Banjo Boya's History of the Banjo

Translated by Google, arranged and illustrated by Banjo Banjar.

As for the roots of the string instrument which stretches the skin on the torso
thousands years there is Egypt before.
Naturally it can think the thing which is in Africa before Egypt.



The musical instrument which has the torso
which even presently stretches the skin on the skull of the animal
exists in Africa.



Those which cross to America from Egypt
are the banjo,



those which Middle and Near East
- India - China - Okinawa - Japan
are the samisen.

In the American new world the African black
who is accompanied as the slave
made the musical instrument which has been repelled at the home
in the new world.



And the musical instrument of the European white
the guitar and the mandolin
with it fuses delicately
and prototype of the present banjo is completed.



It has meant that the white, Joel Walker Sweeney
made the first modern musical instrument complete in 1831.
That musical instrument is retained in the Los Angeles historical museum.



(Presently, the musical instrument of Sweeney
is the first modern banjo,
it is assumed.
it is the mistake)