The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #73761   Message #1283338
Posted By: Geoff the Duck
28-Sep-04 - 02:08 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Dubuque or Debuque?
Subject: RE: Origins: Dubuque or Debuque?
Okay folks - you've told us how to spell it. Now can somebody explain how I should pronounce it?
Serious question - honest!
It is a tune I first heard about 20 years back on one of Bill Spence's (Fennigs All Stars) hammered dulcimer records. It is one I never got around to learning, but as I am teaching myself to play Old-time fiddle, it seems like one I ought to get to grips with. Which - of course - leaves me with the problem that if somebody asks the title of the tune, I can at this point only guess how locals would pronounce the name.
Can anybody put it down in non-expert phonetics - i.e. "sounds like" ....

And thanks to Wilfried Schaum for the link to The Fiddler's Companion website. It seems to be an absolute gem just for its cross-referencing of alternatiuve titles for tunes, plus the listing of related tunes. When we then add the number of them which are in ABC format so we can listen to them if we don't already know the tune.
I've got it bookmarked.
Quack!!
Geoff the Duck.