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Thread #20746   Message #217745
Posted By: Homeless
25-Apr-00 - 02:25 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Ookpik Waltz
Subject: RE: Ookpik Waltz - Any Info?
I've heard it on two CD's - Wild Asparagus' "Tone Roads" and Geoff Seitz's "The Good Old Days Are Here." This is from the liner notes of Geoff's CD

'When I lived in Spokane, WA and was a member of the Washington State Old Time Fiddlers, I was told repeatedly that this waltz was an Inuit Eskimo melody. Mark Gunther of Chicago, IL told me that the words "ook pik" could possibly mean "owl." I've heard it in other keys and called "The Canadian Waltz."'