Uncle Gabriel (1)



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X:1 T:Uncle Gabriel [1] M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Minstrel tune B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 4) N: A later edition of the earliest known banjo tutor, published in 1848. It was written by Elias Howe, whose pseudonym Gumbo Chaff N:is taken from Thomas Dartmouth Rice's 1834 blackface character. The 1851 edition was published in Boston by Oliver Ditson. N:In 1850 Howe sold some of his works to Ditson (this one among them) and agreed not to publish similar works for ten years. Z:AK/FIddler's Companion K:D d/e/|ff dd|aa fd|(g4|f2) z2|f/f/f dd|aa fd|(g4|f2)z|| d/e/|f>f g>g|a>a b>b|c'2 b>a |a>gfg|b2 g>g|a>g f!fermata!a !D.C.!||

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