Editing Banjo (section)

===Low banjos===
[[File:Cello banjo from Gold Tone.jpg|thumb|left|100px|Cello banjo from Gold Tone]]
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in vogue in plucked-string instrument ensembles – guitar orchestras, [[mandolin orchestra]]s, banjo orchestras – was when the instrumentation was made to parallel that of the string section in symphony orchestras. Thus, "violin, viola, 'cello, bass" became "mandolin, mandola, mandocello, mandobass", or in the case of banjos, "banjolin, banjola, banjo cello, bass banjo". Because the range of pluck-stringed instrument generally is not as great as that of comparably sized bowed-string instruments, other instruments were often added to these plucked orchestras to extend the range of the ensemble upwards and downwards.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}

The banjo cello was normally tuned C2-G2-D3-A3, one octave below the tenor banjo like the cello and mandocello. A five-string cello banjo, set up like a bluegrass banjo (with the short fifth string), but tuned one octave lower, has been produced by the Goldtone company.<ref>{{cite web  |url=http://www.goldtone.com/products/details/w/instrument/374/CEB-5 |title=CEB-5 {{pipe}} Gold Tone Music Group |publisher=Goldtone.com |date=27 November 2015 |access-date=31 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417124803/http://www.goldtone.com/products/details/w/instrument/374/CEB-5 |archive-date=17 April 2015 }}</ref>

[[File:1930's Gibson bass banjo ad.jpg|thumb|140px|Bass banjo]]
Bass banjos have been produced in both upright bass formats and with standard, horizontally carried banjo bodies. Contrabass banjos with either three or four strings have also been made; some of these had headstocks similar to those of bass violins. Tuning varies on these large instruments, with four-string models sometimes being tuned in 4ths like a bass violin (E1-A1-D2-G2) and sometimes in 5ths, like a four-string cello banjo, one octave lower (C1-G1-D2-A2).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/photo/contra-bass-banjo?xg_source=activity |title=Contra bass banjo – Minstrel Banjo |publisher=Minstrelbanjo.ning.com |date=21 April 2011 |access-date=31 January 2016}}</ref>