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    1855 (or 1865 if you are going by the cover) ... is sitting on my music stand. Well its not the original, but a photographic facsimile that I will be digging into this weekend.

    Real cool. A new tunebook is about as much fun as you can have and talk about it.
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    All right, Jeff. Where did you find this facsimile edition?
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    I can't find it available anywhere, but I see it listed in a few libraries as: "Buckley’s violin tunes : a collection of beautiful marches, waltzes, quadrilles, polkas, scottisches, operatic melodies, hornpipes, reels, jigs, etc. etc. : and many other melodies never before published, including Buckley’s celebrated imitations of the farm-yard : and Brigg’s power of music / the whole selected arranged and composed for the violin by J. Buckley & Sons of Buckley’s Serenaders."

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    Hee hee hee.


    Well I know there aren't many out there. I found several references to the existence of this collection on line, and I heard there is a known complete but for one page original in the library at the University of Tennessee.

    A fiddler friend of mine, who is a photographer by trade, came across a complete original in a bin at an estate sale or something. It was complete, though in fragile shape, the paper all brittle and all. So he laid it all out carefully and took amazing pictures of every page.

    These kinds of things are dicey in my experience. Sometimes the tunes are not as interesting as you expect. Not in a tune in hand for the jam down the street way that I use fiddle tunes. Tonight I will find out, though a first glace yields no klinkers.
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    I have a few original 19th century tunebooks and there prob would be two or three tunes worth bothering with but the bulk may not. I found a contemporary review that said that Buckley book had tunes that were in no other books but by now many may have been handed down in the repertoire. There is a listing on Amazon UK but it is not available.

    There is a mention on a Civil War forum and one poster linked some scans but I am waiting for my registration to be accepted so that I can actually see what he linked.

    Let us know if there is anything interesting in your copy, Jeff.

    I did post a few from violin tunebooks here.
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    There's an interesting PDF with notes and bibliography on American fiddle tunes at the Library Of Congress here, which among many other works references Buckley as a source for the Crystal Schottische (or Two-Step Schottische). Rather a bulky volume considering that it was published as the liner notes to an LP published by the LOC (an LP with 44 pages of liner notes?), but if you ever wanted to know the origin of the standard old-time/bluegrass repertoire, this is where you find exhaustive source references.

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    Well I have been having a ball the last several hours. And there are a couple of tunes that are quite charming. Lilly Quadrille is composed by J. Buckley himself (of Buckley's Serenaders I presume). Its one of these vary innocent ice cream social straw hat and necco wafer tunes. Delightful by design. Something entirely without any edges that are too sharp. And then I really like Brigg's Power of Music, which was significant enough that it is mentioned on the front cover as being included.
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    Any possibility of sharing some of the "stars" of this book?
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    Of course of course.

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    Here are a few scans that someone posted on a civil war reenactment forum.
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