Jean-Marc Luisada & Jeanne Moreau - Gnossiennes: No. 1 - Lent (Jeanne Moreau Version)

BANJO (English banjo) - a stringed plucked (plector) instrument. OK. 17 century exported from Zap. Africa to the south. US states, where it was distributed under the name. banger, bonja, banjo. Initially, it had a body in the form of a flat drum open at the bottom with one leather membrane, a long neck without frets and with a head; 4-9 vein strings were pulled on the instrument, one of them was melodic and was pinched with the thumb, the others served as accompaniment.