In order to shop on this Web store, you must have cookies enabled. For instructions on how to enable cookies, please see the help section of your browser. Once cookies are enabled please refresh the current page. The sound of the 5th string. Defines the 5 string banjo. Our 5th string capo maximizes the banjos sound potential. Enhances the sustain and timbre. NO sound deadening plastic polymer. No holes to drill in the banjo neck.

I hope I can shed light on differences between current and older banjo playing styles by explaining the method by which most older mountain banjoists learned to play, and then contrasting this with the way most people learn to play today. Diversity in old time banjo playing styles is being lost and the different learning methods help explain why this is occurring. Old timers in East Kentucky learned to play by emulation.

Boy does that sound like fun.