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| | The guitar and its predecessor, the lute, have a long tradition on the British isles. It's tempting to adapt traditional "classical" guitar techniques to the banjo - especially to the five-stringer and guitar-banjo and a few banjoists have done so. The result is not unlike harp style and very different from the more common fiddle style with lots of bass notes and chords and melodic embelishments rather than triplet/tremolo ornaments. It's easy to claim this way of playing is just as "authentic" as fiddle style, but personally I avoid it most of the time when I'm playing straight Irish dance tunes. But English (and to some degree Scottish) traditional music is a completely different matter.
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