Ook Pik Waltz

[John in Randolph NJ]

Martin 00016 guitar
Miller mando

I saw Chris Thile play this tune live and fell in love with it. Of course he played it brilliantly. I'm just having fun with it. I play guitar, bass and mando on this track. - John in NJ

http://dupecoop.net/OokPikWaltz_001.mp3

[Avi Ziv]

Great! One of the first tunes I ever learned too.

Thanks
Avi

[AlanN]

Lovely.

[dtb]

yes, very nice, recording is great also.

[Amandalyn]

Is this tune usually played in Key of G?

[AlanN]

Is this a Mike Marshall tune?

[sgarrity]

It's a traditional waltz. Sometimes called the Snowey Owl Waltz or Ootpick Waltz. Not sure if Marshall has recorded it or not though.

[lmartnla]

This is beautiful. Any tab you or anybody has for this would be much appreciated. I Copied the notation from the Fiddler's Fakebook and translated it to mandolin tab. I passed the music to all the fiddle players I know. My group picked it up like gangbusters. We all love to play it but after introducing it, my lead just isn't where I want it to be, so any tab help would be very kind---Lou

I'm gonna send your mp3 along to my groups to stimulate some added ideas for us--Thanks

[blawson]

Danny Knicely does a really nice version on "Roots & Branches".

[Don Grieser]

While it often get attributed as a trad tune, The Session says:

"According to Andrew Kuntz’s Fiddlers Companion, it was composed by Frankie Rodgers, of Mission, British Columbia, who has published it in a tunebook of his compositions."

Beautiful job playing and a very nice recording. Care to share your recording chain? Sounds like the Miller mando is an oval?

[Amandalyn]

I think the tab is on mandozine- Tabledit files

[John in Randolph NJ]

Thanks for the comments.

I don't have a tab on this one, sorry. It's fairly simple though.

I record to ProTools using an Audiotechnica AT-4041 mic on mando and guitar. It's generally used for drums as an overhead mic but works nicely on acoustic string instruments.

The Miller (not a Stan Miller) mando is a cheap f-style and I have no idea where it comes from - probably Korea. I bought it on eBay and the seller didn't know much about it. I just got a new Michael Kelly Legacy Elegante that's very nice - just have to play it a lot to loosen up the sound.

The first mando I bought (about a year and a half ago) was a Fender a-style (also through eBay). Here's a song I recorded on that instrument, a Mark Schatz tune called "The Falling Waters of Arden":

http://dupecoop.net/FALLINGWATERSFINALMIX.mp3

[brianunitt]

There is a nice version on Altan's "Another Sky" and I enjoy playing along with the version on "Sets in the City" by Tipsy House Band. Yours is a really pretty rendering.

[doc holiday]

This is indeed a Frankie Rodgers tune.
Frankie is an incredible fiddler. I saw him with a pick-up band at the Bluegrass Workshop in Sorrento BC with Emory Lester on mandolin & Cody Kilby on guitar and Mickey Harris on bass. Frankie is a consumate performer!:)

[woodwizard]

I just learned this pretty tune so I think it's kind of funny that I ran across this fairly old thread about it. The fiddle player in my OT band plays it all the time. That's where I first heard it. He gave some sheet music and on it and it also says that this tune is sometimes called "Eskimo Waltz" and "Utpik Waltz". My wife played it on the piano for me sense I can't read music that well. It helped me get started on it and when I found the tab at mandozine that really did it for me. We play it in G.
Here's the tab link.

http://www.mandozine.com/music/search_results.php?searchfor=ookpik+waltz&tuneselectby=C&mandolevel=&category=&songkey=&artist=&transcriber=&sortby=T&sortorder=A&submit=

[Eddie Sheehy]

It's in the Song-A-Week Social Group, with ABC and TEF