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- Body shape: Lute
- Top: Flat
- Back: Flat
- Frets: Fixed
- Strings: 5
- Courses: 5 ( 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1)
- Scale: 650 - 680 mm
The banjola is a five-stringed instrument (with a shortened fifth string) tuned and played like a five-string banjo.
The banjola was introduced by Gold Tone, but similar instruments called banjo-lute or, confusingly enough banjo-mandolin or mandoline-banjo have been around since the late 19th Century, and during the 1920s there was also a fivestring version of the banjo harp which - although a different instrument - was based on much of the same basic ideas.