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Theme code Index	1H765 001H7
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Minstrel
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History
Structure	One part
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Gumbo Chaff
Book/Manuscript title	Book:The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo
Tune and/or Page number	p. 16
Year of publication/Date of MS	1851
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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 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|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||

X:1
T:Old Joe [3]
M:2/4
L:1/8
S:Isaac Homan manuscript (mid-19th century, Long Island, NY)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:A
((3e/f/g/|a)a .g.g|.f.f ec|d/e/f/d/ ec|Bc A(f/g/)|
.a.a .g.g|.f.f ec|d/e/f/d/ ec|Bc A||
E|AA a2|(e/f/).e/.c/ B2|.A.A a2|d/f/e/c/ A2|
.A.A {g}a/g/a/f/|(e/f/).e/.c/ B2|c/d/e/c/ d/e/f/d/|ec A!D.C.!||
|:(c/d/).e/.c/ d/e/f/d/|c/d/e/c/ B/c/d/B/|c/d/e/c/ d/e/f/d/|1 ec A2:|2 e/a/e/b/ a2||

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