10 Best Fiddle Tunes

Subject: RE: 10 Best Fiddle Tunes
From: GUEST,Harry
Date: 12 Jun 22 - 09:50 AM

Fairly easy to learn but difficult to master, and one of my favourite's:

Andy Thorburn's Marni Swanson played by Jonny Hardy

Subject: RE: 10 Best Fiddle Tunes
From: Lighter
Date: 12 Jun 22 - 10:48 AM

There are a number of outstanding and uncomplicated tunes in the great Robin Williamson's "English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish Fiddle Tunes" (1976).

Used to be there was a vinyl CD enclosed too!

(Oddly enough, W. seems to have given up the fiddle forty or more years ago. If so, does anybody know why? He was top-notch.)

Subject: RE: 10 Best Fiddle Tunes
From: StephenH
Date: 12 Jun 22 - 01:53 PM

Let me just put in a plug for Nigel Gatherer's Traditional Music Website.
A really nice collection of tunes for mandolin.
I have been learning some Shetland tunes on the fiddle, along with a
couple of Welsh ones, "Merch Megan" and "Dawns Y Pystyll", a few Morris
tunes and so forth.
Easily learned even for a slow player like me.

Subject: RE: 10 Best Fiddle Tunes
From: Helen
Date: 12 Jun 22 - 03:53 PM

Robin Williamson seems to be focusing on the harp, I think.

Subject: RE: 10 Best Fiddle Tunes
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 24 Jun 22 - 02:09 PM

Yes, Harry, Marnie Swanson is a lovely tune: notes not difficult, but really needs good phrasing - which makes it difficult to play in a group, unless everyone is listening hard to, and going with, the lead player.

Subject: RE: 10 Best Fiddle Tunes
From: Piers Plowman
Date: 24 Jun 22 - 02:24 PM

No one mentioned the beautiful tune "The Girl I Left Behind Me" or its cousin "Country Gardens".