Rhythm Instruments used in Minstrelsy - Minstrel Banjo2024-03-19T07:20:46Zhttp://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/forum/topics/rhythm-instruments-used-in?commentId=2477478%3AComment%3A102027&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noPurchased my jawbone from Ste…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2013-11-11:2477478:Comment:1020272013-11-11T23:23:24.766ZJames Pentecosthttp://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/JamesPentecost
<p>Purchased my jawbone from Steve Weiss Music.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.steveweissmusic.com/product/donkey-jawbone-quijada/authentic-world-percussion">http://www.steveweissmusic.com/product/donkey-jawbone-quijada/authentic-world-percussion</a></p>
<p>Purchased my jawbone from Steve Weiss Music.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.steveweissmusic.com/product/donkey-jawbone-quijada/authentic-world-percussion">http://www.steveweissmusic.com/product/donkey-jawbone-quijada/authentic-world-percussion</a></p> We got our jawbone at Lark in…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2013-11-11:2477478:Comment:1020822013-11-11T17:39:06.553ZJohn Mascialehttp://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/JohnMasciale
<p>We got our jawbone at Lark in the morning. We've used wooden sticks, but Elaine normally ends up with a lap full of sawdust. We've tried turkey bones, and are currently using a ham bone. That has lasted fairly well, but the teeth have eaten through that as well.</p>
<p>We got our jawbone at Lark in the morning. We've used wooden sticks, but Elaine normally ends up with a lap full of sawdust. We've tried turkey bones, and are currently using a ham bone. That has lasted fairly well, but the teeth have eaten through that as well.</p> In Utah one of the Old Time t…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2013-11-06:2477478:Comment:1020402013-11-06T22:38:46.626ZDavid Spalding Sharphttp://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/DavidSpaldingSharp
<p>In Utah one of the Old Time traditional bands of 90 year olds were captured on film by the State folk arts council. They had fiddle, banjo, guitar and pitch fork played like a triangle with a wrench. It had a sound like a giant Teefer or french triangle. As to the triangle I've always assumed it was played in the french Canadian maner. I could imagine that the Minstrel shows had many things they did besides much like the tambourine and bones solos mentioned by Chris. I'm glad to find my wife…</p>
<p>In Utah one of the Old Time traditional bands of 90 year olds were captured on film by the State folk arts council. They had fiddle, banjo, guitar and pitch fork played like a triangle with a wrench. It had a sound like a giant Teefer or french triangle. As to the triangle I've always assumed it was played in the french Canadian maner. I could imagine that the Minstrel shows had many things they did besides much like the tambourine and bones solos mentioned by Chris. I'm glad to find my wife and I are on the right track playing the Tambourine with Banjo. We did it because it felt right and then found many performers and historical reasons why the two were played together.</p>
<p> </p> And don't forget the fire-ton…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2009-02-11:2477478:Comment:46372009-02-11T12:20:46.000ZDave Culganhttp://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/OlDanTucker
And don't forget the fire-tongs.
And don't forget the fire-tongs. Thank you Gentlemen!!!
Greg,…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2009-02-10:2477478:Comment:46032009-02-10T20:36:31.000ZChris Ownbyhttp://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/ChrisOwnby
Thank you Gentlemen!!!<br />
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Greg, thanks for reminding me about Robert Winans "Early Minstrel Show Music, 1843-1853" in Inside the Minstrel Mask. I just reread it and found some cool stuff that I can use to help keep my presentations fresh.<br />
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The kind of information that I am looking for is like this "One of the earliest tambourine solos is described in a program as imitating railroad trains, cannon, bugle calls, a French drummer, a grist mill, and a cotton mill. Bones solos usually involved…
Thank you Gentlemen!!!<br />
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Greg, thanks for reminding me about Robert Winans "Early Minstrel Show Music, 1843-1853" in Inside the Minstrel Mask. I just reread it and found some cool stuff that I can use to help keep my presentations fresh.<br />
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The kind of information that I am looking for is like this "One of the earliest tambourine solos is described in a program as imitating railroad trains, cannon, bugle calls, a French drummer, a grist mill, and a cotton mill. Bones solos usually involved imitations of drums and horses."<br />
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Now if I could just find some primary source information about how that pesky triangle was played. Have you checked out: Winans,…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2009-02-10:2477478:Comment:46002009-02-10T18:44:10.000ZGreg Adamshttp://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/GregAdams
Have you checked out: Winans, Robert. "Early Minstrel Show Music, 1843-1852," in Musical Theater in America: Papers<br />
and Proceedings of the Conference on Musical Theater in America, Glenn Loney (ed.), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press , 1984. Also reprinted in Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy, ed. Annemarie Bean, James V. Hatch, and Brooks McNamara. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1996.
Have you checked out: Winans, Robert. "Early Minstrel Show Music, 1843-1852," in Musical Theater in America: Papers<br />
and Proceedings of the Conference on Musical Theater in America, Glenn Loney (ed.), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press , 1984. Also reprinted in Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy, ed. Annemarie Bean, James V. Hatch, and Brooks McNamara. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1996. Somewhat tangentally, Albert…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2009-02-10:2477478:Comment:45772009-02-10T05:23:40.000ZCarl Andertonhttp://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/CarlAnderton
Somewhat tangentally, Albert Baur related that while his unit was on campaign during the Civil War, a "sheet mess tin answered tolerably for a tambourine."
Somewhat tangentally, Albert Baur related that while his unit was on campaign during the Civil War, a "sheet mess tin answered tolerably for a tambourine." Some of the sheet music cover…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2009-02-08:2477478:Comment:45402009-02-08T00:31:34.000ZJohn Mascialehttp://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/JohnMasciale
Some of the sheet music covers from the 1840s/1850s that I recall show bones, triangle, tambourine
Some of the sheet music covers from the 1840s/1850s that I recall show bones, triangle, tambourine The Hans Nathan Book actually…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2009-02-07:2477478:Comment:44592009-02-07T16:39:07.000ZTim Twisshttp://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/TimTwiss
The Hans Nathan Book actually has a score for Minstrel Ensemble, including the notation for Tambo and Bones. It is for "'Twill Nebber Do To Gib It Up So".<br />
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It "<i>approximates the manner of performance of minstrel bands in the early forties</i>".<br />
P 403.
The Hans Nathan Book actually has a score for Minstrel Ensemble, including the notation for Tambo and Bones. It is for "'Twill Nebber Do To Gib It Up So".<br />
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It "<i>approximates the manner of performance of minstrel bands in the early forties</i>".<br />
P 403.