1851 Gumbo Chaff tutor. - Minstrel Banjo2024-03-28T18:10:22Zhttps://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/forum/topics/1851-gumbo-chaff-tutor?commentId=2477478%3AComment%3A5354&feed=yes&xn_auth=noYes...there it is. Let's go!!tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2014-02-01:2477478:Comment:1059112014-02-01T18:00:15.741ZTim Twisshttps://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/TimTwiss
<p>Yes...there it is. Let's go!!</p>
<p>Yes...there it is. Let's go!!</p> I think this is the link for…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2014-02-01:2477478:Comment:1060152014-02-01T16:58:47.534ZBob Lanhamhttps://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/RobertLanham
I think this is the link for downloading the Complete Preceptor:<br />
<a href="http://contentdm6.hamilton.edu/cdm/ref/collection/spe-ban/id/1672" target="_blank">http://contentdm6.hamilton.edu/cdm/ref/collection/spe-ban/id/1672</a>
I think this is the link for downloading the Complete Preceptor:<br />
<a href="http://contentdm6.hamilton.edu/cdm/ref/collection/spe-ban/id/1672" target="_blank">http://contentdm6.hamilton.edu/cdm/ref/collection/spe-ban/id/1672</a> Cool -- thanks to both of you.tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2009-04-01:2477478:Comment:64842009-04-01T04:01:57.000Zrazynhttps://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/razyn
Cool -- thanks to both of you.
Cool -- thanks to both of you. Here is the whole book (THANK…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2009-04-01:2477478:Comment:64812009-04-01T00:38:01.000ZTim Twisshttps://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/TimTwiss
Here is the whole book (<i>THANK YOU DAVID</i>)!
Here is the whole book (<i>THANK YOU DAVID</i>)! Hello all.
If the gem which…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2009-03-29:2477478:Comment:63222009-03-29T01:51:16.000ZDavid Swarenshttps://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/DavidSwarens
Hello all.<br />
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If the gem which is the focus of this discussion has not yet become available to the group, I would be happy to send a copy of my (photo) copy of the "Complete Preceptor."<br />
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The date/edition of this copy is obscured by the (original?) retailer's tag, that of "W. G. Metzerott, Manufacturer and Importer of Musical Instruments and Sheet Music," of Washington D. C."<br />
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Three of four years back, a copy surfaced on eBay, and following the auction the seller also listed photocopies: I was…
Hello all.<br />
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If the gem which is the focus of this discussion has not yet become available to the group, I would be happy to send a copy of my (photo) copy of the "Complete Preceptor."<br />
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The date/edition of this copy is obscured by the (original?) retailer's tag, that of "W. G. Metzerott, Manufacturer and Importer of Musical Instruments and Sheet Music," of Washington D. C."<br />
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Three of four years back, a copy surfaced on eBay, and following the auction the seller also listed photocopies: I was successful in the less competitive latter effort.<br />
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Please inquire directly, as I do not visit this wonderful site as often as I ought; messages sent by way of my friend Chris Ownby should also reach me.<br />
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Yours,<br />
David Swarens. Chris Ownby said:that tune "D…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2009-03-12:2477478:Comment:57632009-03-12T17:59:27.000Zrazynhttps://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/razyn
<cite>Chris Ownby said:</cite><blockquote cite="http://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/forum/topics/1851-gumbo-chaff-tutor#2477478Comment5760"><div>that tune "De Gal Wid De Blue Dress On". Does the EGB version have lyrics?</div>
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Yep, it's a glee club book -- all of them (120 indexed titles) have words.<br />
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Dick
<cite>Chris Ownby said:</cite><blockquote cite="http://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/forum/topics/1851-gumbo-chaff-tutor#2477478Comment5760"><div>that tune "De Gal Wid De Blue Dress On". Does the EGB version have lyrics?</div>
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Yep, it's a glee club book -- all of them (120 indexed titles) have words.<br />
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Dick Your EGB Index jpg shows "The…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2009-03-12:2477478:Comment:57602009-03-12T15:33:39.000ZChris Ownbyhttps://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/ChrisOwnby
Your EGB Index jpg shows "The Gal with the blue dress on" page 56. Most of us probably play Briggs' version of that tune "De Gal Wid De Blue Dress On". Does the EGB version have lyrics?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Chris Ownby
Your EGB Index jpg shows "The Gal with the blue dress on" page 56. Most of us probably play Briggs' version of that tune "De Gal Wid De Blue Dress On". Does the EGB version have lyrics?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Chris Ownby Brian Welch said:I just... lo…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2009-03-11:2477478:Comment:57132009-03-11T03:27:03.000Zrazynhttps://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/razyn
<cite>Brian Welch said:</cite><blockquote cite="http://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/forum/topics/1851-gumbo-chaff-tutor#2477478Comment5702"><div>I just... looked at a copy of the 1851 "Complete Preceptor for the Banjo." It is only 16 pages long.</div>
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And I just received in the mail an appalling, but very comprehensive, Gumbo Chaff collection -- his Ethiopian Glee Book (1849). I'll post a couple of scans. This is perhaps the least PC work I have personally seen in print... and I lived…
<cite>Brian Welch said:</cite><blockquote cite="http://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/forum/topics/1851-gumbo-chaff-tutor#2477478Comment5702"><div>I just... looked at a copy of the 1851 "Complete Preceptor for the Banjo." It is only 16 pages long.</div>
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And I just received in the mail an appalling, but very comprehensive, Gumbo Chaff collection -- his Ethiopian Glee Book (1849). I'll post a couple of scans. This is perhaps the least PC work I have personally seen in print... and I lived in Mississippi, 1954-63. The works of the White Citizens' Council during that era were positively respectful, by comparison. Anyway, if y'all want the words and music, there are a LOT of songs in this. Fully harmonized. I believe at least one of these arrangements ("The Fine Old Color'd Gentleman") may be heard on the Early Minstrel Show CD, produced some years ago by our Dr. Bob.<br />
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Dick Hulan I just visited the music libr…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2009-03-10:2477478:Comment:57022009-03-10T19:22:43.000ZBrian Welchhttps://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/BrianWelch
I just visited the music library at work on my lunch break and looked at a copy of the 1851 "Complete Preceptor for the Banjo." It is only 16 pages long. I would have made a copy of it, but the original was too fragile and somebody was on the microfilm machine with a scanner. It is comprised of hits played by Christy's Minstrels, so most everything seemed to be familiar territory.<br />
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The microfilm reel also had a copy of the "Abridged edition of Howe’s new American banjo school : with new and…
I just visited the music library at work on my lunch break and looked at a copy of the 1851 "Complete Preceptor for the Banjo." It is only 16 pages long. I would have made a copy of it, but the original was too fragile and somebody was on the microfilm machine with a scanner. It is comprised of hits played by Christy's Minstrels, so most everything seemed to be familiar territory.<br />
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The microfilm reel also had a copy of the "Abridged edition of Howe’s new American banjo school : with new and complete rules and exercises and all necessary instructions to perfect the player in the art of playing the banjo without a master : together with a large collection of popular music" by Elias Howe.<br />
Published : Boston : Russell and Tolman, c1859. This one is 39 pages. I'll copy the index of songs.<br />
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The next item on the reel was George C. Dobson's "Dobson Brothers’ modern method for the banjo"<br />
Published : Boston, White, Smith & Perry, [1871]. I'll copy the index for that one too the next time I actually get to take a lunch break.<br />
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Just may have to learn to read music yet, as there are a few tunes in these books that I would like to learn that I can't find the tab for yet.<br />
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--Brian Can't seem to let this rest,…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2009-03-02:2477478:Comment:54032009-03-02T21:24:51.000Zrazynhttps://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/razyn
Can't seem to let this rest, I know... but I was looking at the AAS online catalog, because in Gura and Bollman, America's Instrument, p. 266, note 55 says the AAS has a "unique copy" of an 1848 imprint of this banjo tutor. But it ain't in their catalog.<br />
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However, these are:<br />
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The Ethiopian flute instructor : containing full and complete instructions, with all the popular Negro melodies of the day, including those of the Christy Minstrels, by Gumbo Chaff, A.M.A. Author of The Ethiopian Glee…
Can't seem to let this rest, I know... but I was looking at the AAS online catalog, because in Gura and Bollman, America's Instrument, p. 266, note 55 says the AAS has a "unique copy" of an 1848 imprint of this banjo tutor. But it ain't in their catalog.<br />
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However, these are:<br />
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The Ethiopian flute instructor : containing full and complete instructions, with all the popular Negro melodies of the day, including those of the Christy Minstrels, by Gumbo Chaff, A.M.A. Author of The Ethiopian Glee Book, Ethiopian Accordeon Instructor, Ethiopian Violin Instructor, &c., &c. (Boston: Elias Howe, 1848) 48 p.<br />
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The Ethiopian violin instructor, : containing full and complete instructions, with all the popular Negro melodies of the day, including those of the Christy Minstrels. / by Gumbo Chaff, A.M.A. author of the Ethiopian glee book, Ethiopian accordeon Instructor, Ethiopian flute Instructor, &c., &c. (Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1850) 48 p.<br />
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I might add that Howe's Preceptor for the Accordeon (1843) that I have is older than, but different from, his Ethiopian accordeon instructor. It only has about five clearly "Ethiopian" tunes in its 40 pages.<br />
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Dick Hulan