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Title: Banjo! : a dissertation
Names: Stewart, S. S. (S. Swaim), 1855-
Publisher: S.S. Stewart
Place Published: Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date: 1888
Type: Books
Pages: 135 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo
Note: First edition. A major treatise by a leading manufacturer, marking the evolution of the instrument from minstrel stage to concert hall. This is an early issue with uncorrected textual errors e.g. "seemad" for "seemed" on p. 30, line 12, "audiance" for "audience", p. 14, line 12 from bottom, and "affect" for "effect" on p. 64, line 5 from bottom. Most notably, subsequent editions did not include the nine portraits of professional players, but only the portrait of Stewart.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-sss-diss1
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Title: Banjo! : a dissertation
Names: Stewart, S. S. (S. Swaim), 1855-
Publisher: S.S. Stewart
Place Published: Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date: 1888
Type: Books
Pages: 123 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo
Note: Second edition; stamped "Complimentary Copy" on ffep [front free end paper], and with the pencilled block letters, "Danville School of Music. H. Q. Porter, Violin; H. A. Prior, piano; Park Hunter, Banjo," on the verso of the portrait. As noted, the textual errors are here corrected, and only the portrait of Stewart is retained.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-sss-diss2
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Title: Complete American banjo school
Names: Stewart, S. S. (S. Swaim), 1855-
Publisher: S.S. Stewart
Place Published: Philadelphia (Pa.)
Type: Books
Pages: 73 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo -- Instruction and study, Banjo -- Studies and exercises, Banjo -- Methods, Banjo -- History, Banjo music
Abstract: Nonsequentially numbered back material includes: "Observations on Stroke or Thimble Playing on the Banjo", "The Banjo Philosophically, Its Construction, Its Capabilities, Its Evolution, Its place as a Musical instrument. Its possibilities, and Its Future : A Lecture", "An Exposition of the Harmonic Tones Used in Banjo Playing and Their Philosophy" and "How to Put a Head on a Banjo."
Note: Stated "36th Edition." With a new preface and supplementary material. A fundamental document of the era of the parlour banjo, by the eminent maker and theoretician, first published in 1883. A second part was offered separately.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-sss-complete
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Title: S.S. Stewart's celebrated banjos : catalogue and price-list : banjo music, instruction books, strings and fittings
Names: Stewart, S. S. (S. Swaim), 1855-
Publisher: S.S. Stewart
Place Published: Philadelphia (Pa.)
Type: Books
Pages: 80 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo -- Manufacturers' catalogs, Musical instruments -- Manufacturers' catalogs, Banjo
Abstract: Includes portraits of noted players E.M. Hall, Huntley and Lee, W.A. Huntely, Geo. W. Powers, J.H. Mack, P.C. Shortis, A.A. Farland, and Horace Weston; Includes short essays, some attributed to S.S. Stewart, related to the care and construction of banjos.
Note: A handsomely illustrated catalogue from one of the pre-eminent makers of the period. Includes instruments and accessories, nice full page steel engraved portraits of noted players and a page of illustrations of banjos being made. Complete with the two folding plates. Very scarce.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-b-catalogue
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Title: Stewart's universal banjo instructor : a book for the million
Names: Stewart, S. S. (S. Swaim), 1855-
Publisher: S.S. Stewart
Place Published: Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date: 1882
Type: Books
Pages: 18 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo -- Methods, Banjo -- Instruction and study, Banjo -- Studies and exercises, Banjo music
Note: Rare rudimentary instructor, with tunes, by the major manufacturer of the period.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-sss-million
Use/Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/

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