Annotation:Uncle Gabriel (1)

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UNCLE GABRIEL. American, Minstrel Song (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune appears in a later edition of the earliest known banjo tutor, published in 1848. The tutor was written by Elias Howe, whose pseudonym 'Gumbo Chaff' is taken from Thomas Dartmouth Rice's 1834 blackface character. The 1851 edition was published in Boston by Oliver Ditson. In 1850 Howe sold some of his works to Ditson (this one among them) and agreed not to publish similar works for ten years.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Chaff (The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo), 1851; p. 4.

Recorded sources:

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