Montana Girl (1911)..Percy Wenrich.

[Steve Harrison]

This is a catchy Two Step/Cake Walk, it's not too challenging to play and has a nice bass solo in the trio. It's another of those tunes that could almost have been written for banjo. The sections which I've marked at 5B could be played out of first position as in bars 42 and 43..Steve.

[Austin]

You should try to arrange Le Banjo by Gottschalk. I was going to attempt it and I kind of succeeded somewhat, but I have to figure out the variations because on Banjo they'd be very different from piano

[Joel Hooks]

For some reason this seems to be the pièce de résistance idea… but it is not a great piano piece and even less interesting arranged for banjo (which many people have done already).  Yeah, yeah, I know all the theories about how it is supposed to be some authentic representation of banjo playing or something.  But to me it is repetitive and uninteresting.

Austin said:

You should try to arrange Le Banjo by Gottschalk. I was going to attempt it and I kind of succeeded somewhat, but I have to figure out the variations because on Banjo they'd be very different from piano

[Jody Stecher]

The composer called it a fantaisie grotesque.  It's just a bunch of ripples set in the apparantly bizarre key of six sharps. That's F sharp. When tried on a piano it quickly becomes apparent that the mostly pentatonic score can be found easily on the black keys and that is probably the reason.  Sure, it has banjo-like things... except for...  an actual melody,   So why put deliberately grotesque piano music onto the banjo? Who would want to listen to it?  Not me.

Joel Hooks said:

For some reason this seems to be the pièce de résistance idea… but it is not a great piano piece and even less interesting arranged for banjo (which many people have done already).  Yeah, yeah, I know all the theories about how it is supposed to be some authentic representation of banjo playing or something.  But to me it is repetitive and uninteresting.

Austin said:

You should try to arrange Le Banjo by Gottschalk. I was going to attempt it and I kind of succeeded somewhat, but I have to figure out the variations because on Banjo they'd be very different from piano

[Jody Stecher]

To be clear, I'm talking about Le Banjo, not Montana Girl.

Jody Stecher said:

The composer called it a fantaisie grotesque.  It's just a bunch of ripples set in the apparantly bizarre key of six sharps. That's F sharp. When tried on a piano it quickly becomes apparent that the mostly pentatonic score can be found easily on the black keys and that is probably the reason.  Sure, it has banjo-like things... except for...  an actual melody,   So why put deliberately grotesque piano music onto the banjo? Who would want to listen to it?  Not me.

Joel Hooks said:

For some reason this seems to be the pièce de résistance idea… but it is not a great piano piece and even less interesting arranged for banjo (which many people have done already).  Yeah, yeah, I know all the theories about how it is supposed to be some authentic representation of banjo playing or something.  But to me it is repetitive and uninteresting.

Austin said:

You should try to arrange Le Banjo by Gottschalk. I was going to attempt it and I kind of succeeded somewhat, but I have to figure out the variations because on Banjo they'd be very different from piano

[Joel Hooks]

So was I.