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Jasper "Jep" Bisbeen playing fiddle with his daughter accompanying on piano. A son, not visible to the left (although part of his bass appears), also played.

BISBEE'S WALTZ. American, Waltz (3/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABBCC. Jasper "Jep" Bisbee (1843-1935) was a fiddler from Paris, Michigan, whose family had rural New York roots. He was in his 80's when he was discovered by Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone during their annual camping trip, whilst playing at a Paris, Michigan dance in 1923. Impressed, Edison offered him a recording contract. The tune's second strain recalls "Copenhagen Waltz" in Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford's Good Morning collection, says Bronner (1987). Ford's square dance band, consisting of Clayton Perry (fiddle), Edwin F. Baxter (dulcimer), William Hallup (cimbalom) and Maurice Castel (sousaphone), recorded the waltz for Columbia records in 1927.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Henry Ford's Old Fashioned Dance Orchestra, c. 1926 [Bronner].

Printed sources : - Bronner (Old-Time Music Makers of New York State), 1987; No. 7, p. 35.

Recorded sources : - Columbia 877 (78 RPM), Henry Ford's Old Fashioned Dance Orchestra (1927).

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