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A hundred years ago, a group of citizens reorganized the Klan from the Reconstruction era. They chose the Thanksgiving holiday to announce their reinvigorated formation. WWI kept people focused on...

PIANO ROLLS FOLDER:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ai5w4idshkbc66h/AADl4pnlU0LKPjV7-4eq3D1Ra?dl=0
I just uploaded a live performance on a pianola, a 1904 Polyphon Mechanical Player Piano, performed...

Curious if pfox was persuaded or not (about Seville)...

I'm so sorry but I uploaded the wrong file...in my haste. Here's the final copy. as attached. Thank you!

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see post #109 for correct final paper on Mr. Seville.

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I'm pleased to announce my investigation about the first American-made mandolin.
Thanks to the enormous support from many friends and a tremendous amount...

I'm very very close to publishing my definitive history on the first American-made mandolin. I'm excited with a sense of trepidation! I think it will help future scholars to continue in the search...

Try not to go postal...~o) but we do have a dysfunctional "acting" government at this moment and its many branches are suffocating for lack of permanent staff. Beyond that, all I can say is that ya'...

just added a September 1954 recording made at Bella Napoli on Mulberry Street. Luigi Giorno from Germantown, PA. and his M2, Joe G. and Tony C on guitar. "Niagara" was published by Tesio. You can...

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9zhxeekpyeuj223/AAC83KNrCaJa6dKpZb9lDzWUa?dl=0

Italian Vintage Audio Recordings --various

just updated with new recording of Canoro's La Dolce Cristina.

See...

Stay tuned for the another huge, creative bombshell from Sheri~ due in autumn.

Just uploaded Canoro's guitar part for "La Napoletana" mazurka. It's in the Di Bella folder.
Also updated the Index with recent corrections and it shows #151 as a complete trio. (SEE ATTACHED INDEX)...

hmmm. well twelve years later...I'm sure that by the year 1894, Foote was making his own stuff but before that he only imported mandolins.
Foote opened a branch store c. 1868 in Chicago and was the...

I've been using Field's website for a while now. At first, I thought they only had covers because the arrows didn't take you inside the magazine but once I downloaded an issue, I immediately saw that...

The best featured perforamnce at the CMSA convention, Nov. 2018, was embodied in the mandolin students of the San Francisco middle school where Carlo Dean teaches. "La Scuola" is investing in the...

Grisman was sitting in with the Steep Canyon Rangers...briefly and then they did the finale together. It was such a great day to hear two of my fav mandolinists united! I'll have to check out the...

Guggino shreds it with the Dawg!
Steep Canyon Rangers and Grisman (Green Music Center 7-21-2019)
OK to download! What a phenomenal afternoon!
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MUSIC CATALOGS FOLDER
I just uploaded a Cardilli music catalog, probably published around 1911. It is a thematic catalog with the latest
(mostly) Neapolitan canzone and includes his mandolin...

A new Cardilli title (a waltz composed by the Maestro himself) "Segreto del Cuore" now resides in the CARDILLI FOLDER

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b2jz8my27xvpbxa/AAB49cr1MItRCBoVRDzxLaKVa?dl=0
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I tune in using City World Radio. He interviews well known Manhattanites, plays a wide variety of music and offers calendar events such as updates about the San Gennaro festival (September) where he...

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9zhxeekpyeuj223/AAC83KNrCaJa6dKpZb9lDzWUa?dl=0
ITAIAN VINTAGE AUDIO RECORDINGS

To celebrate five yea(yesterday!) since I started this thread, I want to celebrate the...

I always listen to Johnny's show. Right from the heart of Manhattan!

I found THE Mr. Seville. Once I've reconciled some of the 'conflicting' posts and suggested timelines, I will reveal him in all his amazing splendor. Indeed! Bohmann attracted the extraordinary. As...

It seems that it's easy to conflate names and especially Anton (né Antonio?) Alberto and Heinrich Albert (Enrico Alberti) (both guitarists). Until we can get bio facts for Alberto, we should be wary.

Italian online libraries offer the alternative "Enrico Alberti" and that may be how many Italian musicians remember him.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Albert_%28Gitarrist%29

Heinrich Albert (1870-1950) According to Michael Reichenbach, Albert's music will be available when it enters the public domain in...