Folk Banjo: Instruments: The five-string banjo: The piccolo banjo

The piccolo banjo



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    Data:
  • Body shape: Round
  • Top: Skin
  • Back: Open or resonator
  • Bridge: Floating
  • Frets: Fixed
  • Strings: 5 (5th string a short "thumb string")
  • Courses: 5 ( 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1)
  • Scale: 330 - 335 mm
A very small five-string banjo.

Older piccolo banjos were sometimes converted banjoleles.

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