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Originally posted by NCnotes

Anja,Bedankt! yes, I have seen some kind of “vedel” when I saw the local Early Music Ensemble… and players had violinish objects that they held on their knee!

Latest tunes here:
Tom Billy’s / Mooncoin ( great set, seems consistently liked by “punters”)

Limestone Rock reel

What’s everybody playing? :-)

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I'm still Learning "Sheila Coyles" and finding a lot out about the timing of tri-pe-lets.

@Anja i think that the older bowed instruments and players seem to stay more true to older "Fiddling Ethics" than the modern violin techniques. Listening to your recordings i think that your playing seems to reflect this also?

Learning Drunken Hiccups as played by Clyde Davenport on a recording with Andy Cahan and Alice Gerrard. Black Mountain Rag was aimed too high. But this one is also a tune version I can listen to for hours! Love my usb stick <3 Nothing but good stuff on it :-)

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Originally posted by pete_fiddle

@Anja i think that the older bowed instruments and players seem to stay more true to older "Fiddling Ethics" than the modern violin techniques. Listening to your recordings i think that your playing seems to reflect this also?

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I consider that as an encouragement to keep on going   So thank you! It's crazy what one can learn from others  -even the greatest musicians and fiddle masters - when the mind is open.  

Wishing you and your family and friends the best for the coming holidays. 

The Black Velvet Band in G#D#G#D#!

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Originally posted by Quincy

The Black Velvet Band in G#D#G#D#!

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And currently obsessed Will The Circle Be Unbroken by Ernie Carpenter and Christmas Time is Coming by Hick Edmonds, Sue Taylor Edmonds and Art Taylor. MUST find out.

Man of Constant Sorrow

That's what I'm working on today. 

Frankie and Johnny, and Wagon Wheel, but mostly banjer.

Close to You

My 1st post timed out. This is an old Carpenters cover. I put the tablet on the fallboard of my piano. This is the cheapest Yamaha digital piano they made. It has weighted keys, piano feel. But that noise is my fingers on the keys. I suppose I could pipe the signal to my Fly3 amp and Bluetooth over to the tablet. Yawn. But this is an mp3 and a photo. I'd say those tablet microphones are pretty sensitive.

Quincy - Don't know who those people are, or if this is the same song, but I thought you might enjoy this 1951 (and first) recording by Bill Monroe of "Christmas Time's a Comin'." youtu.be/FummTsGhpkw?si=xUcjX2AbHT6yBjFw
This song was written by "Tex" Logan, who was a fiddler, but also an engineer at Bell Labs, with a masters degree from MIT and a doctorate from Columbia.. He sometimes came to see our band when we played in northern NJ, which was quite a treat.
Hope you're enjoying your holidays to the fullest.

Doug; nice song! 

The recordings I mentioned are on Slippery Hill:
https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/will-circle-be-unbroken
https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/christmas-time-coming

Doug, that's the only Christmas song I care to play!
Had a dear friend that could play and sing Oh, Holy Night. I can't even try.

Maghera Mountain...STILL playing it and STILL don't sound like Martin Hayes..

Hahaha Tuneweaver, I know how that feels :-p I think the how the hell did he/she/ they do that? while listening to a tune- feeling I live with is ahem a lifelong experience. Good that I have my YouTuybe channel, this way at least i can witness some kind of progress...

Started on Sal's got mud.... I don't have many 3 part fiddle tunes.

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Started on Sal's got mud.... I don't have many 3 part fiddle tunes.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKQs9wmGB9U

...my favorite version - the one I learned from.  GREAT tune.

This week it’s Peacock Rag by Fiddlin Arthur Smith -- a fine tune with lots of room to make it even finer!

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Originally posted by Strabo

This week it’s Peacock Rag by Fiddlin Arthur Smith -- a fine tune with lots of room to make it even finer!

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What key? If I may ask?

Nice to hear that everybody is out there fiddlin' away!
Happy New Year!

Nothing special here, but I changed my strings and WOW. So much better.
With string crossings my bow was sometimes not catching right, and there were occasional 'wolf notes' or squawks or something...all gone with the new strings! The sound is much better too, more resonant. So if you haven't changed your strings for a while, give it a try...:-).

I tend to get lazy about it, and put it off until it's really bugging me... but after some point, it really does make it harder to play!

Here's another version of Sal's Got Mud Between Her Toes -- great fun to play, especially in ADAE tuning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrUk8tpL7tQ

NCnotes - What kind of strings did you install?

I'm learning two more tunes that I heard on videos I watched.
O'Neil's March: I knew this tune from way back when a local band played it.
Terrier Waltz: I heard recently on a documentary, what a pretty tune. Couldn't find the dots to this one so I'm learning it by ear.
Both tunes I found the name of with "search for a song" on my phone.

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Originally posted by Strabo

 

Here's another version of Sal's Got Mud Between Her Toes -- great fun to play, especially in ADAE tuning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrUk8tpL7tQ

 

 

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This another one of "those tunes" that - depending on who you are playing with - you need to expect, there are going to be variations of where to start - what is the A part., the B, part, the C part - and how many times does each part get played. LOL...  fortunately - most of the melody is the same. Instead of calling it the A part, the B part, and the C part - I will usually refer to them as the lower part, the middle part, and the high part (as related to pitch). 

The version you posted starts on the middle part - only once, then plays the high part twice, and then the low part once.

The one I posted starts on the middle part and plays it twice, then the high part twice, then the low part twice,

This one starts on the middle / 2x, then the high / 2x. then low once. 

And this fella wants to teach us to start with the low part twice, then the middle part twice, and end with the high part twice.

And the only entry on Slippery-Hill is from Jon Bekoff - and his version starts on the low / once, the middle / once the the high part twice.

None of those guys wrote it. The person who is said to be responsible for the tune is a Kentucky fiddler named Pat Kingery.  Pat's version is the earliest recording. He was recorded playing the tune in his living room by Bruce Greene in 1976.  It is #9 here.   ahhhh ---- good luck trying to figure how the "parts are arranged, how many times to play through the part, and how many parts there are.    Seriously.

BTW - there are lyrics to this "song" , according to Pat Kingery (listen to the end of the recording. And according to what he says / "that used to be an old song" - it was a song the was sung - implying (to me) - he didn't write it. I found a copy of the lyrics here. They are: 

Here comes Sally down the road,
She's got mud between her toes,
Though her face is pretty as a pear,
She's got a yellow ribbon in her hair.

Yes. I play tuned ADae.

And now you know more than you wanted to. Who knows what is "right". 

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NCnotes - What kind of strings did you install?

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Trying out Violinos...low-tension and mellow / warm (which is the way I like to sound), and just as reviewed, they are responsive to light bow strokes. Price tag is more bearable than Obligatos (although with my Infrequent string changes, that is not a big factor!). Going great in week 1... let's see how they hold up!

Tunes: Starting on Shoemaker's Daughter (reel) and trying to finally nail down Poll Ha'Penny, pretty hornpipe which I  learned by osmosis at session...feel like I play a vaguely approximate version of it, haha.

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Originally posted by Strabo

 

Here's another version of Sal's Got Mud Between Her Toes -- great fun to play, especially in ADAE tuning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrUk8tpL7tQ

 

 

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This another one of "those tunes" that - depending on who you are playing with - you need to expect, there are going to be variations of where to start - what is the A part., the B, part, the C part - and how many times does each part get played. LOL...  fortunately - most of the melody is the same. Instead of calling it the A part, the B part, and the C part - I will usually refer to them as the lower part, the middle part, and the high part (as related to pitch). 

The version you posted starts on the middle part - only once, then plays the high part twice, and then the low part once.

The one I posted starts on the middle part and plays it twice, then the high part twice, then the low part twice,

This one starts on the middle / 2x, then the high / 2x. then low once. 

And this fella wants to teach us to start with the low part twice, then the middle part twice, and end with the high part twice.

And the only entry on Slippery-Hill is from Jon Bekoff - and his version starts on the low / once, the middle / once the the high part twice.

None of those guys wrote it. The person who is said to be responsible for the tune is a Kentucky fiddler named Pat Kingery.  Pat's version is the earliest recording. He was recorded playing the tune in his living room by Bruce Greene in 1976.  It is #9 here.   ahhhh ---- good luck trying to figure how the "parts are arranged, how many times to play through the part, and how many parts there are.    Seriously.

BTW - there are lyrics to this "song" , according to Pat Kingery (listen to the end of the recording. And according to what he says / "that used to be an old song" - it was a song the was sung - implying (to me) - he didn't write it. I found a copy of the lyrics here. They are: 

Here comes Sally down the road,
She's got mud between her toes,
Though her face is pretty as a pear,
She's got a yellow ribbon in her hair.

Yes. I play tuned ADae.

And now you know more than you wanted to. Who knows what is "right". 

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I like Sal’s Got Mud played low, middle, middle, high, high -- but that’s just me.

There are lots of these tunes where it’s not entirely clear which part gets played how many times. In my OT group sometimes we need to agree on the sequence, also on which part starts the tune.

Another of my favs is Chinese Breakdown, which is often played ABABABAB. But that seems a little rushed to me. I like it better AABBAABB.

Gosh, these fiddle tunes are so complicated, haha!