groundhogpeggy - Posted - 04/01/2025:  13:06:38

I mean, I meant to put in a fiddle. I made this thing up outta my head back around 10 years ago...I had helped my daughter and her family make an opera by Henry Purcell, Dido and Aneas...anyway, they had so much fun running around the woods with costumes to old music they wanted me to make up some music so they could make up some story to go with it...well the idea never really happened...life went on and everybody got busy, but this was one thing I did with the Purcell thing fresh on my mind, which had take two years to do...lol...someone gave daughter a Yamaha keyboard for that opera, so I could quit trying to just figure it all out on a guitar...so with the same one-finger and 30 plus tracks approach to playing fake instruments on the Yamaha keyboard...this was done back then. Recently I found a thumb drive with a bunch a stuff from a computer long since crashed and trashed...lol...so I guess I attempted to save some of my music back then. Anyway, no time for recording now, but I did find the mp3 and managed to make a movie from some walks in the woods with hubby and doggies.

See whatcha think...it's funky and weird...lol... Recorder in the Merry Wood youtu.be/TAG6jSDTROk?si=DiN4xykGql9iulrV

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 04/01/2025:  14:57:10

Thanks. That was the sort of thing they wanted it for...maybe someday they'll get back to that project...lol.

Quincy - Posted - 04/01/2025:  16:48:45

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Originally posted by Scotty road

Like something from playfords, wouldnt sound out of place as a theme tune for some kind of medieval drama or Robin Hood type thing. Great sound and really well put together.

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Exactly!!!! Haha see the comment I just posted on YT for this piece ;-) 

(I had not read your Robin Hood comment when I posted that)

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 04/01/2025:  18:10:08

Thanks, Anja!

NCnotes - Posted - 04/01/2025:  18:47:23

That is cool in a renaissance/medeival/English folk way!

I can say “cantaloupe cantaloupe’ to the rhythm, so you may have come up with a jig or slip jig, hmm..:-)

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 04/02/2025:  04:36:58

Oh, is that the jig test? Lol...glad to know got the cantaloupes in! I really didn't know what I was doing...lol. We had just finished the opera daughter wanted me to help with and I just had that kinda sounding stuff going in my brain...you know...monkey see/monkey do...lol.



Thanks for applying the cantaloupes, NC! There's a real learning experience for me...I can remember that...lol.  It's funny, when one of daughter's friends helped and pretended to be singing while they were filming the opera, daughter told her since she didn't know the words, just say "watermelon, watermelon," over and over again.  The melons have ontributed so much to the music, hey?



Have a great day and stay out of the terrible weather.  Maybe we should all have a cantaloupe!

Edited by - groundhogpeggy on 04/02/2025 04:39:34

NCnotes - Posted - 04/02/2025:  07:50:21

ha ha yes, melons are always a great help!

 in that online fiddle workshop my teacher said that jigs and slipjigs have the rhythm of “Cantaloupe Cantaloupe”! There was a different word for slides, but I forgot it…:-D

Edited by - NCnotes on 04/02/2025 07:51:35

DougD - Posted - 04/02/2025:  11:46:02

Very nice, Peggy. I like both the music and the visuals. You must have figured out a way to transfer the contents of your flash drive.
"Cantaloupe, cantaloupe" reminds me of one of the two important things I've learned from you over the years (I think there are really four, but I forgot two) - that there's a cataloupe with green flesh called the Jenny Lind.
For a slip jig you'd need one more measure, like - "Cantaloupe, cantaloupe, muskmelon." Easter's coming, so "Hippity, hoppity" would work too.

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 04/02/2025:  13:58:43

Thanks, Doug. And it's great to know that Jenny Lind cantaloupes will always be your slip jig go-toos...or at least something with a sandwich for lunch.

loy - Posted - 04/03/2025:  04:33:41

Well done my friend, like all your music projects I enjoyed it!

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 04/03/2025:  04:59:37

Thanks, Loy. Keep that coffee pot going! Have a great day.

ShawnCraver - Posted - 04/03/2025:  15:34:34

I was just going through some notation of English tunes, then came here and listened to this. Good melodies, the arrangement... Well done!