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| | Data:- Body shape: Round
- Top: Skin
- Back: Open or resonator
- Bridge: Floating
- Frets: Fixed
- Strings: 4
- Courses: 4 ( 1 - 1 - 1 - 1)
- Scale: 330 - 335 mm
The banjolele has four strings tuned like an ukulele and is the smallest of the banjos. Sometimes you can see older banjoleles with a fifth string added and converted into piccolo banjos.
It may look like a toy, but can be a proper tool for a working musician. Perhaps not a very versatile tool though. All the banjolin's disadvantages apply to an even greater extent to the banjolele, and in addition it has a very limited range of only sligthly more than an octave in first position.
For Irish music it can give some really interesting tonal variety to the rhythm section, and you can get some effective solos out of it to if needed. It's not nearly useful enough for you to consider it as your main Celtic tool, but as a secondary instrument it can be quite useful and - above all - extremely fun to play.
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