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The "Double" consists of two banjos playing together, side by
side, operated by the same music roll, with each playing identical
notes. This double arrangement tends to produce a "fuller" sound
than just a single banjo, due to the slight dissonance that always
exists between the two instruments. Bad tuning is not the question
here, because no amount of careful tuning will keep the two instruments
in perfect tune. This slight dissonance between the two is actually
desirable, and, in fact, a slight tuned "beating" between pipe voices
in band organs and orchestrions is deliberate, and is what gives
them their characteristic full throated quality of sound.

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