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.
A scarce and important banjo tutor, by a well known performer. Many of the tunes are by the author, who led Buckley's Serenaders, a long popular minstrel troupe. This is probably a somewhat later printing, but still preserving the cover diagram of the fretless minstrel pitched instrument.
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."
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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.
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.