banjo

musical instrument
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banjo

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 (3,989 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • banjo's instance of is recorded as type of musical instrument[3].
  • banjo is a type of necked, flat-backed, plucked lute[4].
  • banjo's Commons category is recorded as Banjo family instruments[5].
  • banjo's Unicode character is recorded as 🪕[6].
  • banjo's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Banjo[7].
  • banjo's Commons gallery is recorded as Banjo[8].
  • banjo's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • banjo's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • banjo's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[11].
  • banjo's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[12].
  • banjo's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • banjo's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[14].
  • banjo's used by is recorded as banjoist[15].
  • banjo's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 321.322-8[16].
  • banjo's exact match is recorded as http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/02787622-n[17].
  • banjo's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject African diaspora[18].

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Definition and Type

banjo's instance of is recorded as type of musical instrument[3]. banjo is a type of necked, flat-backed, plucked lute[4].

Use and Application

banjo's used by is recorded as banjoist[15].

Why It Matters

banjo ranks in the top 3% of type_of_musical_instrument entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,989 views/month).[2] banjo has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] banjo is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Retrieved . 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.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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