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banjo

stringed musical instrument
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Summary

banjo is a type of musical instrument[1]. banjo ranks in the top 3% of type of musical instrument entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,452 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: necked, flat-backed, plucked lute[3]
  • Commons category: Banjo family instruments[4]
  • Unicode character: 🪕[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Banjo[6]
  • Commons gallery: Banjo[7]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Riemann's Music Dictionary[10], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12], New International Encyclopedia[13]
  • Used by: banjoist[14]
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 321.322-8[15]
  • Exact match: http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/02787622-n[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject African diaspora[17]

Why It Matters

banjo has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] banjo is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → stringed musical instrument
    P14470 → Objects/Banjo
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Objects/Banjo, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  2. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0005833-banjo
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0005833-banjo, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Q118898940
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 3696, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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