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In today’s Academic Minute, Randy Zwally of Messiah College explains the invention of hardware that allows the banjo to be played in and out of tune. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.

When Earl Scruggs died last week at 88, he was justly celebrated as a musician who revolutionized the way we hear and think of the banjo. "He defined the way the bluegrass banjo should sound, and ...