Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting

Subject: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: oombanjo
Date: 02 May 05 - 04:33 PM

Has anyone the old time banjo tab and Fiddle score for this, or knows where I can get it from. Cheers Oombanjo

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: Sorcha
Date: 02 May 05 - 04:44 PM

I found a sound file. Can you learn it by ear? No dots yet...

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: Sorcha
Date: 02 May 05 - 04:51 PM

Looks like you are going to have to buy a book.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: oombanjo
Date: 02 May 05 - 04:59 PM

Thanks Scorcha, I'll get that for my better half, is there one as good as that for frailing or clawhammer banjo.Thanks again Oombanjo

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: Sorcha
Date: 02 May 05 - 05:06 PM

Didn't find one, but here is some info. Scroll almost all the way down. Click me!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 03 May 05 - 01:12 AM

Search under "Chinquapin Hunting" and you'll get further; I got numerous Google hits. It must be out there somewhere.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GUEST,BanjoRay
Date: 03 May 05 - 05:32 AM

John, there's often some confusion about Chinquapin Hunting. do you mean the tune that's usually played in A, or do you mean the lovely D tune that we played a few times this weekend at Sewerby - sometimes called Chinquapin? Not many people seem to know about it. I believe it was played by Will Keys among others, using two finger banjo style.
Ray

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: John Hardly
Date: 03 May 05 - 07:16 AM

Here's
another sound file.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GUEST,BanjoRay
Date: 03 May 05 - 07:47 AM

John Hardly's link has the A tune, not the D tune that I believe Oombanjo could be interested in.
Ray

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 03 May 05 - 02:52 PM

Probably not what you are looking for but Lomax recorded a dance tune called "Old Bobby Halsy" down at Rugby, Va. 1938 I think was the year, during which Estil Ball sings "Chinquapin' Huntin', huntin', huntin'" it's a simple but effective repetetive piece available on one of E C Ball's CDs.

Hoot

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GUEST,Mark Cohen, away from home
Date: 03 May 05 - 11:04 PM

I thought I recalled that one being in the Fiddler's Fakebook. I could be wrong, though...I often am.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: Sorcha
Date: 03 May 05 - 11:22 PM

I looked there, didn't find it.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: open mike
Date: 04 May 05 - 02:13 AM

i was gonna suggest the "q" spelling, too.
But i only know this as the name of a type of
Oak Tree...Quercus muhlenbergei

what would you be hunting? not a tree..??

www.dnr.state.oh.us/forestry/ Education/ohiotrees/oakchinquapin.htm

www.encyclopedia.com/html/c1/chinquap.asp

www.noble.org/imagegallery/Woodhtml/ChinquapinOak.html

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 04 May 05 - 05:32 AM

I have very little knowledge on trees but as I understand it the Chinquapin is a miniature version of a sweet chestnut.

Hoot

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GLoux
Date: 04 May 05 - 10:02 AM

Just checked, and it is not in the Fiddler's Fakebook.

-Greg

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: Ferrara
Date: 04 May 05 - 10:16 AM

Found this cached in Google, the original site was gone:

Noun         
1.chinquapin - shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwest United States

Synonyms: Ozark chinkapin, Ozark chinquapin, Castanea ozarkensis

2.chinquapin - shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts

Synonyms: Allegheny chinkapin, eastern chinquapin, dwarf chestnut, Castanea pumila

3.chinquapin - small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut

Synonyms: chincapin, chinkapin

From what I can see, it's like the term "rosewood": it's a word applied to lots of types of oak and their edible acorns.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: Louie Roy
Date: 04 May 05 - 10:29 AM

combanjo,if you PM me your email address I'll send you an MP3 of the tune Chikapin Hunting played in the "A" chord if that will help Louie Roy

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GLoux
Date: 04 May 05 - 11:08 AM

You can find "the dots" for Chinquapin Hunting in Jeff Todd Titon's Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes, University Press of Kentucky. He attributes it to Hiram Stamper who was recorded by Bruce Greene. Hiram's son, Art Stamper, recorded it on County CO-CD-2712, The Lost Fiddler. Titon's book includes a CD with some of the tunes from the book, and Chinquapin Hunting is one of them.

-Greg

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: oombanjo
Date: 04 May 05 - 05:48 PM

Seems that this one has stired some interest ,Ray, it is the one that we played at the Sewerby meeting (Chinquapin Hunting )As it was a D tune. Thanks to all who contributed Inow have to find the dots and the fiddle score.Cheers Oombanjo.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: BanjoRay
Date: 04 May 05 - 07:11 PM

John, you can here Will Keys playing the tune we played at the weekend at at this site. It's NOT the tune most of the contributers to this thread think it is.
If you've got TablEdit, I can email you a tab file.
Ray

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GLoux
Date: 05 May 05 - 08:04 AM

Hmmm...the link that Sorcha gave pointed to the Fiddlers' Companion, which stated that Chinquapin Hunting was in A, by Hiram Stamper, which was recorded by Chad Crumm, of the Chicken Chokers. The fiddle is probably in cross-key A. Art Stamper recorded it in standard tuning in D. When I listen to Will Keys play his version, it sounds like the same tune to me.

-Greg

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: BanjoRay
Date: 05 May 05 - 06:35 PM

The other Chinquapin Hunting is the A tune from Norman Edmonds which you can hear at the Old Time Music page
Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GLoux
Date: 06 May 05 - 10:29 AM

Thanks for the pointer...it's also on the Field Recording Collective Norman Edmonds & The Old Timers Volume 2 (#36). I think that's the version that Chad Crumm plays with the Chicken Chokers on Young Fogies. Completely different tune.

-Greg

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: oombanjo
Date: 07 May 05 - 03:47 AM

Thanks Ray, I have tabedit if you can mail it over I'll make a start befor spring camp. Cheers Oombanjo.