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Scribner radio music library

Does anyone have the nine volumes? Apparently it's Nine volumes of pop music transcripts from The early 20th century so I'm thinking there…

Started by Austin in Classic Banjo

0 Jul 4

Whiskey Before Breakfast for Classic Banjo

Let's give this its own discussion. There are several "versions" floating around the web.  By "versions" I mean in notation for various tre…

Started by Joel Hooks in Classic Banjo

1 Jul 3
Reply by Jody Stecher

City Swells (A Fashionable Intermezzo)..1904..Hijalmar Frithiof Neilsson

This is one of three compositions by a composer about whom little is known. Over 90% of it is played out of first position and is not too c…

Started by Steve Harrison in Classic Banjo

0 Jun 27

Coon-Gine Baby..1893..Carl Lexhoizt aka Charles Astin.

This tune is one of 20 featured in a collection called Sounds From Georgia composed and published by Charles Astin. It's a compilation of n…

Started by Steve Harrison in Classic Banjo

1 Jun 25
Reply by Steve Harrison

PRETTY BELLE WALTZ, by Walter Stearns...A to C notation...again.

I like waltzes. They're rarely difficult. Here's one with some interesting harmonies, esp. in the Trio with a bit of duet tremolo. PRETTY B…

Started by Trapdoor2 in Classic Banjo

1 Jun 25
Reply by Trapdoor2

Emma Mazurka...A Notation to C Notation

Here's a really easy, first position Mazurka from the pen of Walter Jacobs. Published by Thompson & Odell in 1893. No brain-strain, jus…

Started by Trapdoor2 in Classic Banjo

0 Jun 24

Sid Turner Plays 'Chansonade'

'Chansonade?'  Well, not really. That's the title his old friend Tarant Bailey Sr. used a few decades ago, when he introduced this piece on…

Started by Shawn McSweeny in Classic Banjo

4 Jun 23
Reply by thereallyniceman

Tension

What tension do you keep your banjo heads at? I'm thinking of tightening the head a little bit. I bought a drum dial just for that 

Started by Austin in Classic Banjo

0 Jun 22

New strings/ New transcription

The 5th peg on my Windsor Grand Solo banjo keeps slipping so I've been playing my Eric Stefanelli banjo more and more. As my classic banjo…

Started by Jody Stecher in Classic Banjo

47 Jun 22
Reply by Trapdoor2

Soldier's Chorus (Faust) Arr Ellis, #637

Does anyone have this one laying about that they might scan up? I have the Turner's March #11 but would like to see the full published scor…

Started by Joel Hooks in Classic Banjo

0 Jun 18

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