banjo

/ban-joh/US // ˈbæn dʒoʊ //UK // (ˈbændʒəʊ) //

班卓琴,班杰明,班鸠,班卓

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural ban·jos, ban·joes.
- : a musical instrument of the guitar family, having a circular body covered in front with tightly stretched parchment and played with the fingers or a plectrum.

He soon traded an electric guitar — a Christmas gift that he barely played — for a banjo.
Fascinated by drumming, he took apart a banjo when he was about 12 and used the head as a drum, playing brushes softly in a jazz style.
I loaded my car with the essentials—guitar, banjo, running shoes, backpack, tent, sleeping bag, topo maps, cold-brew coffee apparatus—feeling like I was reentering adulthood.
The twang we hear as emblematic of white country music is actually the direct descendant of black folk music banjo.
Well someone gave that kid a banjo and a Wi-Fi connection and told him to go to town.
In her down time, she plays the banjo in an all-girl band, Loose Gravel.
When he was 11, his father built him a banjo, at first fashioning the head out of groundhog hide.
Before Earl Scruggs, banjo players were not front men, but they were funny.
A banjo lies on top of a piano—hired—and two of the boys take music lessons.
He seemed subdued, and hummed and strummed on his banjo, as if he couldn't get hold of what he wanted to let out.
Bob took the banjo with the air of a martyr and tuned it skilfully.
Every second house in the place was a saloon, and every saloon seemed to have a billiard-table and a banjo player.
The chorus came roaring out and across the street; ceased; and the banjo slid into the next verse.