Tune Req: Oopich / Ookpik Waltz

Subject: Tune Req: Oopich (sp?) waltz, old time fiddle
From: twingles
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 11:02 PM

Looking for some new tunes for my 10 yr old son to play in an old time fiddle contest. This was recommended, but I can't find a trace of it! The name relates to an owl, I think. Ring a bell for anybody? Looking for the tune and/or a recording. Thanks!!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Oopich (sp?) waltz, old time fiddle
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 11:22 PM

It's the Ookpik Waltz, and there's an old thread about it here, including, I believe, the tune. "Ookpik" is apparently a native Alaskan (Inuit?) word for "snowy owl."

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Oopich (sp?) waltz, old time fiddle
From: JWB
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 11:37 PM

There's a tune called The Ootpik Waltz on Wild Asparagus' CD Tone Roads. The tune is also in one of the volumes of The Waltz Book (can't recall which one).

Jerry

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Oopich (sp?) waltz, old time fiddle
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 11:41 PM

See threads 20746 and 48052
Ookpik
Ookpik

Ookpik stuffed owls used to be in stores here in Canada. Haven't looked, but probably still available.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Oopich (sp?) waltz, old time fiddle
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 12:11 AM

I wonder if the name comes from trying to ask for a "toothpick" when you have a mouthful of stuffed owl...

Aloha,
Mark
(expecting a hail of snowballs from up North)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Oopich (sp?) waltz, old time fiddle
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 01:52 PM

Official Notice to Mark Cohen, revoking his Honorary Canadian Citizenship Certificate....

Mark, I have been trying to remember just how the Ookpik doll popularity came about. It was a promotion of some kind. I know we suckered and bought a couple to give to kids. My wife thinks we may have one, and is digging around in the basement looking for it.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Oopich (sp?) waltz, old time fiddle
From: twingles
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 03:08 PM

Thanks to all! Twingles