In today’s Academic Minute, Professor Randy Zwally of Messiah College explains the invention of hardware that allows the banjo to be played in and out of tune. Randy Zwally is Director of Guitar ...

In today’s Academic Minute, Messiah College's Randy Zwally explores the invention of hardware that allows the banjo to be played in and out of tune. Zwally is director of guitar studies and senior ...

In today’s Academic Minute, Randy Zwally of Messiah College explains the invention of hardware that allows the banjo to be played in and out of tune. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.

Unless the room is ultra-hip -- meaning, its occupants know something about Don Vappie or Bela Fleck -- banjo gets a bad rap. The new PBS documentary titled "Give Me the Banjo," narrated by Steve ...

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Bluegrass banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs answered a knock at the door of his Nashville home in 1953 to find an eager-looking banjo enthusiast on the porch asking Scruggs to put a set of his special tuner ...