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I was thinking of continuing my work with the tutors by recording some of the books by Septimus Winner. They are often overlooked, but certainly supply a good portion of useable early material. Anybody find these useful?

 

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I have yet to come upon any early material that wasn't useful in some way or another.  My feeling is that if a book has even just three or four gems in it, it's worth getting.  Can you give us a little more info on how much material this consists of, and from what years?  Is it specifically banjo arrangements, or is it general sheet music melodies?  Lyrics at all?

I have 2 of the books up on my site. There are several, but not a lot of variation. Many tunes are repeated with different titles, but there are several that have no appearance elsewhere.

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Strumelia said:

I have yet to come upon any early material that wasn't useful in some way or another.  My feeling is that if a book has even just three or four gems in it, it's worth getting.  Can you give us a little more info on how much material this consists of, and from what years?  Is it specifically banjo arrangements, or is it general sheet music melodies?  Lyrics at all?

I've had fun reading through the Winner books. I learned their version of "Spanish Fandango" and the "Jolly Dogs" Polka (these are in both the 1872 and 1883 books) and "Gwine In The Valley" by Sam Lucas. I was slightly surprised to see "The Rogues' March" which I think of as a Rev War/1812-era fife & drum tune. I guess it might have hung on till the Civil War - I sure someone in the gang would know for sure. There are also song great titles like "A Horrible Tale", but I can'r remember if that one's any good.

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