{"id":290,"date":"2009-08-24T13:13:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T18:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2009-08-24T13:13:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T18:13:19","slug":"frufru-banjo-by-brits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Frufru banjo by Brits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zither-banjo.org\/images\/Wien.jpg\" alt=\"Jan Wien\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two recordings on <a href=\"http:\/\/musicaviva.com\/encyclopedia\/display.html?phrase=zither-banjo\">zither banjo<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zither-banjo.org\/pages\/wien.htm\">a turn of the century British virtuoso named Jan Wien<\/a>, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zither-banjo.org\/\">the zither-banjo web site<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zither-banjo.org\/pages\/Valse%20Gaiete.mp3\" class=\"htrack\">Valse Gaiete<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zither-banjo.org\/pages\/Hungarian%20Rapshody.mp3\" class=\"htrack\">Hungarian Rhapsody<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"float: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zither-banjo.org\/pages\/bull.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zither-banjo.org\/images\/bull.JPG\" alt=\"Joseph Bull\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And more by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zither-banjo.org\/pages\/bull.htm\">an opera banjo player named Joseph Bull<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zither-banjo.org\/pages\/Handy%20Jack.mp3\" class=\"htrack\">Handy Jack<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zither-banjo.org\/pages\/jb1.mp3\" class=\"htrack\">Intermezzo from &#8220;Cavalieria Rusticanain&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear: left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And while you are enjoying the music, here is something whacky.<\/p>\n<p style=\"float:left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zither-banjo.org\/pages\/underwood.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zither-banjo.org\/images\/teeth.jpg\" alt=\"W. G. Underwood plays banjo with his teeth\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>W.G. Underwood, a sailor on board H.M.S. Calypso has adopted a new style of playing the banjo aloft while hanging by his teeth. He tells me (editor Emile Grimshaw) that the tune he was playing when this photograph was taken was &#8220;Lenton Waltz&#8221;. He also says that &#8220;although a simple tune, it always goes down well when played in this manner at a height of twenty feet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two recordings on zither banjo by a turn of the century British virtuoso named Jan Wien, courtesy of the zither-banjo web site: Valse Gaiete Hungarian Rhapsody And more by an opera banjo player named Joseph Bull: Handy Jack Intermezzo from &#8220;Cavalieria Rusticanain&#8221; And while you are enjoying the music, here is something whacky. W.G. Underwood, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steamboing","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}