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Title: Banjo made easy : a quick road to proficiency : a simplified, practical and thorough guide
Names: Converse, F. B. (Frank B.), 1837-1903
Publisher: Hamilton S. Gordon
Place Published: New York (N.Y.)
Date: 1893
Type: Books
Pages: 104 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo -- Methods -- Self-instruction, Banjo -- Instruction and study, Banjo -- Studies and exercises, Banjo music
Note: A handsome copy of Converse's final tutor, with the ownership signature "S[ister]r. Beatrice, OSB, 1893." Includes a generous selection of music; the final ads are for Converse's line of banjos, and include full page diagrams of his improvements in neck mounting and tail piece.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-fbc-easy
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Title: Banjo, and how to play it : containing, in addition to the elementary study, a choice collection of polkas, waltzes, solos, schottisches, songs, reels, hornpipes, jigs, etc., with full explanations of both the "banjo" and "guitar" styles of execution, and designed to impart a complete knowledge of the art of playing the banjo practically without the aid of a teacher
Names: Converse, F. B. (Frank B.), 1837-1903
Publisher: Dick & Fitzgerald
Place Published: New York (N.Y.)
Date: 1872
Type: Books
Pages: 124 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo -- Methods -- Self-instruction, Banjo music, Banjo -- Studies and exercises
Abstract: Includes a selection of stage songs, jigs, polkas and waltzes; Music: p. 58-96.
Note: The follow up volume to Converse's Influential Banjo Without A Master, and the scarcer of the two.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-fbc-howto
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Title: Frank B. Converse's Banjo instructor, without a master : containing a choice collection of banjo solos, jigs, songs, reels, walk arounds, etc., progressively arranged, and plainly explained, enabling the learner to become a proficient banjoist without the aid of a teacher
Names: Converse, F. B. (Frank B.), 1837-1903
Publisher: Dick & Fitzgerald
Place Published: New York (N.Y.)
Date: 1865
Type: Books
Pages: 134 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo -- Methods -- Self-instruction, Banjo -- Instruction and study, Banjo -- Studies and exercises
Note: A notable tutor by a widely popular performer. In this and other companion works, Converse introduced the 'guitar style' of arpeggiated up picking on the banjo, laying the groundwork for subsequent classical styles, as well as the intricate picking of later generations.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-fbc-wo-master
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Title: Frank B. Converse's new and complete method for the banjo with or without a master
Names: Converse, F. B. (Frank B.), 1837-1903
Publisher: S.T. Gordon
Place Published: New York (N.Y.)
Date: 1869
Type: Books
Pages: 92 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo -- Studies and exercises, Banjo -- Methods -- Self-instruction, Banjo -- Instruction and study, Banjo music
Note: A later printing of the original edition of 1865; Date of 1867 printed on cover.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-fbc-new
Use/Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/