Gumbo Chaff
X:1 T:Gumbo Chaff M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Minstrel tune B:Elias Howe – Second Part of the Musician’s Companion (1843, p. 56) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A E|AA Ac/d/|ef/e/ dB|BB B/c/d/e/ |fg/f/ ec| ee a>e|ef/e/ ec|AA A/B/c/d/|1 ef/e/ e:|2 e/c/d/B/ A|| |:c/e/|dB BB/d/|cA Ac/e/|f/a/g/f/ e/d/c/B/|cAA A/e/| dB B/f/e/d/|cA Ac/e/|f/a/g/f/ e/d/c/B/|Aaa:|]
X: 1
T: GUMBO CHAFF
B: Oliver Ditson "The Boston Collection of Instrumental Music" 1910 p.72 #1
F: http://conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/8/8f/IMSLP175643-PMLP309456-bostoncollection00bost_bw.pdf
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: C
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X:2
T:Gumbo Chaff
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 10)
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/c/|cA AA/c/|BG GB/d/|e/g/f/e/ d/c/B/A/|BGG G/d/|
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