Early English Banjo

 

 This original John P. Cuninghame composition dates from the late First World War period when he was a young RFC pilot stationed at the military aerodrome at Bulford, Wiltshire a short distance from where his friend Joe Morley was living on London Road in Salisbury. Wainalong Road was, and is, an immediately adjacent road to Morley's address that Cuninghame and Richard Tarrant Bailey together frequently visited on banjo excursions. Given the absence of any other source references to the name it is a reasonable deduction that this is the origin of Cuninghame's title. Currently no manuscript for this composition has been traced and the notation is transcribed from a cylinder recording of Jack Cuninghame playing his tune, and recorded by Richard Tarrant Bailey either at his home in Park Street, Bath, at the venue of the Bath Banjo Club or at Morley's home in Salisbury. The former is more likely, though Tarrant Bailey is known to have transported his cumbersome early recording ...