What's your new fiddle tune?

[Mike Snyder]

The GREEN DULCIMER. Winfield winner and great tune.

[Jack Roberts]

Colonel Robertson's March

[woodwizard]

Here are some friends doing Floyd the Barber.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrGjs0ihtzM

Those Mando Mafia boys are just too cool. I have a version of that on a "Best of Clifftop" CD. Awesome!

[Jim Nollman]

Hey guys, take a listen to the Chris Coole/Ivan Rosenberg version of Farewell Trion. Masterful arrangement. And with no mandolin, it's a great tune to add your own, and learn to play it.

[Mandolin Mick]

I'm currently working on "Lost Indian" by Red Smiley & the Bluegrass Cut-ups. I believe that's Gene Burris on the mandolin.

Does anybody know if that's Sam Bush playing mandolin on Kenny Baker's version of "Lost Indian"? Sounds very much like Mr. Bill himself ...

[Charles E.]

Those Mando Mafia boys are just too cool. I have a version of that on a "Best of Clifftop" CD. Awesome!

They are a lot of fun, I'll be seeing them at Rockbridge this weekend.

[woodwizard]

The version we do of "Fort Smith" revisited ... front porch pickin with my friends the other day.

[jstout]

Turkey in The straw, and for this Greenhorn was quite a feat took me 26 days to get it fluid.

[doc holiday]

JS 26 days to get fluid? Sisterdale (?) must be awful dry, I didn't find the bars so far apart in Austin

[jstout]

JS 26 days to get fluid? Sisterdale (?) must be awful dry, I didn't find the bars so far apart in Austin

Well I hafta admit since the medical profession deemed a couple shots of good whiskey healthy, I keep a quart handy. always knew it must have some medicinal value
So allow me to reinterate my playing became passable after 26 days of hard work. I keep trying to remember who that $&@/;$&(& was that told me mandolin was easier than guitar.
Good luck

[stevejay]

Pig on the engine and Cuffey. Cuffey is fairly easy. Tableedit really helps getting down POTE, it's a fine tune, and makes me realize what a good key F can be for the mandolin.

[JeffD]

Farewell Trion. What a fun tune.

[woodwizard]

We play Cuffey in (G). Cool tune!

[Sandy Beckler]

Sunshine Hornpipe...

[Mike Bunting]

Land of Lincoln and going back and polishing up My Father's Footsteps.

[Chip Booth]

Tim O's Land's End

[Mike Black]

President Garfield's Hornpipe in Bb and Old French.

[Trey Young]

Been working on Old Chattanooga from the Haints Shout Monah album. Any body else got a version of this worked up? Would love to see a video if so...

[Jim Garber]

Salty River Reel (Cyril Stinnett) and Miller's Reel (JP Fraley) + some nameless Finnish waltzes

[Mike Black]

Been working on Old Chattanooga from the Haints Shout Monah album. Any body else got a version of this worked up? Would love to see a video if so...

I play Chattanooga. I learned it from James Bryan. Here is a video of Erynn Marshall and Carl Jones playing it. Carl & Erynn play with James frequently. James played it a little different. His version is a lot smoother.

[Jim Nollman]

Hambo från Gästrikland. works great as a round with a fiddle. The Hambo beat is 3/4 with different accents than a waltz.

[Randi Gormley]

Mooncoin Jig and Monaghan's jig (I know, I should have learned these years ago), along with Callaghan's Hornpipe

[Mike Black]

Been working on Old Chattanooga from the Haints Shout Monah album. Any body else got a version of this worked up? Would love to see a video if so...

Trey,
Here is an MP3 of our version of Chattanooga.

[Jack Roberts]

Massasoit Hornpipe. The tune caught my eye because Massasoit has many streets and places named after him near where I used to live. He died in 1665, but I can't find any information about how old this fiddle tune is. Anyone know?

I'm playing the version from "Mandolin Player's Pastime".

[Jim Garber]

Massasoit Hornpipe. The tune caught my eye because Massasoit has many streets and places named after him near where I used to live. He died in 1665, but I can't find any information about how old this fiddle tune is. Anyone know?

I'm playing the version from "Mandolin Player's Pastime" .

It is also very holiday relevant for this week.

According to Andy Kunst's site it goes at least back to 1883:

MASSASOIT HORNPIPE. American, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Massasoit was Chief of the Wampanog Indians, who attended the first Thanksgiving in the new colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts. The previous winter had been a hard one—nearly half of the original 102 Pilgrims perished—and Massasoit and his tribesmen had helped the survivors by teaching them how to plant the native corn, using fish fertilizer. That autumn the harvest had been plenty, and the game abundant, and in thanks Governor Bradford invited Massasoit and ninety of his warriors to the feast; thus, as Stuart Berg Flexner points out (in Listening to America, 1982) the Native Americans outnumbered the Pilgrims at the meal. Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 93. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; pg. 128.

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