Jim Brown
X:1 T:Jim Brown M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Minstrel tune B:Elias Howe – Second Part of the Musician’s Companion (1843, p. 57) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G G/A/|B/G/G/G/ B/G/G/G/|dA/F/ D>D|D/E/F/G/ A/B/c/A/|B/G/A/F/ G:| |:D|G/B/d/f/ gg/g/|g/d/B/G/ D>D|D/E/F/G/ A/B/c/A/|B/G/A/F/ G:|
X:1
T:Jim Brown
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 14)
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:G
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B/G/G/G/ B/G/G/G/|dA/F/ D>D|D/E/F/G/ A/B/c/A/|B/G/A/F/ G||
D|G/B/d/f/ gg/g/|g/d/B/G/ D>D|D/E/F/G/ A/B/c/A/|B/G/A/F/ GD|
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