. Briggs' banjo instructor [music] : containing the elementary principles of music, together with examples and lessons, ... to which is added a choice collection of pieces, numbering over fifty popular dances, polkas, melodies, &c. &c., many of which have never before been published. Composed and arranged expressly for this FF XFFFXFFFxF Sizzzzzi|^J^Ni:i-=^=i^^^z^iz^z==:ipT^-=^T F x F X F THE SLUR. In playing, two notes over or under which a curved line, or slur ^ is placed, and which are to be made on the same string, thus:ifczzjzz}the first note is to be struck by the first fin

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. Briggs' banjo instructor [music] : containing the elementary principles of music, together with examples and lessons, ... to which is added a choice collection of pieces, numbering over fifty popular dances, polkas, melodies, &c. &c., many of which have never before been published. Composed and arranged expressly for this FF XFFFXFFFxF Sizzzzzi|^J^Ni:i-=^=i^^^z^iz^z==:ipT^-=^T F x F X F THE SLUR. In playing, two notes over or under which a curved line, or slur ^ is placed, and which are to be made on the same string, thus:ifczzjzz}the first note is to be struck by the first finger of the right hand, and the second note is to be made by pulling the string©^ with the finger of the left hand, used in making the first note, thus, in the above example, B is the first note, this is made 2 °by placing the 2d finger on the 1st string; A, which is the second note, and which comes on the open string, is made by pulling theItring with the 2d finger as it is being removed from the string. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE BANJO. 13

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