Louisiana Belle
X:1 T:Louisiana Belle M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Minstrel Tune B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 5) 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 G|Bd d/d/ z/d/|ee d z/d/|f>f g>g |a2 zd| Bd dd|ee/g/ d(3d/e/f/|g>g a>f|g2 z2:| g2d2|e z/e/d2|ee d<d|c>c B2| g2 d>d|e/e/e/e/ d2|ff/f/ g/g/g|a/a/a/f/ gz||
X:1
T:Louisianna Bell
M:2/4
L:1/8
S:Isaac Homan manuscript (mid-19th century, Long Island, NY)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:A
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