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I'm going to start the controversy. The Banjo. The banjo as a concept or type of instrument is very old and was introduced into this country by African slaves. However, the development of the instrument we recognize today as a modern banjo was made here in a America. The details are a bit murky on who did what and when. He can take credit perhaps for popularizing the use of a fifth string. But for today the important thing is, it happened in America.
The Ukulele. The ukulele was originally the machete, a Portuguese instrument brought by immigrants to Hawaii. But the modern ukulele that has achieved worldwide popularity evolved and matured on Hawaii, the 50th State of these United States. There are almost too many musical types that originated here to enumerate. A good list. See N. ELP prog-rock in general. On a lesser note.
Benjamin Franklin invented The Glass Harmonica. An incredible sounding instrument which you can find examples of on youtube. None of American music as it happened would have without this.
Today the banjo is enormously popular around the world, particularly the five-string form played in bluegrass and other forms of folk and country music. Basses come in all shapes and sizes including the one-string washtub bass found in jug bands, the four-string acoustic standup or "bull fiddle" favored by bluegrass and rockabilly bands, and the electric four and five strings used in most contemporary country.
A precursor to the steel guitar, the Dobro was invented by the Dopyera Brothers in the s and modeled after the Hawaiian "slack" or resonator guitar. A twangy cousin to the slide guitar, the Dobro is played face up with a series of finger picks and a metal bar which is used to fret strings. Jerry Douglas and Mike Auldridge Seldom Scene, Chesapeake are today's acknowledged masters of the Dobro, both using pyrotechnics and an enlarged musical palette to introduce the instrument to a wider audience.
The drums were not a part of the original instrument configuration used in country music. A contemporary drum or "trap" set usually consists of a bass or "kick" drum, a snare, tom-toms, cymbals and a set of "sticks" with which to hit the drum "heads.
Drums were scorned by early country musicians as being "too loud" and "not pure"—so much so, in fact, one story has Bob Wills ' drummer being forced to play behind a curtain at the Grand Ole Opry in December By the early s, however, it was rare that a country band didn't have a drummer. First brought to America from the British Isles, the fiddle has always been one of the principal instruments in country music.
Recorded country music began when Texas fiddler A. Beginning in , sales of recordings by another fiddler, John Carson of Atlanta, led to the active exploitation of white Southern rural music by the phonograph industry. The fiddle lies at the heart of many country music styles. Bob Wills and Milton Brown built the western swing sound around the fiddle. Although fiddlers were rare in mainstream jazz, many young fiddlers in Texas and Oklahoma in the s and s eagerly listened to and took musical ideas from jazz violinists Joe Venuti, Stuff Smith, and Stephane Grappelli.
Cecil Brower, J. Bill Monroe likewise put the fiddle at the center of the bluegrass sound. Monroe was greatly influenced by the music of his uncle, Pendleton Vandiver, who was a master old-time fiddler from Kentucky.
Monroe not only recorded many tunes that he learned from his Uncle Pen but also wrote dozens of new tunes in the fiddle-tune mold.
Mark O'Connor, a prodigiously talented multi-instrumentalist who is best known as a fiddler, dominated the CMA Instrumentalist of the Year Award competition throughout the s. Fiddling had existed in the United States for nearly three centuries prior to the beginning of country music as a commercially popular music genre, and has its roots in European dance music traditions. The word "fiddle," in several variant spellings, has been used to designate various bowed stringed instruments since the twelfth century, and when the violin emerged in the middle of the sixteenth century, it acquired the name "fiddle" as an informal appellation.
In its early years the violin was used primarily as a dance instrument, and it has maintained this function in a wide range of folk music traditions throughout Europe and North America. Early violinists playing for dancers probably performed a preexisting body of dance music; the "modern" fiddle tune repertoire is rooted in the body of tunes and tune types that crystallized throughout the British Isles and Ireland, and in places settled by people from these areas, in the mid- to late eighteenth century.
However, only a minority of the tunes current among American fiddlers can be traced directly to Old World antecedents, and it is probably incorrect to view American fiddling in terms of an imported tradition that developed its own characteristics in the New World. Rather, independent development of local styles seems to have occurred more or less simultaneously in many different parts of the English-speaking world, including various regions of the United States.
Fiddle tunes typically consist of two distinct melodic sections, each of which is played twice in an AABB pattern for one complete execution of the tune. The tune is repeated several times in a performance, sometimes with variations. In the context of a bluegrass or western swing band, players of other instruments will also take turns at playing the melody, or in improvising solos based on it.
Country fiddling reflects a considerable amount of cultural synthesis. For example, the sliding into and out of notes—one of the distinguishing features of Southern fiddling—is generally thought to be a stylistic trait derived from African-American music.
Popular fiddlers such as Arthur Smith and Chubby Wise brought this bluesy trait to commercial country music. The Cajun music of French Louisiana has long had a tangential, but persistent, relationship to mainstream country music, with fiddling being perhaps the most distinctive Cajun music element that has influenced country.
Aspects of repertoire and style of the German, Czech, and Hispanic communities in the Southwest have been incorporated into the fiddling of that region and, by extension, into regional commercial country styles. After delta blues, country music was the first style of popular music based around the guitar, and the prominent guitar lines in the recordings of Jimmie Rodgers and Carter Family helped bring the guitar forward in the early thirties to become the dominant stringed instrument of the twentieth century.
The guitar had evolved in Europe by from a lute-like instrument, with paired strings, into its present form with six single strings. It was refined in America into two major styles: the flat-top, perfected by by C. Prior to the s the guitar had been a refined parlor instrument that was overshadowed in American popular music by chronologically the lute, minstrel banjo, mandolin, and tenor banjo.
By the end of the s, however, players were finding the guitar to be more versatile and better suited for the new music than the banjo. The first viable electric guitar was introduced by the Rickenbacker company in , giving guitarists the volume necessary to compete with other instruments in a big band setting.
In Leo Fender of Fullerton, California, introduced an electric guitar with a body of solid wood that produced greater sustain and a sharper tone than the traditional arched-top design.
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