Music For A Found Harmonium

Subject: Music For A Found Harmonium
From: GUEST,dbgrate in Boston
Date: 02 May 04 - 11:56 PM

On a CD by the group Patrick Street,there's a tune,"Music For A Found Harmonium".Would anyone know if the guitar part(Ged Foley)is an open tuning?..if so,which one..if not,any help is greatly appreciated!!

Subject: RE: Music For A Found Harmonium
From: The Shambles
Date: 03 May 04 - 02:57 AM

Not sure if it is open tuned, nor in fact if he was playing guitar on that track and not a bouzouki type instrument. If he was, the key is (mainly) D, if that helps.

Subject: RE: Music For A Found Harmonium
From: Jim McCallan
Date: 03 May 04 - 03:20 AM

There have been a few threads on the subject, from what I can gather: Here, and here.

Jim

Subject: RE: Music For A Found Harmonium
From: Jim McCallan
Date: 03 May 04 - 03:23 AM

I beg your pardon; I put - Music For A Found Harmonium - into the Forum search at the top of the page, and tried to link to that above. Perhaps you can try again, yourself..

There is a message, here, though, which gives the chords. (which was meant to be the second post, above)...

Jim

Subject: RE: Music For A Found Harmonium
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 03 May 04 - 10:07 AM

Music for a Found Harmonium is one (of about 6 or 7) that I omitted a couple of years ago when I recompiled a local session book of about 650 tunes. The Jeffes' website that I found indicated that the copyright is "active" and gave an email address for information on use, but they didn't reply to my email. I couldn't tell from the information given whether the copyright was being enforced by "heirs of Simon Jeffes" or by a member of his former group.

The tune is in the first edition of The Portland Collection that I have, and I assume it is also in the (I think current) second edition. The Portland Collection notes the "© Simon Jeffes" and a "Used by Permission," but that doesn't really tell you whether they paid to use it or just received permission.

As related info, the only other tune that I found a clear copyright for was March of St. Timothy by Judi Morningstar. It is also in Portland with a "by permission" noted. I found contact information for Judi; but in the "rush to publish" I just didn't get around to making the contact, so it was also omitted.

Both these tunes are popular in local sessions, and it would not be stretching it to place March of St. Timothy in the very popular category. People in my area have lots of "downloaded" copies of both, so they're fairly easily availabe. ("St. Timothy" often shows up as March of the Keebler Elves. I don't know whether Judi "approved" that title.)

The other few that I omitted were cases where some copies indicated probable copyright, but I was unable to find confirmation of a "holder" for one. (A couple of these probably were © arrangements of trad tunes; but I wasn't able to trace them.) None of the others were particularly popular in local sessions.

John

Subject: RE: Music For A Found Harmonium
From: s&r
Date: 03 May 04 - 01:22 PM

Wasn't music to a found harmonium written by Simon Jeffe in the Penguin Cafe Orchestra? Their version was certainly the first I heard

Subject: RE: Music For A Found Harmonium
From: s&r
Date: 03 May 04 - 01:23 PM

they're here by the way

Subject: RE: Music For A Found Harmonium
From: Seaking
Date: 03 May 04 - 02:47 PM

dbgrate, I remember working this out in DADGAD a few years ago and getting it fairly close. I couldn't guarantee that was the original Patrick street tuning but it worked ok so maybe you could try it and see how you get on. Good luck, it's a challenging tune..

CK

Subject: RE: Music For A Found Harmonium
From: mooman
Date: 03 May 04 - 04:54 PM

Not sure what Jed plays it in but it works quite well for me in DADGAD as for Seaking.

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: Music For A Found Harmonium
From: s&r
Date: 03 May 04 - 05:12 PM

This version's in DADGAD

stu

Subject: RE: Music For A Found Harmonium
From: GUEST,dbgrate in Boston
Date: 03 May 04 - 11:10 PM

WHAT A WEBSITE!! Thanks to everyone for the prompt and interesting replies.Where else could one get a response like this? Great!

Subject: RE: Music For A Found Harmonium
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 04 May 04 - 10:25 PM

F.Y.I. - Harriet Bartlett does a wonderful rendition of the piece on her Greentrax CD.