The three most popular tunings are standard, Irish and Chicago. Standard tenor tuning, from low to high, is C G D A, so it’s in tuned in fifths, like the tenor banjo, mandolin and violin.

The tuning remained the same as GCGBD unlike the tenor banjo of GDAE (like a mandolin). The long neck banjo and "Whyte Laydie" model evolved from the Vega Company on Stuart Street in Boston.

Most players use a guitar-style pick between thumb and forefinger to play the tenor banjo. Six-string banjos were first developed well over a hundred years ago, and since then have gone through ...

This banjo is an Ambassador Supremus in The Whirle range (registration number 450220). It is a 19 fret tenor banjor with a Pyxe tailpiece and Pancake tuning gears ...