in the case to the left of thomas carr's first edition of t "the star spangled banner," is james huet'sbanner. i believe on one of huet's publications in east 1816 or 1817, he specified in full type at the bottom of the page, i have composed a new melody to frances scott key's words because of the many complaints of its difficulty of things. so we're talking two years after it was written. ironically, huet's version is even harder to sing. and that's why it only survived in several editions it was republished into the early and mid 1820s, someone tried publishing again in the 1840s and it just lost completely. let me give you a little bit of its flavor, because it's s a di words. here's somebody's fresh take in 1816 about how could he make a melody fly represent the militaitaryistic moment that he describes. and i think this is successful. i haven't worked up a full keyboard version of it. the six string guitar, 1814 into 1815, 1301820, this was the newer version of the old colonial style 11 spring guitar. they show up in the hands handse thomas wall theater collection at the historical