Beauchamp’s name, the patent number (which he owned) and the date of its issue. But note, these are not photographs. That would have been too easy because the whereabouts of most of these instruments is known. The images in this three kilo / 423 page book are all hand drawn, using modern graphic design technology to produce photo realist illustrations – from the first ban- jos produced by the company in 1923 up until the close of OMI (Original Music Com- pany) and its sale to Gibson guitars in 1993.
Mark bought his first National, a 1935 Duolian, for £14 in 1966, thinking that was it. When someone showed him a photo of a Tri- plate he realized there was more to it. This book, six years in the making, is the Pandora’s box that he discovered. 331 pages with three instruments per page, 50 pages of amplifiers, and for the truly obsessed a list of the serial numbers and descriptions of 4,200 instru- ments known to exist. The book covers not just the acoustic metal-bodied resophonics but also the electric instruments they pro- duced. If you have ever owned a National guitar, have gazed at photos of blues or Hawaiian musicians with one, or seen pop prancers flashing one and wondered… then you need this.
www.markmakin.co.uk Mike Cooper
The Village Band Book, Vol 3
Dave Townsend Serpent Press, 22 Swinbourne Rd, Littlemore, Oxford OX4 4PQ (No ISBN) £8.50
Musicians in the ubiquitous pub session gen- erally have a set way of going about it: the fiddles, the flutes and the concertinas play the melody, with guitars and squeezebox left hand ends supplying chordal accompani- ments. In England, however, the way these tunes were played 200 years ago was rather different. Village bands consisting of what - ever string or wind instruments were avail- able locally would accompany the hymns in church and supply music for dances, using two-, three- or four-part settings that have survived in the musicians’ manuscript books.
Having released two books of music from that period set in part arrangements of his own devising, Dave Townsend – whose Mellstock Band specialises in the style – now turns his attention to the repertoire common- ly played in modern English music sessions. Harper’s Frolic, Dennis Murphy’s, The Keel Row, Salmon Tails and Winster Galop have appeared in many a tune book before, but never in settings like these. Some are in three parts, others in four, with the lowest part written in bass clef, and there’s a good bal- ance struck between keeping the music with- in the scope of an average player, and mak- ing each part sufficiently interesting that no- one falls off their chair with the tedium of thumping along on one note. Dot-reading is essential, of course.
Having sat in a session where this book was widely used, I can vouch for the satisfac- tion of hearing individual lines come togeth- er to form a pleasingly harmonic whole. The sound is distinctive and in a way archaic, but rumbustuous and fun, and this book will be welcomed by musicians who like to do more than just play the tune.
Brian Peters
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