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Size: 2,937kb, uploaded 12/23/2012 9:58:43 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)
From Buckley's Banjo Book of 1860. From Part 1 of this collection. Played on a fretless Bell and Son Boucher.
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- Play count: 175
Size: 1,457kb, uploaded 4/15/2012 7:28:26 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Other
Instrumental arrangement of the 19th Century classic. More available at http://timtwiss.com/musicstore/Briggs-Banjo-Instructor--4-.htm http://www.timtwiss.com/timtwisscomprintmusicsources
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- Play count: 73
Size: 913kb, uploaded 5/5/2015 4:49:40 AM
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From the Buckley banjo Guide of 1868, an easy tune.
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Size: 1,918kb, uploaded 1/1/2013 4:47:15 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)
From "The Little Yellow Book" by Frank Converse 1865, otherwise known as "Banjo Without A Master". This book contains many of the tunes that define the Stroke Style ? early Banjo genre.
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Size: 5,423kb, uploaded 9/7/2008 8:34:57 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This fabulous song is taken from the Converse Analytical Method. It is also from my new CD "The Grape Vine Twist". If you like this, please consider buying this collection of 19th century Stroke Style Minstrel Banjo songs. (see classifieds here, or CD Baby)
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- Play count: 406
Size: 4,047kb, uploaded 9/21/2013 1:28:24 PM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)
From my Gourd Banjo project. I transcribed and arranged this one from Kerr's.
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Posted by banjosnapper
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Size: 2,514kb, uploaded 12/23/2012 10:01:39 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)
From Buckley's Banjo Guide of 1860. From Part 3 of the complete collection. Played on a Bell and Sons Fretless Boucher.
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Posted by banjosnapper
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- Play count: 75
Size: 1,966kb, uploaded 3/19/2009 9:34:09 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Other
From The Porcupine Mountains Suite.
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Size: 2,000kb, uploaded 10/2/2008 7:05:07 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Ensemble version of this song from from the Briggs' 1855.
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Posted by banjosnapper
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- Play count: 79
Size: 3,013kb, uploaded 3/19/2009 9:38:18 PM
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From The Porcupine Mountains Suite.
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Posted by banjosnapper
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Size: 2,231kb, uploaded 12/23/2012 10:00:50 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)
From Buckley's Banjo Guide of 1860. From Part 2 of the complete collection. Played on a Bell and Sons Fretless Boucher.
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- Play count: 207
Size: 1,881kb, uploaded 7/27/2013 7:47:43 PM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Other
This is one tune from the recording project of Buckley's 1868 book as played on my fretless Bell Boucher.
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Posted by banjosnapper
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- Play count: 86
Size: 1,741kb, uploaded 3/19/2009 9:40:01 PM
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From The Porcupine Mountains Suite.
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Size: 1,499kb, uploaded 7/31/2013 10:05:22 PM
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Posted by banjosnapper
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Size: 2,012kb, uploaded 7/6/2008 5:56:58 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the Buckley 1868, with added percussion and doubled banjo in the arrangement. This is included in my new CD "Grape Vine Twist".
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Posted by banjosnapper
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- Play count: 93
Size: 3,351kb, uploaded 3/19/2009 9:37:06 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Other
From The Porcupine Mountains Suite.
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Posted by banjosnapper
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- Play count: 1488
Size: 1,158kb, uploaded 5/9/2012 5:48:16 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)
From the Briggs' Banjo Instructor of 1855.
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Posted by banjosnapper
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- Play count: 96
Size: 2,056kb, uploaded 3/19/2009 9:34:52 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Other
From The Porcupine Mountains Suite.
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Posted by banjosnapper
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- Play count: 356
Size: 1,871kb, uploaded 7/14/2013 6:36:21 PM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)
This is from the Buckley Banjo Guide of 1868, and is a part of the compilation I am recording.
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