Does anybody have a tabbed version of the St. Louis Tickle?  I'm going to make the switch over to standard notation soon, but at the moment I'm still becoming more comfortable with the style of arranging used in classic banjo.

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I have been working on tabbing out Clarke Buehling's Orchestral version for some time. It has parts for 1st, 2nd, banjeaurine, piccolo and cello. It is a huge task and one that I need to just buckle down and finish. While Clarke's manuscript is reasonably clear, it is harder for me to translate.

Steve's version is a good one but I started with Clarke's and mean to finish eventually.

I would like to see a vintage set of dots arranged for banjo in the period. Anyone seen any from the Brit publishing houses (Essex, Grimshaw or Turner, etc.)? I would have expected to see a set of Ossman dots wandering around...but haven't.

Coincidentally it is Clarke's version that I'm interested in learning as well.  I haven't seen any banjo arrangements of it around, however.  

I got my copies from Paul Heilman of the ABF a year or so ago. It was one of the orchestra pieces for a rally. I'll get on it again and see if I can get at least the 1st banjo part done.

The only other arrangement I've seen mention of is by Howard Weilmuenster. It was published in the newsletter back in 1965, you should be able to put in a request for a copy of the dots.

I have a tab for St Louis Tickle. I also have 3 versions in staff notation. These are all banjo solos, not orchestral arrangements. I can post them here if there is interest. In 2009 Banjo Newsletter ran an article on me and I was required to submit tabs of my banjo music. I don't normally  read or write tab but the editor is a nice feller and they ran the whole dang interview unedited, which was an honor indeed, so I was happy to comply and I wrote out tab for some of the banjo music I was playing. One of the pieces they published was a tab of St Louis Tickle as I played it in 2009. I've changed a thing or two since then. The staff notation is as follows:

1) this is labeled as a Fred Van Eps arrangement. A legible but inky, murky copy.

2)  a 1961 very tidy hand-written arrangement by "Weily —1961", with lots of fingering indications for both hands, including some very good ideas, in my opinion.

3) another hand written arrangement, without attribution.

Jody, I'm be very interested in your versions, if you don't mind sharing them. In the mean time, I requested the dots from the ABF library.

I'll bet #2 by "Weily" is the Howard Weilmuenster version. If you can, Jody, post 'em all!

I'm scanning them at this very moment. I'll have em up here before too long.

Trapdoor2 said:

I'll bet #2 by "Weily" is the Howard Weilmuenster version. If you can, Jody, post 'em all!

OK, here is the purported Van Eps version. I tried straightening it but that removed some of the dots. My own copy is slanted, sorry.

And here is the Weilly version



Trapdoor2 said:

I'll bet #2 by "Weily" is the Howard Weilmuenster version. If you can, Jody, post 'em all!

And here is yet another version



John Cohen said:

Jody, I'm be very interested in your versions, if you don't mind sharing them. In the mean time, I requested the dots from the ABF library.

And, finally, here is the tab. 



John Cohen said:

Jody, I'm be very interested in your versions, if you don't mind sharing them. In the mean time, I requested the dots from the ABF library.

Thanks!  I'm looking forward to digging into this one.

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