REX
CLASS: BARD SPECIES: SATYR AGE: 37 MUSIC GENRE: COUNTRY
For Rex, his music genre was more of a stylistic choice that was made after the character was made. I don't actually know anything about country music at all, except that its American. Usually, in fantasy lore, a satyr is a half man half goat creature, but I chose to replace the goat aspect with that of a cow/bull for more of a bovine character, whom I knew I wanted in a farm/rural setting. and rather than a guitar, he of course plays the banjo.
The banjo originated in the 17th-century Caribbean and North America, and was created by enslaved people of West African descent. It evolved from West African gourd-bodied instruments like the akonting, which combined a gourd body, hide head, and a neck with European-style tuning pegs.
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The earliest banjos featured a gourd body, a wooden neck, and four strings, including a short thumb string. From the 17th to the early 19th century, the banjo was exclusively associated with African-American traditions. ​The Senegambian akonting is often cited as the closest modern relative to the early American banjo
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The instrument became popularized by white minstrel performers in the 1830s-1840s, leading to the adoption of commercial, wooden-rimmed, and fretted designs.
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(all information gathered is from the wonderful GA Pick-Bow Music School website)