{"id":405,"date":"2009-09-25T20:07:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T01:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2009-09-25T20:07:15","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T01:07:15","slug":"horace-westons-celebrated-polka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Horace Weston&#8217;s Celebrated Polka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 99%\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/img\/horaceweston\/Horace Weston's Celebrated Polka (title).png\" alt=\"Horace Weston's Celebrated Polka (title)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go digging for music by the 19th century banjo star Horace Weston and you&#8217;ll won&#8217;t find much.  He was more of a player than a composer, I guess.  Fortunately this 1880 compilation of banjo tunes:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 99%\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/img\/horaceweston\/The J. E. Brewster Banjoist (title).png\" alt=\"The J. E. Brewster Banjoist.\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>On page 18:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 99%\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/img\/horaceweston\/Horace Weston's Celebrated Polka (18).png\" alt=\"Horace Weston's Celebrated Polka (18)\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Had this sheet music:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 99%\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/img\/horaceweston\/Horace Weston's Celebrated Polka (sheet music).png\" alt=\"Horace Weston's Celebrated Polka (sheet music)\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a banjo, and if I did I still couldn&#8217;t play this on it.  What I do have is a parlor guitar from more or less the same time period and an hour or so a day for practicing the damn thing until I get it right.  So I did this video:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xTEBGO0iEkI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xTEBGO0iEkI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xTEBGO0iEkI\">Lucas Gonze &#8212; Horace Weston&#8217;s Celebrated Polka (on YouTube)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go digging for music by the 19th century banjo star Horace Weston and you&#8217;ll won&#8217;t find much. He was more of a player than a composer, I guess. Fortunately this 1880 compilation of banjo tunes: On page 18: Had this sheet music: I don&#8217;t have a banjo, and if I did I still couldn&#8217;t play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mymusic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}