Nancy Tooley's Cake Walk..1899..J.H.Jennings

[Steve Harrison]

J.H.Jennings wrote and published music for banjo and guitar and this tune is without doubt written for banjo. I couldn't find a score so I transcribed it from one of Dorian Henry's videos which was written in E/Amaj. G was the obvious key in which to transcribe it. I'm sure the original banjo arrangement is somewhere in Banjo Land .The tune has a definite Irish influence and its not too challenging to play. I would rate this as highly recommended and worth a try...Steveve.

[Joel Hooks]

I'm not sure how to make this stuff any easier to find when I scan it.  Perhaps google is not indexing the Archive for some reason?

https://archive.org/details/nancy-tooleys-cake-walk-j.-h.-jennings

[Steve Harrison]

Hi Joel, Google didn't find any sheet music for this. I did it the hard way with pencil and paper and copied the score as displayed on the Dorian Henry video. Whoever wrote the piano arrangement obviously took the A notation banjo score and arranged it as seen. It's a great tune though, I like it a lot but my aging fingers struggle to hit the tempo as per the MP3...Steve.
Joel Hooks said:

I'm not sure how to make this stuff any easier to find when I scan it.  Perhaps google is not indexing the Archive for some reason?

https://archive.org/details/nancy-tooleys-cake-walk-j.-h.-jennings

[Joel Hooks]

Yes, it did not show up in a search for me either.  I don’t know if Google is blocking the Archive, or selective indexing or something else.

With the introduction of “AI” google search results have become extremely poor, anemic, and strongly geared towards advertisers.  None of this is good and the internet in general is becoming worse IMO.

[Jody Stecher]

When a google search fails for something I know exists  on the internet and was previously easily found I close the tab and open a new one and type in what I'm looking for once again.  That usually works, When it doesn't work I word what I'm looking for slightly differently,

By the way when it fails I sometimes don't get a message that nothing can be found. Instead, nothing happens. This is using Safari as a web browser on a Macbook Pro computer. It's not a freeze. It's just my command being ignored.

Google's AI (called "Gemini" I think) is often useful. But sometimes it is ignorant. The ignorance is often paired with arrogance. ("A I" standing for Arrogant Ignorance). It tells me I can't possibly be looking for what I've asked for because that thing doesn't exist,  and it implies that I'm a fool. What I really want is.... and then it suggests something ridiculously unrelated to my search.  If I then change the wording of what I'm searching for  it usually comes up with the very thing I was looking for.  I can put up with it preferring one way of wording to another.

. I could do without the scolding,

Joel Hooks said:

Yes, it did not show up in a search for me either.  I don’t know if Google is blocking the Archive, or selective indexing or something else.

With the introduction of “AI” google search results have become extremely poor, anemic, and strongly geared towards advertisers.  None of this is good and the internet in general is becoming worse IMO.