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Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting

02 May 05 - 04:33 PM (#1476729)
Subject: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: oombanjo

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


02 May 05 - 04:44 PM (#1476736)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: Sorcha

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


02 May 05 - 04:51 PM (#1476740)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: Sorcha

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


02 May 05 - 04:59 PM (#1476751)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: oombanjo

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


02 May 05 - 05:06 PM (#1476758)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: Sorcha

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


03 May 05 - 01:12 AM (#1476801)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: Desert Dancer

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


03 May 05 - 05:32 AM (#1476862)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GUEST,BanjoRay

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


03 May 05 - 07:16 AM (#1476881)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: John Hardly

Here's
another sound file.


03 May 05 - 07:47 AM (#1476887)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GUEST,BanjoRay

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


03 May 05 - 02:52 PM (#1477229)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GUEST,Hootenanny

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


03 May 05 - 11:04 PM (#1477563)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GUEST,Mark Cohen, away from home

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

Aloha,
Mark


03 May 05 - 11:22 PM (#1477571)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: Sorcha

I looked there, didn't find it.


04 May 05 - 02:13 AM (#1477610)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: open mike

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


04 May 05 - 05:32 AM (#1477670)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GUEST,Hootenanny

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

Hoot


04 May 05 - 10:02 AM (#1477824)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GLoux

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

-Greg


04 May 05 - 10:16 AM (#1477838)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: Ferrara

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.


04 May 05 - 10:29 AM (#1477850)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: Louie Roy

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


04 May 05 - 11:08 AM (#1477892)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GLoux

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


04 May 05 - 05:48 PM (#1478219)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: oombanjo

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.


04 May 05 - 07:11 PM (#1478294)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: BanjoRay

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


05 May 05 - 08:04 AM (#1478660)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GLoux

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


05 May 05 - 06:35 PM (#1478995)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: BanjoRay

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


06 May 05 - 10:29 AM (#1479378)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: GLoux

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


07 May 05 - 03:47 AM (#1479884)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Chinkapin Hunting
From: oombanjo

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