Includes some banjo duets and banjo-piano duets; "The whole practically illustrated from the first rudiments to the highest difficulties of the instrument."
Scarce English tutor, with double fold out life size diagram of fingerboard. With a brief historical preface discussing the instrument's African origins.
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.
Broadside advertising musical and stage performances and the melodrama the "Fall of Algiers" by Samuel S. Sanford, Mr. Boyce, and Mr. Garvey In New York on Tuesday, March 27, 1838.;
New and Revised Edition on front wrapper. A finger style method by the prominent performer and manufacturer, with a notation system of his own invention. Includes instruction for installing frets.
Title from content of broadside after header information.; At head of title: Long's Varieties and Museum : 758 South Third Street, below German; Broadside advertising musical, stage, and physical performances by Miss Clayton, Miss Henri, H. Moreste, Geo. Shepperd, Miss Tillie Bishop, Miss Ella Speigle, Miss Rose De Vere, Frank Bonner, Jake Budd, Dan Howard, J. E. Smith, Frank Sullivan, and Prof. Muckel in Philadelphia in 1858.;
Title from content of broadside after header information.; At head of title: Theatre Royal, Dublin.; Broadside advertising the production of "I'll be your second" by G. Herbert Rodwell, "The wrong box" by Richard Brinsley Peake, "P.L.", or, "No. 30, Strand" by Mark Lemon, and "Virginian mummy", at Theatre Royal, Dublin, May 11th, 1837.;