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Barbara 7-string banjo (44) RE: 7-string banjo 29 Jan 11

I've just been reading a history of pre-war Washburn instruments and the Lyon and Healy company of Chicago Ill. and in it the author states that Washburn produced a 6 string banjo as a way to interest guitar players in playing banjo. The idea was it would be tuned to traditional guitar tuning to make the transition easier.
Is that how the 7 string ones are tuned? Six in trad guitar tuning and then the side peg?
Blessings,
Barbara

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