Joel H.
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to Minstrel Banjo
Not any of the tutors I have access to. Mandolin players used them,
but did not become largely popular until the 1890s. I am interested
in the use of plectrums on guitar. My research leeds me to believe
that they may have come about from the tenor banjo of the late 1910s
+. I seem to remember reading a letter in the Stewart's Journal from
the 1890s where someone wrote about using a zither ring (modern term=
thumb pick) on a guitar and Stewart, in his typical way, blasted
him.
I understand the supposed need for volume, but I just can't wrap my
mind around changing a polyphonic instrument into monophonic, one
would lose all those notes for accompaniment.