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During the 19th and early 20th centuries, other stringed instruments began to be added to the fiddle-banjo duo that was essential to dance music of the early 19th century United States. These other instruments included the [[guitar]], [[mandolin]], and [[double bass]] (or [[washtub bass]]), which provided chordal and bass line accompaniment (or occasionally melody also). Such an assemblage, of whatever instrumentation, became known simply as a "string band."
In the 1870s African-American dance houses of Cincinnati had musicians who played violin, banjo, and bass fiddle.<ref>''The Music of Black Americans: A History'', by Eileen Southern, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. pages 327,328. {{ISBN|978-0-393-03843-
==String bands in jazz==
Artists began to combine and record string-band music in collaboration with other popular styles in the 1920s. [[Lonnie Johnson (musician)|Lonnie Johnson]] and his brother, James “Steady Roll” Johnson were both proficient at [[banjo]], guitar, and [[violin]], and recorded with various string bands in a [[blues]] style. Lonnie Johnson also recorded duets with [[Eddie Lang]] during the late 1920s, and set the precedent for string band jazz, which included ''Bull Frog Moan/A Handful of Riffs'' from 1929. As influential as the Johnson/Lang duets were those by Lang and [[Joe Venuti]]. These works, completed in 1926, emphasized the rhythm of a chordal guitar with the melody in the swung violin line.
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