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The Teddy bear Rag..1907..Hattie Bernice Goben.
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Hallowe'en Dance..1908..Hans Fritz Theodore Englemann
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Pick and fingers, anyone?
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Echoes from The South..1905..A.J.Weidt
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The last Vibrante Royal ever made? 42 Replies
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The Irish Grenadier march rewrite 2 Replies
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Mocking Bird Rag..1912..Charles Theodore Straight.
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Ragtime Jingles...1916..Al.J.Markgraf
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Dance on the flat boat-Uncle Remus March..1884..M.Louis
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Help please
My Nan used to play the banjo ( many many moons ago ) she was known as “Ena and her banjo”.
Unfortunately her banjo has fallen into disrepair over the years . However her musical genius (apparently a blooming brilliant singer too)has skipped the last 3 generations .We are looking for a recommendation for someone/company to do a sympathetic repair as a surprise for our mums 80th birthday next year .We live in Leicestershire (England) can any one advise us please
Many…
ContinuePosted by Deborah Powers on February 7, 2025 at 14:00 — 3 Comments
"SOMEWHERE IN DIXIE" Banjo 2
Hello, I wrote a Banjo 2 accompaniment for Somewere in Dixie, as there was none. Is it possible to put it in the music library?
Posted by Alexandre Derycke on October 20, 2024 at 20:06 — 2 Comments
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"I don’t know that it is exactly harmful, but that website has been thrown at me more times than I can count as a reference source for banjo history subjects (such as Temlett inventing the zither banjo). So I suppose it harmed me a little."
"Aw, it's just a buncha harmless ignorance. I just had a look around that site for the first time. The overall feel of the site is bumbling, well-meant, wide-of-the-mark ahistorical blather. "
"That “creek don’t rise” website is the worst. From old discredited myth to outright fabrications with a strong slant of folk revival, that site should be entirely removed from the internet and any archive version."
"I am always very interested in anything to do with Cammeyer. I was a zither-banjo fanatic at 3 years old, and I can remember my mother telling me he'd died in 1949 when I was about 10 or 11. I thing Richard Ineson has got it…"
The Teddy bear Rag..1907..Hattie Bernice Gobden.
Despite the rather naff title and twee title page, this is a very well written rag with some interesting syncopation. The composer was born in Texas and she taught herself to play on the family piano. She never took music lessons and played entirely…See More
"Just to be clear on Weston, the real claim was that while Weston was widely known to be a great player of several musical instruments from notation, the claim was reduced to that he played other instruments from notation and not the banjo. …"
"Yes, but that was frequently something that Black musicians were accused of and even some Black musicians like Louis Armstrong faked. Armstrong who had had gotten fairly good musical training in reform school privately hired a German…"
Hallowe'en Dance..1908..Hans Fritz Theodore Englemann
As Halloween fast approaches, I searched for a Halloween themed tune and came across this little known composition. The composer was born in Berlin and later emigrated to America where, at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, he…See More
"Horace Weston not "Hosea Weston""
"It seems peculiar that I am replying fto a discussion that I lauched almost 10 years ago. I had a return to doing some work about Easton to contribute work on him for a banjo history publication, that I could not finish. …"
"the suggestion that Samson Easton, Hosea the banjoist's father, had something to do with Easton learning the banjo would challenge the idea that Horace Weston did not read, or perhaps read well. Samson was a general music and dance…"
" I think the fingering choice in the first measure of the Trio does not need correcting. I like it."
"I'll intersperse my responses (in boldface) within your remarks, Jody."
"Ah! Thank you, Ian."
"Thanks! You're covered in sawdust. Until a few minutes ago I was covered in coffee. My grocery shopping took me near Peet's Coffee so I stepped in to buy a pound, a quantity which gets you a free cup of whatever they're…"
"Ellis used the phrase 'left hand fingers hammering down' when describing the Slur, on p.34 of his 'Thorough School For The Six Or Seven-Stringed Banjo'.
In his 'Dallas' Modern School' he wrote 'hammering…"
"Obvious answer: because I haven't played thru it yet.
Generally, I'll follow the suggested fingering and positions. If there are none, I'll give it my best shot and expect to fix it later when I've actually got a banjo in my lap.…"
"In 1925 Stent is using the term "hammer" to indicate a two note slur going upward in pitch. 23 years later Pete Seeger used the term "hammer-on" in his banjo instruction book. By the time another 20 years had passed…"
"And just for fun, here's "Extacy" in a little bit clearer form (plus Tab and an mp3). I've simply put it in AABA-Trio-ABA form...which is how I have interpreted the original directions."
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