Name Some Fiddle Tunes

Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes
From: open mike
Date: 04 Oct 12 - 02:15 PM

look on http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind
John Chamber's tune finder for thousands of others..
also Cole's 1000 fiddle tunes book and others pointed out here by Vivian Williams
http://www.voyagerrecords.com/arbook.htm

of fiddlers fake book
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fiddler%27s_Fakebook

http://edbaggott.com/ has several nice tunes on his web page

Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 04 Oct 12 - 02:25 PM

Lots of Morris tunes have funny names. I don't know much about it, perhaps they're the names of the actual dances that go with them. But I'm thinking of Bonny Green Garters, Y-Fronts, Tabletop Hornpipe, Speed The Plough, Postman's Knock, Kingston Black, Fanny Frail, Shepherds Hey etc. (I have an obsession with Morris dancing.)

Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 04 Oct 12 - 02:43 PM

I'd forgotten one with the pithy title: "Paresis"

Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes
From: GUEST,PatrickH
Date: 05 Oct 12 - 09:12 AM

I heard a lovely setting of the Wind That Shakes the Barely from Australia, called "The Bullshit Over the Calf-Pen."

Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes
From: Les from Hull
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 02:02 PM

I've always enjoyed the intentionally mis-named tunes as in:
Varnish my foreskin for Banish misfortune
Barnsley pilgrim for Blarney pilgrim
The slimy road to Otago for the tarry road to Sligo

Any more?

Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 03:11 PM

My personal favorite that is NOT a slow waltz is Ragtime Annie

There are many, many versions of it on YouTube..but the fastest I ever heard is by this 7 yr old.. I don't 'approve', but it is amazing.

The best version was by Joe Birchfield of The Roan Mountain Hilltoppers

Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 07:08 PM

"I have a few untitled pieces of my own floating around, and plenty of personally experienced animal related incidents to draw titles from. Maybe I'll call one of them "Whitetails in the Sweet 'Tater Patch", "Coons in the Cat Dish", or "Turkey Buzzards in the Big Pine Tree". " Bee-dubya-ell

Around here it would be more common to name one "Black Bear in the Dog Food." Happens a lot.

Subject: RE: Name Some Fiddle Tunes
From: BanjoRay
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 09:08 PM

Some Old Time tunes from the USA:

Sal's Got Mud Between Her Toes
Who Shat In Grandpa's Hat
Flatfoot In The Ashes
Shaving A Dead Man
Briar Picker Brown
Old Aunt Jenny With Her Nightcap On
Shaking Down The Acorns
Wild Hog In The Woods
Squirrel Hunters

.....and thousands more.
Ray