China's banjo scene: While there are a few banjo players in China such as in the southeastern provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, Shi noted that most of them treat the instrument like a guitar.

Banjo player Earl Scruggs, who helped define the sound of bluegrass, died Wednesday morning. Scruggs, who began playing the banjo when he was four years old, just after his father died, and would go ...