#roe stephens

[questionableadvice]

~ Roe Stephens musical instruments, 1877 (page 69 of the New York Clipper Almanac, page links are broken but pdf link works)

"My Tambourines are Unequaled. My Bones Are Immense."

Watch Dom Flemons explain the basics of playing the bones and play some music.

[detroitlib]

View of a advertising card for Roe Stephens, depicting a manor house in landscape. Printed on front: "Roe Stephens. Compliments of Roe Stephens. 184 & 186 Woodward Ave., Detroit. The popular music store. Copyrighted 1883 by E. Wolf, Phila."

Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library