The Last Patrol, Parke Hunter

[Joel Hooks]

Listening to the original recordings section I came across Mansell's playing of Hunter's "The Last Patrol".  Does anyone have the score to this?

[Richard William Ineson]

I seem to think that I have a copy, maybe the last copy of the Last Patrol. I will commence the search as soon as I have had my morning glass of Sherry.

[Richard William Ineson]

I do have a copy, pretty verminous even by the standards of old banjo music, I often wonder what potential pathogens lurk in the folds of these faded sheets of paper.

[Richard William Ineson]

Page 2. There are some missing notes on the right hand side but not enough to matter.

[Joel Hooks]

Thank you sir! This is fantastic!!  Another piece saved from the dust to be enjoyed by generations around the world.

Did there happen to be a second banjo part with it?

I find the lack of dynamic markings interesting, perhaps ol' Parke figured if you were playing his music you could figure out how to get louder then quieter on your own?  Or possibly since it was the last patrol he was in a hurry and left most of them off?

I've been meaning to add a patrol to my rotation to drill down on my dynamic control.

[thereallyniceman]

Thank You Richard!

I have just had my afternoon sherry, beer and whisky but have managed (through the alcoholic blurr) to run the score for The Last Patrol through Photoshop and have uploaded it to the MUSIC LIBRARY.

I hope it is only me, not he score, that is a bit blurry ;-)

Richard William Ineson said:

Page 2. There are some missing notes on the right hand side but not enough to matter.

[Richard William Ineson]

My pleasure Joel,

I am pleased to be able to share my collection of banjo music with you and anyone else who is interested via the wonderful WWW. I have so far only discovered this rather tatty, original 1st banjo part, but, I have a very clearly hand  written, 2nd banjo part , which I will reveal to the world in the next few days.

Speaking of the patrol genre, Hunter  did an arrangement of Meacham's 'American Patrol', later made famous by Glen Miller.

Joel Hooks said:

Thank you sir! This is fantastic!!  Another piece saved from the dust to be enjoyed by generations around the world.

Did there happen to be a second banjo part with it?

I find the lack of dynamic markings interesting, perhaps ol' Parke figured if you were playing his music you could figure out how to get louder then quieter on your own?  Or possibly since it was the last patrol he was in a hurry and left most of them off?

I've been meaning to add a patrol to my rotation to drill down on my dynamic control.

[Richard William Ineson]

Richard William Ineson said:

My pleasure Joel,

I am pleased to be able to share my collection of banjo music with you and anyone else who is interested via the wonderful WWW. I have so far only discovered this rather tatty, original 1st banjo part, but, I have a very clearly hand  written, 2nd banjo part , which I will reveal to the world in the next few days.

Speaking of the patrol genre, Hunter  did an arrangement of Meacham's 'American Patrol', later made famous by Glen Miller.

Joel Hooks said:

Thank you sir! This is fantastic!!  Another piece saved from the dust to be enjoyed by generations around the world.

Did there happen to be a second banjo part with it?

I find the lack of dynamic markings interesting, perhaps ol' Parke figured if you were playing his music you could figure out how to get louder then quieter on your own?  Or possibly since it was the last patrol he was in a hurry and left most of them off?

I've been meaning to add a patrol to my rotation to drill down on my dynamic control.

[Richard William Ineson]

Richard William Ineson said:

Richard William Ineson said:

My pleasure Joel,

I am pleased to be able to share my collection of banjo music with you and anyone else who is interested via the wonderful WWW. I have so far only discovered this rather tatty, original 1st banjo part, but, I have a very clearly hand  written, 2nd banjo part , which I will reveal to the world in the next few days.

Speaking of the patrol genre, Hunter  did an arrangement of Meacham's 'American Patrol', later made famous by Glen Miller.

Joel Hooks said:

Thank you sir! This is fantastic!!  Another piece saved from the dust to be enjoyed by generations around the world.

Did there happen to be a second banjo part with it?

I find the lack of dynamic markings interesting, perhaps ol' Parke figured if you were playing his music you could figure out how to get louder then quieter on your own?  Or possibly since it was the last patrol he was in a hurry and left most of them off?

I've been meaning to add a patrol to my rotation to drill down on my dynamic control.

[thereallyniceman]

Thank you Richard. I will add the second part to the MUSIC LIBRARY tomorrow.

You certainly have some stuff!

Richard William Ineson said:

Richard William Ineson said:

My pleasure Joel,

I am pleased to be able to share my collection of banjo music with you and anyone else who is interested via the wonderful WWW. I have so far only discovered this rather tatty, original 1st banjo part, but, I have a very clearly hand  written, 2nd banjo part , which I will reveal to the world in the next few days.

Speaking of the patrol genre, Hunter  did an arrangement of Meacham's 'American Patrol', later made famous by Glen Miller.

Joel Hooks said:

Thank you sir! This is fantastic!!  Another piece saved from the dust to be enjoyed by generations around the world.

Did there happen to be a second banjo part with it?

I find the lack of dynamic markings interesting, perhaps ol' Parke figured if you were playing his music you could figure out how to get louder then quieter on your own?  Or possibly since it was the last patrol he was in a hurry and left most of them off?

I've been meaning to add a patrol to my rotation to drill down on my dynamic control.

[Richard William Ineson]

Yes, I've been lucky in picking up lots of banjo related thing over the past 60 years. I'm still missing a few things like an original, complete copy of Hunter's 'Jungle Rag' and a couple of other things but I'm not losing any sleep over them. I'm happy to share my collection off paper with anyone who needs to see anything, I can't understand these so called banjo fans who keep everything to themselves as 'it will devalue' whatever it is they are hiding away, if they let anyone see it. Bonkers.

thereallyniceman said:

Thank you Richard. I will add the second part to the MUSIC LIBRARY tomorrow.

You certainly have some stuff!

Richard William Ineson said:

Richard William Ineson said:

My pleasure Joel,

I am pleased to be able to share my collection of banjo music with you and anyone else who is interested via the wonderful WWW. I have so far only discovered this rather tatty, original 1st banjo part, but, I have a very clearly hand  written, 2nd banjo part , which I will reveal to the world in the next few days.

Speaking of the patrol genre, Hunter  did an arrangement of Meacham's 'American Patrol', later made famous by Glen Miller.

Joel Hooks said:

Thank you sir! This is fantastic!!  Another piece saved from the dust to be enjoyed by generations around the world.

Did there happen to be a second banjo part with it?

I find the lack of dynamic markings interesting, perhaps ol' Parke figured if you were playing his music you could figure out how to get louder then quieter on your own?  Or possibly since it was the last patrol he was in a hurry and left most of them off?

I've been meaning to add a patrol to my rotation to drill down on my dynamic control.

[Joel Hooks]

This is great stuff Richard and I very much appreciate the attitude regarding sharing music and stuff.  I have made it my mission to scan and upload to publically accessible places as much banjo music and books (in the public domain) as possible.  Part of my early frustrations was lack of access. It is also beneficial to all of us when fresh eyes discover this stuff as they might see something we did not. 

Yeah, I've heard that "VaLUe" bs many times, and have received a few unsolicited emails explaining how what I am doing is wrong because some Boomer collectors spent money and time to find it-- so should everyone else (or something like that).

But I can guarantee that banjo sheet music and tutors have extremely little monetary value.  For "lots" of A notation stuff I've been paying less than a dollar a sheet (which always comes with pieces we have scanned), if I get to pick and choose it is closer to $5 each.  Tutors that have not been scanned yet are around the $20-30 dollar range, and those are getting fewer and fewer as we get them all scanned and shared. 

A side to this is that with more of this stuff available to anyone it is hard for the "folk" narrative to continue to ignore it. 

[Jody Stecher]

The champions of folk banjo have believed absurd and false things about the history of the banjo and its music. That is not a good reason for the champions of classic banjo to do the equivalent. 

A first step towards reconciliation would be for the champions of Classic banjo to let go of their untenable idea that there is no aural/oral traditional banjo music or that folk banjo is less real, less valuable or less musical.  In addition to the false beliefs, the "folk narrative" describes a verifiable history of banjo playing that runs parallel to the history of classic banjo and which begins earlier. Each is a  branch of the same tree.  Neither has more legitimacy.  

Joel Hooks said:

A side to this is that with more of this stuff available to anyone it is hard for the "folk" narrative to continue to ignore it.