This is a set of tune books I found in a box at a flea market on The Bruce Peninsula (near the village of Mar) They all date to the 1880 and 90s. They seem to go together and two are companion volumes of a tune collection published for different instrumen...
The No. 1 Book in Jarman Publications' "Cornhusker Series". The copy I have is copyright 1938, but since it's designated as No.1, it presumably originally came out at the same time as my 1936 copy of No. 2 "George Wade's Book of Dance Calls Only". This bo...
Angus John Franklin Sinclair provided this picture of his great uncle, Jack Bell, and says of him, "Jack, and his 2 brothers Rob and Adam played for barn dances etc in the St Marys area for many years. Jack was the 'ringleader'. I attribute my 'GIVE 'R' a...
This 1890 photograph shows the front of a Toronto music store that was located on King Street, between Bay and Jordan streets. If we go window shopping, here's what we find in his display. LEFT HAND WINDOW - (top to bottom) Violins and bows, a five-strin...
