![]() the slaves) is the Banjar, which they brought hither from Africa.”īanjo was the instrument widely used in American folk music until after the depression of 1929, when historians remarked that its happy notes were replaced by the more sombre notes of the guitar. The Moors of West Africa, the Mauritanians, the so-called Negros who had been forcibly brought to the Americas subsequently re-created the Banjo, this West African musical instrument which is very similar to the North African Moorish guitarro.Īccording to Thomas Jefferson in 1781: “The instrument proper to them (i.e. Before the first modern Europe was born, before any of the famous million dollar fiddle manufacturers were ever conceived, fiddles, the famous violins, have been created and used widely right across the African continent.įiddles probably came into Europe by way of the waves of Moorish incursions which implanted their populations and culture in the European landscape, ages ago.īanjo is a musical instrument which had was invented and widely used in ancient Mauritania, the Sahel and the Coast of Guinea. These traditional fiddles come from stone-age Africa. In Ethiopia and Eritrea, one finds similar traditional fiddles that are played exactly like the violin and which produce similar sounds. Horsehair strings are suspended on a bridge. Snakeskin covers a gourd bowl to create a membrane head similar to that of a banjo. The Goje is a one string fiddle from Nigeria. ![]() The image below is from a church in Kiev called St Sophia Cathedral
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