It's America's Instrument!

Even though we have good evidence of banjos with drone strings being brought over or created by slaves from Africa in the 1700s and 1800s, the 5-string banjo as we know it today is vastly different from it's African ancestor. With it's tone ring, resonator, drum head, metal strings, frets, etc., truly, it is an American invention!

You can connect to your roots

Bluegrass is especially an authentic, back-home way of thinking. It places high value on grass-roots things that are real, honest and clean.

It's the Hot-Rod of musical instruments.

By that I mean that it is the most easily modified of musical instruments. Did you know you can take a banjo apart; take the neck off; replace the drum head and tone ring; adjust the neck to set the string action, and so much more. You can really tweak it to get just the sound you like, from a deep mellow voice, to a bright, clear ringing! That's a lot of the reason why an experienced player can hear a recording and make an excellent guess as to who (among famous players, at least) is playing!