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From Briggs' Banjo Instructor, 1855. Tags: draper, paul Paul Draper May 12, 2014 108 views
Thanks to Ian Bell for introducing me to this tune from Septimus Winner's New American School for t… Tags: paul, draper Paul Draper Apr 29, 2014 156 views
This tune (an adaptation of a 17c. Irish ballad about the 1690 Battle of Boyne Water) is from Micah… Tags: draper, paul Paul Draper Apr 25, 2014 166 views
John Diamond's Walk Around, from the Phil Rice banjo tutor of 1858, played by Paul Draper on a Mosc… Tags: paul, draper Paul Draper Apr 23, 2014 140 views
Thank you to Wes Merchant and his recently posted fiddle version for this infectuous tune by John J… Tags: draper, paul Paul Draper Apr 16, 2014 100 views
Two versions of Fisher's Hornpipe. The first is a "minstrel" version from Briggs, 1855, played on a… Tags: draper, paul Paul Draper Apr 11, 2014 108 views
Two from the Converse "green" book of 1865, played guitar style on a Luscomb No. 2. Tags: day, paul Paul Draper Apr 9, 2014 92 views
Both of these are from the Phil Rice Banjo Instructor of 1858, played on a Moschella gourd banjo. Tags: paul, draper Paul Draper Apr 5, 2014 66 views
Two fine fellows from different traditions meet and discover that they aren't so different after al… Tags: draper, paul Paul Draper Apr 3, 2014 164 views
From Frank Converse's Analytical Banjo Method (1886), played here on my Luscomb No. 2 banjo set up… Tags: draper, paul Paul Draper Mar 22, 2014 89 views
From the Converse green book, 1865. See Andy Chase's discussion on this site for more about the Blu… Tags: draper, paul Paul Draper Mar 12, 2014 124 views
Lyrics (De Ole Grey Goose) from Elias Howe's Ethiopian Glee Book (1849); banjo arrangement (The Old… Tags: gander, paul Paul Draper Feb 20, 2014 201 views
From Elias Howe's Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851). Tags: draper, paul Paul Draper Feb 14, 2014 128 views
From Howe's Banjo Preceptor, notwithstanding a few flubbed notes. Tags: preceptor, paul Paul Draper Feb 11, 2014 102 views
Whiling away a winter afternoon with Rice (1858) and Buckley (1860). Tags: paul, draper Paul Draper Jan 26, 2014 124 views
Thanks to Tim Twiss for this fiddle tune from Kerr's, and thanks to Jim Hartel for the new calf-ski… Tags: paul, draper Paul Draper Jan 25, 2014 74 views
Composition by Frank B. Converse, pub. 1886, played "guitar style". Thank you to Bob Lanham for the… Tags: draper, paul Paul Draper Jan 21, 2014 116 views
Phil Rice's Excelsior Jig, 1858. One of those tunes where the thumb does most of the work. The "x"s… Tags: draper, paul Paul Draper Jan 6, 2014 116 views
After seeing the film "12 Years A Slave", I read Solomon Northup's account (published in 1855 by Mi… Tags: draper, paul Paul Draper Dec 16, 2013 300 views
Rice - Briggs - Rice. I've been playing my gourd banjo a lot these days, tuned up to the A/E tuning. Tags: jig, paul Paul Draper Dec 5, 2013 100 views
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