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Banjo Origins. Traced back centuries throughout the Middle East and Africa, banjos originated as drums with strings stretched over them and played bowed or plucked.he modern banjo comes from a collaboration of fourth and fifth string banjos. A sixth string version of the banjo was created by William Temlett, one of England's earliest banjo makers.
The story of the banjo itself is a heritage of America and its people: from the black folk in bondage in the South to the forty-niners in the hills of California, from the top hat and tailcoat of Broadway, to the cowboys driving cattle from Texas to Wyoming, from the fraternities of Harvard and Yale in New England, to the cabin in the darkest hollow ...