"Hey Mike,
I don't know what to tell you. I have tried sending it to the email attached to your BHO account, which you can't get.
Then I sent it to the AOL account that, I guess, did not accept the attachment. So I just sent it…"
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Hello. New member from Philadelphia in the US. I've written numerous books of guitar history, am a columnist for Vintage Guitar Magazine, and am a presenter at the annual Banjo Gathering. If you…Continue
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"As Mike said earlier, there are advertisements in British Newspapers of teachers offering both American and English methods and which seem to be from around the 1880s/90s. Although prospective pupils would presumably have been aware of the essential…"
"Mike, did you get my email, and did all come through okay? ;-)"
"1848- very good. But still useless and not to be trusted. At one time I did track down the very plates used in this to other books. Howe published some collections for generic treble clef instruments. I also found some in…"
"Surely "discord" is as bad as False Tuning. Surely "mistuning" is worse than false tuning. It condemns the use and user of such tunings just as "misbehaving" condemns the behavior and behaver to whom the epithet is…"
"Apologies: it is "Complete". Published in 1848 by Howe. In 1850 Howe sold his plates and copyrights to Ditson, who changed the publisher's marks but reproduced Howe's book otherwise identically, along with the rest of…"
"Jody, Scordatura means discord or mistuning not "false tuning". I know you don't care for that term but it is correct when applied to a banjo tradition of using a "standard" set of intervals, a tradition that we have…"
"The Complete Preceptor for the banjo was published in 1851. While I am happy to let y'all have the discussion on English guitars and banjo tuning, The Complete Preceptor is a Complete pile of nothing useful. "Gumbo Chaff"…"
"OK, now we've got two Americans ( I presume) divided by a common language.! Mike W had written "What he means, and what I present an elaborate proof of, is that the 4 strings of the banjo are the same as the first 4 strings of the…"
"The full tuning of the 6-course English guittar was C E GG cc ee gg, with intervals of M3rd, m3rd, 4th, M3rd, m3rd, from 6 to 1. (There were some 5-course versions, I believe.) Jefferson’s term is “chords,” not…"
"The tuning of the English guitar that Jefferson reported being the same as banjo may have been in fourths as you say. One tuning of its four highest courses I found on the internet (which is often wrong) is a major chord represented as G…"
"Hi guys! So I actually started this thread a year ago when I was thinking of doing a presentation on the controversy between A Notation in America and C Notation in Great Britain. My presentation later morphed into an exposition of the…"
"All I can find in reference to "English Method" is in the context of notation systems. Mike, are you able to provide other examples that are clear in context of playing styles?"
"Here is a clear explanation of "English Method" as a description for notating the banjo in the key of C or C notation."
"I sort of spaced on the obvious about the Dobigny method. "English Method" likely means the same as "English System" which refers to C notation. Opposed to the American System of A notation. "
"When the photo was taken Mackney was apparently making regular appearances as one of a company of vocalists at the Canterbury Hall in Westminster, accompanied by Cecil Hicks on the pianoforte. "
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