Author: WINNER, SEPTIMUS
Title: Winner's New American School for the Mandolin Comprising the Rudiments of Music, Scales and Exercises, and a Full Selection of the Most Popular Melodies of the Day. . .
Description: Boston: White-Smith Music Publishing Co, 1890. Paperback. This is a larger than trade sized oblong paperback book. The book is in Fair condition. The paper used is in quite fragile condition and chips easily. The front cover of the book is intact, but the spine and the rear cover are missing. The last intact text page is page 66, which is detatched. Septimus Winner was one of the earliest proponents of the mandolin in the US. "Septimus Winner (1827-1902) Biography. Septimus Winner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1827. He was the seventh child (hence the name Septimus) of Eastburn Winner, a violin-maker, and Mary Ann Hawthorne, a relative of New England poet and author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Largely self-taught, Winner studied music as a youth with Leopold Meignen, a French-born composer, conductor, publisher, and teacher. Throughout his life he performed regularly with the... " (Library of Congress). Fair .

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