The earliest banjo was a gourd with two or more long strings, a shorter drone string and no frets.

最初的班卓琴就是有一个葫芦瓢和两根或多根弦拼成，有一根短弦，没有品。

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"There is a serious quality issue no one is talking about, " University of New Mexico's Jan Fawcett frets.

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