Banjo, Mandolin, Harmonium, Guitar & Drums Performance by Freelance Whales: Rain or Shine

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Banjo:
The banjo is a four-, five- or (occasionally) six-stringed
instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame
or cavity as a resonator, called the head.
The membrane, or head, is typically made of plastic,
although animal skin is still occasionally but rarely used,
and the frame is typically circular.
Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans
in America, adapted from African instruments of similar design.
The banjo is frequently associated with country, folk,
Irish traditional and bluegrass music.
Historically, the banjo occupied a central place in African
American traditional music, before becoming popular in
the minstrel shows of the 19th century.
The banjo, with the fiddle, is a mainstay of American
old-time music. It is also very frequently used in
Traditional Jazz.
Mandolin:
A mandolin (Italian: mandolino pronounced;
literally "small mandola”)
is a musical instrument in the lute family and is usually
plucked with a plectrum or "pick”.
It commonly has four courses of doubled metal strings tuned
in unison (8 strings), although five (10 strings)
and six (12 strings) course versions also exist.
The courses are normally tuned in a succession of perfect fifths.
It is the soprano member of a family that includes the mandola,
octave mandolin, mandocello and mandobass.
Harmonium:
The harmonium is also known as peti or baja.
Harmonium is popular to the present day,
and the harmonium remains an important instrument
in many genres of Indian music. For example, it is a staple
of vocal North Indian classical music concerts.
It is commonly found in Indian homes.
Though derived from the designs developed in France,
the harmonium was developed further in India in unique ways,
such as addition of drone stops and a scale-changing mechanism.
The hand pumped Harmonium required one hand to pump
they were more portable and comfortable when played on the floor.
Why the hand pumped Harmonium is so popular in India?
Indian music has no chords, one hand can be free to pump
and sitting on the floor to perform is very natural to India Music player. Also it is easier to perform than Sitar.
Guitar :
The guitar is a popular musical instrument classified as
a string instrument with anywhere from 4 to 18 strings,
usually having 6. The sound is projected either acoustically
or through electrical amplification.
It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings
with the right hand while fretting (or pressing against the fret)
the strings with the left hand.
The guitar is a type of chordophone,
traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut,
nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other
chordophones by its construction and tuning.
The modern guitar was preceded by thegittern,
the vihuela, the four-course Renaissance guitar,
and the five-course baroque guitar, all of which contributed
to the development of the modern six-string instrument.
Electric guitars, introduced in the 1930s, use an amplifier
that can electronically manipulate and shape the tone.
Early amplified guitars employed a hollow body,
but a solid body was eventually found more suitable,
as it was less prone to feedback.
Electric guitars have had a continuing profound
influence on popular culture.
Drum:
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical
instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system,
it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane,
called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and
struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a drum stick,
to produce sound. There is usually a resonance head on the
underside of the drum, typically tuned to a slightly lower pitch than
the top drumhead. Other techniques have been used to cause
drums to make sound, such as the thumb roll.
Drums are the world's oldest and most ubiquitous musical
instruments, and the basic design has remained virtually
unchanged for thousands of years.
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