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Lovering moved around between
Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York during his adult life, rarely able to maintain steady work. He married Sally Eames in 1802. Lovering and many of his family members suffered from a form of muscular atrophy known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome that limited their
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Lovering's books have been referred to as sloppy and full of errors, and since he did not play the fife nor refer to fife tunes in his works, the drum beatings are not directly correlated to any precise version of the tunes they are based upon. The books were useful tools, however, since they were
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Robbins, Isaac Day, and other sources from the late 18th and early 19th century, though not likely directly stolen or infringed upon. It was simply the standard practice of the time. The book was issued in a second edition in 1823 by J.G. Klemm.
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Lieutenant Jesse Lovering and Marcie Jennings. He learned to play the drum from his father and cataloged 60 unique drum beatings between 1792 and 1805. He published this collection in a book called
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intended for self-taught drummers and contain information on technique. Other sources in this era sometimes relied on prose descriptions of drum beatings, so notation of any kind was helpful.
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