Manti Messenger | 1928-01-13 | Page 4 | Early Form of Banjo

Early F Form of Banjo The existence of instruments of the lute or guitar kind Implies a certain grade of knowledge and culture among people who know how to stretch strings over o s and to determine the required Intervals by varying the vibrating length of ot the thet t strings Such Instruments found In use by savage or very uncivilized peo pies suggest their introduction through political or religious conquest con com quest by a 0 superior race ruce The Arabs may thus or by trade have bestowed a l guitar instrument on the time negroes of western Africa aD and the time Sene banIa may be r. r ns as Mr h. h Carl Engel suggests the parent of f the American negros negro's banjo