This shamisen, originating in Okinawa, is a banjo-like three-stringed instrument that is played with a plectrum.
With my banjo on my knee.
While working my way through graduate school, I taught five-string banjo in a music store.
The whole Joplin family was musical. Scott's father played the violin. His mother played the banjo. And all the Joplins enjoyed singing together at home.
The resort's website shows images of all three, set to a lively banjo soundtrack.
Never ask a bard to play the banjo.
Before he began to play, Harry tuned up his banjo.
Though the banjo may seem like a very American instrument, it actually came from Africa.
The banjo, a stringed musical instrument, was an African invention brought over with the slaves to the New World.
We had tried to salvage the line because it still had a good banjo connector at one end.