Tune Req: where to find fiddle tunes

Subject: where to find old time fiddle tunes
From: GUEST,Duffy Keith
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 12:56 PM

Where might one go to download old timey fiddle tune sheet music......DK

Subject: RE: Tune Req: where to find fiddle tunes
From: GUEST,Knicke
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 04:17 PM

DK, I don't know!!!! I've been searching all over and can only find audio files. Let me know if something turns up!

K

Subject: RE: Tune Req: where to find fiddle tunes
From: Thyme2dream
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 04:45 PM

I don't know any sheet music sites first hand, but you might check out this link:

Bluegrass & Swing Music Magazine
This site has an archive of live jam sessions with some of bluegrass music's best fiddlers, some of the field recordings go back as far as 1954. There are also some tabs for some of the tunes and I believe a links page. If nothing else, e-mail Jim Moss who runs the site...a great fiddler in his own right who loves the old-timey traditions and would be glad to point you in the right direction if he can!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: where to find fiddle tunes
From: harpgirl
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 04:53 PM

JC's ABC tune web...

Subject: RE: Tune Req: where to find fiddle tunes
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 11:30 PM

First, there is no such thing as a fiddle tune, really. Anyone could take a tune and play it on piano, recorder, flute, dulcimer, or tuba. So don't look for fiddle tunes, just look for good tunes.

Start with Richard Robinson's Tune Book. It has links to other sites.

Or you could just buy the Fiddler's Fakebook (alternative title: 50,000 Eighth Notes) for $25 and save yourself a lot of time.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: where to find fiddle tunes
From: Alice
Date: 24 Oct 00 - 10:15 AM

Richard Robinson's Tune Websearch click here

The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection click here

JC's abc tune finderclick here

Chris Ricker's Fiddle Page click here

Use abc software for PC or Mac and you can convert abc format into gif images of the notation.click here - The abc Home Page

John of the Greeny Cheshire Way - tunes in abc click here

Another tune finder click here

Subject: RE: Tune Req: where to find fiddle tunes
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 18 Feb 02 - 02:45 AM

I keep having computer crashes, not the ones that destroy my hard drive any more, but ones that cause me to lose data, particularly stuff like my Mudcat cookie and browser favorites. In my most recent event, I lost a great source of fiddle tune sound files I found in the forum. It appeared in a thread started by someone, as I remember, who asked how to learn to accompany fiddle tunes, and it had MIDIs or MPEGs or Quick Time files for hundreds of fiddle tunes. Recently I tried finding it via a Google search, and although I didn't succeed, I did find one good source of MIDIs:

http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/celtic/celtic.html

(a little blue clicky magic would help here).

And can anyone direct me to that thread and its link to the fiddle tunes site?

--seed

Subject: RE: Tune Req: where to find fiddle tunes
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 18 Feb 02 - 04:15 AM

This might be the site you're looking for, seed: Old Time Music MIDI Archive. Note: it works better in Explorer than in Netscape. (I was the one who started the thread on fiddle tune backup--which turned up lots of good information and advice.)

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Tune Req: where to find fiddle tunes
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 18 Feb 02 - 06:57 PM

Hey, Mark, thanks. That's the one. How are things in Hilo?

Charles

Subject: RE: Tune Req: where to find fiddle tunes
From: Stewie
Date: 18 Feb 02 - 08:36 PM

There is also this one:

Roots of American Fiddle Music

--Stewie.