Dean also imports and markets other string instruments such as resonator guitars, mandolins and banjos. It is a common tool for players of guitars, mandolins, mandolas, banjos, ukuleles and bouzoukis. Pianos, guitars, banjos, and many other stringed instruments incorporate soundboards. Banjos, fiddles, and guitars were particularly popular. The V.C. Squier Company manufactured strings for violins, banjos, and guitars. Like in Florida, the main melodies consist of banjos, fiddles and harmonicas. Aside from guitars, Epiphone also made double basses, banjos, and other string instruments. Drums, trombones, banjos, chimes, bells and whistles? Repetitive open-G tunings are used by Russian guitars, Dobro guitars, and banjos. The instrumentation consists of clucking banjos alongside new wave electric guitars. They also banished the playing of violins and banjos. Friedrich Gretsch manufactured banjos, tambourines, and drums until his death in 1895. Modern banjos are typically strung with metal strings. The four string plectrum and tenor banjos did not eliminate the five-string variety. Modern six-string bluegrass banjos have been made.