Talk:Blind Tom Wiggins

message: This article doesn't even mention what instrument Tom Wiggins plays! Drums? Tuba? Harmonica?
:Note-It has stated it was piano for awhile now, the above was an old message by an anonymous person.--T. Anthony 06:42, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The gist of Schonberg's page on Blind Tom is that people without a clue about music judged Tom to be a remarkable talent, and that "qualified musical observers wrote in [to Dwight's Journal of Music] [making] it clear that the boy could not do a fiftieth of the things credited to him. As a matter of fact, he could not do anything except play back a few tunes he knew". Schonberg goes on to mention that Halle and Moscheles (trustworthy experts of the time) said that Blind Tom was judged to have absolute pitch when he visited England in 1866. But that's about it. 
The article as it stands gives a distorted view of Blind Tom's life and significance. Instead of a remarkable musical prodigy, it seems he was more a pathetic curiosity for the racist and ignorant audiences he appeared before.  Art Tatum was a musical genius and jazz piano super-virtuoso first, and a blind Black man second. It is no benefit to the estimation of Black musicians to exaggerate the talent of the poor, exploited, Blind Tom.
--AlkanSite 03:24, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hype? I think so 

message: With all due respect, the section headed "Professional Career" only shows one source. This doesn't make the section's claims any stronger than you claim Schonberg's to be.dr-t 19:19, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Oh?

message: “Weekly Sumter Republican”
Americus, Georgia
August 12, 1871
“Death of P.H. Oliver”
   “It is our sad office this morning to chronicle the death of Mr. Perry H. Oliver, at his residence in this city, about noon last Sunday, the 6th inst. He was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery on the afternoon of last Monday, the funeral and burial services being conducted by Dr. G.F. Cooper, of the Baptist Church.
   “The large company of friends present to perform the last kindly offices, attested the high esteem in which Mr. Oliver was held by the citizens of this place and now the bereavements of his family is felt and regarded as a great affliction common to the whole city.
   “For about seventeen years Mr. Oliver had been a valued member of this community, liberal, public-spirited, generous and enterprising. He had always been a popular man, and soon after his removal to our city, was honored with the office of Mayor by the vote of our people, having been elected the first Mayor of Americus.
   “At one time of his life, Mr. Oliver was known throughout the world as the owner and exhibitor of the wonderful musical boy, Blind Tom, whom he first brought before the public in America and carried on a tour throughout Europe.
   “Especially was he the friend of young men, ever ready to speak to them a kind word to cheer and to aid them, and generous and free in rendering them support in their endeavors and encouragement and assistance in their enterprises and efforts. We are sure there are not a few of these in our city to whom his cherished memory will always be a pleasant and a grateful recollection, and from whose hearts, now made shadowy by the gloom of this death, there comes forth the whispered and fervent good-bye:  “Peace to his honored ashes.”
   Mr. Oliver was born in the city of Macon, and was about forty-five years of age, and seemed from his find and robust appearance to have a long lease of days yet before him for usefulness and enjoyment; but suddenly and unexpectedly he has fallen by the blade of the unswerving reaper.
   “His family has the heartfelt sympathy and condolences of the host of friends who honored and esteemed him in life, and now sincerely mourn him gone from them and this world forever.”
Transcribed by Alan Anderson, archivist, Sumter Historic Trust, Inc., Americus, Georgia  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.217.195.99 (talk) 23:16:45, August 18, 2007 (UTC) 
reformatted as block quote--Da Stressor 21:34, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perry H. Oliver and "Blind Tom" 

message: Is there a specific reason the page is titled "Blind Tom Wiggins" instead of "Thomas Wiggins"? Should the page be moved?
Theadamgaskins (talk) 03:10, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move page? 

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message: What was the origin of the Greene surname? Was he believed to have been fathered by a slaveowner named Greene? I ask simply because Bethune's daughter Cherry married CSA Major Cornelius Boyle after his first wife (Greene, well connected in the CSA) had died and Boyle had begun listing himself immediately as a musician in the 1870 census despite no sign of any musical inclination whatsoever...except some level of relationship with Cherry Bethune that culminated in an 1877 marriage. IronicCaptchaToday (talk) 20:52, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
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