Traditional Bluegrass Instruments | Kentucky Studies

The traditional five-piece bluegrass band is made up of banjo, guitar, mandolin, bass, and fiddle. The bluegrass sound came together in the 1940s with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, with Monroe on mandolin, Lester Flatt on guitar, Earl Scruggs on banjo, Chubby Wise on fiddle, and Howard Watts on bass.