![]() ![]() (Reproduced under Creative Commons license) (cross-tunings for those hell-bent on going over to the dark side from Wikipedia’s excellent page on cross-tuning )įCGD = Cajun Tuning (one whole step down from GDAE)ĭDAD = Dead Man’s Tuning, or Open D Tuning, or Bonaparte’s Retreat Tuning, or “Dee-Dad”ĪDAE = High Bass Tuning, Old-Timey D TuningĪEAE = Cross Tuning, “Cross A”, “High Bass, High Counter” (or “High Bass, High Tenor”), Cross Chord similar to Sawmill TuningĪEAC♯ = Black Mountain Rag Tuning, Calico Tuning, Open A Tuning, or Drunken Hiccups Tuning Here’s a note on cross-tuning, previously published in ‘ Newt Payne’s Tune’ (From the Appalachian Center Collection, Berea College Southern Appalachian Archives. He was a close friend of fiddler John Salyer (see ‘ Last of Harris’). ![]() ‘Fiddler Bill’ Stepp (1845 –1947), of Magoffin County, Kentucky, was the last fiddler to be captured on disc machine by Alan and Elizabeth Lomax during their Kentucky song-collecting expedition. (‘Bill Stepp’s Ways of the World – Andy FitzGibbon’ YouTube video, 2.31. Teaching video for the 2014 Cowan Creek Mountain Music School advanced fiddle class. (More on Bill Stepp and cross-tuning below.) The fiddle is cross-tuned AEAE, giving that characteristic Old Time ring from the sympathetic drone strings. Laurel Premo: website (Fiddletails has also featured Laurel’s acclaimed duo Red Tail Ring – use the Search box to find posts of their compelling music.)Īndy Fitzgibbon teaches a lively 3-part, crooked Kentucky tune as played by fiddler William Hamilton Stepp in 1937. In the meantime, you can find out more about their many other projects here: The duo will be releasing an album this autumn – and I’ll be featuring a tune from it as soon as it’s available. (‘Sally In The Garden – Premo & Gustavsson’ YouTube video, 4.06. Laurel Premo (gourd banjo), Anna Gustavsson (nyckelharpa) *For more information on cross-tuning, see post Newt Payne’s Tune, and/or Search ‘cross-tuning’ to find other cross-tuned melodies. The tune has an interesting thread on banjohangout The gourd banjo is a few steps lower from the standard banjo tuning, but the relationships on the strings are the same as you’d find in double C.’ Laurel Premo says of her gourd banjo: ‘I use a version of the “double c” tuning. This version of the melody is usually played in Dm, but here it’s in Am. I love Premo & Gustavsson’s rendering for the hauntingly off-world sounds from their uncommon pairing of indigenous Swedish and American folk instruments. Originally a bawdy ballad, there are two basic versions of this Appalachian Kentucky tune, some more crooked than others. )ĭuncan Winkel Facebook Duo with Lily Henley (‘ BRITTANY HAAS & FRIENDS: Bill Malley’s Barndance & E-B-E Reel’, YouTube video 6.59. ![]() This set was the encore at a private notloB Parlour Concert in Watertown, Massachusetts. An Old Time playing of an Irish tune by fiddler Bill Malley of County Clare, Ireland – first in a set with a stonking rendering of the upbeat E-B-E Reel, composed by Irish-American fiddler Liz Carroll.Īs well as additional notes on these musicians and tunes, video-poster secondcousincurly writes a fascinating piece here on the importance of fiddle camps to American traditional music.īrittany Haas, Lily Henley, Duncan Winkel, Kellen Zakula (fiddles), Natalie Haas (cello), Rene del Fierro (guitar) ![]()
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