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Thread #111430   Message #2348026
Posted By: GUEST,Hootenanny
24-May-08 - 05:36 AM
Thread Name: Help ID this fiddle tune
Subject: RE: Help ID this fiddle tune
To me this is just another version of a tune that seems to be known throughout the states and UK under various names; Rustic Dance, Schottische, Rochester Schottische, Parkersburg Landing, Heel and Toe Polka etc etc. I once made up a tape of versions from Kentucky, Lousiana (a cajun version) Virginia, East Anglia in the UK and more that I cannot presently recall. My theory is that it was a tune used by traveling dance masters and that the locals heard it, picked it up and played their own versions via the usual folk process. But I ain't a fiddle player so what do I know?

Call it what you like everybody else seems to have done so.

Hoot