Bass banjo

More recently, true bass banjos, tuned EADG and played in conventional horizontal fashion have been introduced.

[6] Other vintage manufacturers of four-string bass banjos include Bacon & Day.

[8] Gibson produced a separate instrument called a "bass banjo" from 1930 to 1933.

[9] The Bassjo, also referred to as the banjo bass in a 2006 article featuring Les Claypool on the cover of Bassplayer Magazine[10] was made by luthier Dan Maloney.

The Bassjo can be heard on Claypool's 2006 album "Of Whales and Woe" on the track Iowan Gal", as well as Primus' "Captain Shiner" from the album Tales from the Punchbowl Gold Tone Music Group produces a commercial version of the bass banjo.

Advertising copy for Stewart 5-string cello, ca. 1898
Gold Tone four-string Cello banjo
A.C. Fairbanks “Whyte Laydie No. 2 in (51 mm) 5-string cello banjo Circa 1903, S/N 22924
1902 A.A. Farland 5-string cello banjo
Five-string cello banjo and a banjeaurine from S.S. Stewart
1929 Gibson Bass Banjo at the American Banjo Museum .