The Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar (BMG) movement is a music genre based on the family of fretted stringed instruments played with a plectrum or fingers, with or without fingerpicks. The instruments include the

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

and

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

. This became popular in the US in the late 19th century and into the 20th century. It fell from favour in the 1930s but there is still an organised movement in the UK where the ''BMG'', founded in 1903, is the country's oldest music periodical still publishing. In the United States, a major magazine for the movement was ''The Cadenza'' magazine, published by Clarence L. Partee.

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File:Washjeff Banjo Mandolin Club.jpg, The Banjo, Mandolin & Guitar Club at

Washington & Jefferson College Washington & Jefferson College (W&J College or W&J) is a private liberal arts college in Washington, Pennsylvania. The college traces its origin to three log cabin colleges in Washington County established by three Presbyterian missionaries to ...

in the 1890s File:Annual concert of American Guild of banjoists, mandolinists and guitarists, to be held at Witherspoon Hall, Philadelphia, May 27, 1918.jpg, Advertisement for the American Guild of banjoists, mandoliniists and guitarists, 1918. It featured prominent instrumentalists of the movement, mandolinist

Samuel Siegel Samuel Siegel (born 1875, Des Moines, Iowa — died January 14, 1948, Los Angeles, California) was an American mandolin virtuoso and composer who played mandolin on 29 records for Victor Records, including 9 pieces of his own composition and two t ...

, banjoist

Frederick J. Bacon Frederick J. Bacon was a late 19th to mid 20th century performer and recording artist on the five string banjo. He was also an inventor and entrepreneur, educator, composer, and designer and manufacturer of banjos. At the height of his performa ...

and guitarist

William Foden William Foden (23 March 1860 – 9 April 1947) was an American composer, musician, and teacher. Foden is considered America's premiere classical guitarist during the 1890s and the first decades of the twentieth century. Life Foden was born in S ...

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