The tuning remained the same as GCGBD unlike the tenor banjo of GDAE (like a mandolin). The long neck banjo and "Whyte Laydie" model evolved from the Vega Company on Stuart Street in Boston.

This banjo was made by an unknown maker in Marengo County, Alabama around 1850-1884. It is a Four-String Fretless Banjo. It was collected in in 1884 in Marengo County, Alabama by Dr. Edward Palmer for ...

The four-string banjo was once rampant in the Bay Area during the 1960s and 1970s with more than 60 banjo groups and places in every corner of the region to enjoy the music.