Annotation:Old Joe (3)
X:1 T:Old Joe [3] M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Air B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 16) N: A later edition of the earliest known banjo tutor, published in 1848. It was written by N:Elias Howe, whose pseudonym Gumbo Chaff is taken from Thomas Dartmouth Rice's N: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 N: to publish similar works for ten years. Z:AK/FIddler's Companion K:G g|gg f>f|ee d2|z2 zg|ggff|ee d2|z2 z g|gg f>f|ee d2| z2ze|gg/g/ ff/f/|ee/e/ d2|g2g2|GG/G/ d/d/d/d/|ee/e/ dd/d/| c/c/c/c/ B/B/B/B/|AA G2|GG/G/ d/d/d/d/|ee/e/ dd/d/|c/c/c/c/ B/B/B/B/|AA G2||
