top banjos existed much earlier than that.
Paramount made a fivestring banjo harp version, a fourstring tenor harp and probably versions matching the other banjo sizes common at that time as well.
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