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Post by Wookiee on Feb 15, 2007 14:34:22 GMT -5
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Post by Wookiee on Feb 15, 2007 14:35:36 GMT -5
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Post by Wookiee on Feb 15, 2007 14:36:22 GMT -5
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Post by Wookiee on Feb 20, 2007 15:35:41 GMT -5
 "...In 1864 there were very few regiments in the service that had more than one wagon for the whole regiment... Strict orders were at all times issued that no baggage must be carried for an enlisted man in any of the wagons...Where theres a will, theres a way, and a few of us managed with the help of a friendly teamster to stow away a tackhead banjo and an accordion...
If the weather was pleasant a crowd would gather around the camp fire, the banjo and accordion having been sneaked out of the wagon and a door from some farm house or a couple of boards having been put on the ground on one side of the fire, the audience would take its place on the opposite side, when the evenings entertainment would be gone through with. It consisted of songs with banjo and accordion accompaniment, stories of home and jig dancing. The performances were crude but helped while away many a lonely hour and remind us of home and friends in the far north.
Owing to poor facilities for keeping the instruments in order, the instrumental part of our entertainments were always the poorest. Sometimes it would be weeks before we could get a (banjo) string, and if the banjo head was broken, it took much time and maneuvering for one of our party to steal into the tent of a drummer and punch a hole in a drum (head) near the shell, after which we would watch that drummers tent with eagle eyes until he took the damaged head and threw it out, when one of the gang would pounce on it and bring it to camp in a round about way. Owing to their thickness, the drum heads did not make very good banjo heads, but they beat nothing clear out of sight. In addition to the banjo and accordion, we had a set of beef bones and a sheet iron mess pan answered for a tambourine. Taking into consideration our surrounding and the disadvantages under which we labored, we had some tolerably good shows and at any rate satisfied our open air audiences..."
Mr. A. Baur - "Reminiscences of a Banjo Player" - February, 1893 |
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Post by Wookiee on Feb 20, 2007 15:41:01 GMT -5
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Post by Wookiee on Feb 20, 2007 15:45:40 GMT -5
 While concentrating on the dot, move your head away from and toward the monitor... |
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Post by Wookiee on Feb 20, 2007 15:47:53 GMT -5
 - I warned you! - |
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Post by Wookiee on Feb 20, 2007 15:50:26 GMT -5
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Post by Wookiee on Feb 20, 2007 15:54:06 GMT -5
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Post by Wookiee on Feb 20, 2007 15:58:10 GMT -5
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Post by Wookiee on Feb 20, 2007 15:59:38 GMT -5
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Post by Wookiee on Feb 20, 2007 16:01:43 GMT -5
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Post by Wookiee on Feb 20, 2007 16:03:51 GMT -5
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Post by Wookiee on Feb 21, 2007 16:15:08 GMT -5
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Post by Wookiee on Feb 21, 2007 16:17:04 GMT -5
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