

Dink Roberts (1894-1989).
John Snipes (1899-1983).
Elizabeth Cotten (1893-1987), who was left-handed, adapted both banjo and guitar by simply turning them upside-down.
Rhiannon Giddens’s version of “Georgie Buck”:
Giddens’s mentor, banjo player Odell Thompson (1911-1994), with his cousin, fiddler Joe Thompson (1918-2012).
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The banjo as a genteel parlor instrument: Plink-a-Pong, a painting by Tom Roberts (1893)

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