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Playing Since: 1973
Experience Level: Purty Good
fiddlepogo has made 5005 additions to Fiddle Hangout 
Gender: Male
Age: 57
My Instruments:
Two Knilling 4KF models:
One, labeled "Bucharest" dated 2006 and bought new. It's sounding sweet.
Another, bought on eBay is possibly from about 2000, does not say "Bucharest"
and smells funny when the weather gets warm-
could it be of Chinese origin?
I go back and forth which I like better- right now the smelly one is my cross-tuned fiddle...
which is what I bought it for actually! The Romanian one is strung with Thomastik Precision Lights (steel), the other with Prims, and I use Kaplan Premium rosin.
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Formative influences: William Stepp, Luther Strong, Tommy Jarrell, Bunt Stephens, Franklin George, Earl Collins, Tom Sauber,
John W. Summers, Jean Carignan,
Hubbard & Molk. Many of the key ones were downbow fiddlers.
Recently I like Erynn Marshall, Matt Brown, Chirps Smith, and Michael Garvin...
I like the Bruces- Greene and Molsky too, also Jehile Kirkhuff's Pennsylvania Old Time fiddling.
Even more recently (YouTube is expanding my fiddling mind!)
I like the Quebe Sisters Band, Craig Duncan, Graham Townshend, Gilles Apap, and the Voetberg Family Band.
Profile Info:
Visible to: Public
Created 6/27/2007
Last Visit 2/8/2010
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Size: 4,439kb, uploaded 12/5/2008 8:46:06 PM
Genre: Other
One of the two most common Swedish fiddle tunes,
used for the Allspel for massed fiddling.
That's not the Swedish title of course!
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Size: 4,783kb, uploaded 1/16/2009 11:27:44 PM
Genre: Jazz/Blues
I learned how to play lead guitar by just noodling and trying to make it sound musical.
This is the equivalent on fiddle. Shaky in spots!
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Average Rating: (rated by 13 members, play count: 1150)
Size: 1,957kb, uploaded 7/27/2007 3:00:03 AM
Genre: Old-Time
I've always done this in standard tuning.
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Size: 1,889kb, uploaded 7/27/2007 3:15:00 AM
Genre: Old-Time
Standard tuning,
although I've played it in both AEAE and ADAE
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Size: 1,800kb, uploaded 7/30/2007 1:31:27 AM
Genre: Old-Time
Standard Tuning, Key of G
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Size: 1,819kb, uploaded 2/24/2008 4:19:37 AM
Genre: Old-Time
Probably my favorite hornpipe
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Size: 3,209kb, uploaded 12/8/2008 10:17:59 PM
Genre: Other
A very old English Christmas carol,
and one of my favorite melodies.
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Average Rating: (rated by 4 members, play count: 503)
Size: 1,949kb, uploaded 2/24/2008 11:31:41 AM
Genre: Old-Time
This is one of the few tunes I've learned fresh
in the last couple of years, and the first one to get up to speed. Annoyingly long title!
This one is unusual in that the main bowing is neither Sawshuffle nor Syncoshuffle! See the bowing threads for suspects! ;^)
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Size: 2,307kb, uploaded 7/27/2007 3:55:49 AM
Genre: Old-Time
Yet another recording of Green Willis. ;^)
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Size: 4,672kb, uploaded 12/5/2008 7:16:43 PM
Genre: Old-Time
Quebecified Irish tune that got popular in Southern California in the early '70s- now oldtimeyfied!
Heil PR-35 on the top (right channel) Samson R11 on the back (left channel). A little bit of Mazzoni's dynamic compression (stock Audacity settings) and a little AMBIENCE reverb for flavor.
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Size: 5,349kb, uploaded 12/15/2008 11:38:40 PM
Genre: Old-Time
Fiddle song from learned Grayson and Whitter recording.
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Size: 5,337kb, uploaded 6/5/2008 2:35:51 AM
Genre: Old-Time
John Henry, Round Peak style.
AEAE. Learned from the playing of Fred Cockerham, IIRC.
There are some bowings in this that I don't use for any other tune. 2/3 of the way through, a train went by, and I almost stopped playing, but then I realized it FIT!
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Average Rating: (rated by 7 members, play count: 762)
Size: 1,568kb, uploaded 2/24/2008 4:49:55 AM
Genre: Old-Time
Kickin up the tempo a bit from my normal easygoing pace
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Average Rating: (rated by 3 members, play count: 278)
Size: 4,749kb, uploaded 12/6/2008 7:49:52 PM
Genre: Old-Time
Not sure where I first learned this- Krassen's Appalachian Fiddle book and Hollow Rock LP are possibilities.
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Size: 2,839kb, uploaded 6/6/2008 12:49:34 AM
Genre: Old-Time
I found this on an old cassette tape-
I recorded it shortly after I learned it at a festival in 1976 so I would remember it- the low part is shaky, and it falls apart at least once.
This is back when I was mostly a Nashville Shuffle fiddler- some of you will probably like this better than my current playing! ;^)
Since it was recorded on my Norelco Phillips cassette recorder, the quality is pretty low, natch!
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Average Rating: (rated by 8 members, play count: 362)
Size: 1,796kb, uploaded 2/24/2008 4:06:29 AM
Genre: Old-Time
A somewhat obscure D tune I've known and loved for decades.
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Size: 4,569kb, uploaded 3/12/2008 3:19:05 AM
Genre: Old-Time
Same recording of Magpie at 320 kps instead
of 128
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Average Rating: (rated by 6 members, play count: 386)
Size: 5,078kb, uploaded 5/7/2008 12:55:55 AM
Genre: Old-Time
Basically the Cole's 1001 version of Miss McLeod's,
but dressed up in Old Time ruffles and shuffles! ;^)
Key of G, standard tuning.
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Average Rating: (rated by 3 members, play count: 336)
Size: 3,434kb, uploaded 11/7/2008 10:32:09 PM
Genre: Old-Time
Old Dan Tucker is the first thing I ever learned on the fiddle-
played it with double stops from the start.
Easy. Recently I heard it was the first tune John Summers played on fiddle, too. I have a Samson R11 dynamic underneath and to the left catching the bottom plate,
and the Heil PR35 thru a Behringer Tube Mic 100 preamp catching the sound coming from the top.
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Average Rating: (rated by 6 members, play count: 623)
Size: 2,078kb, uploaded 12/13/2007 3:29:32 AM
Genre: Old-Time
Over the Waterfall- twin fiddles by overdubbing featuring
both Knilling 4KFs.
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Average Rating: (rated by 4 members, play count: 264)
Size: 5,028kb, uploaded 12/11/2008 1:29:34 AM
Genre: Old-Time
Sometimes known by another title...
them yearlings have it ROUGH!
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Size: 4,619kb, uploaded 4/16/2008 6:23:07 AM
Genre: Old-Time
Recorded with a Naiant X-Q mic above and to the front about an arm's length, and with a Studio Projects B1 below and to the left. My Knilling Bucharest has the Thomastik Precision Lights on it,
and the mp3 was exported at the highest bitrate I could.
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Average Rating: (rated by 7 members, play count: 372)
Size: 3,615kb, uploaded 12/11/2008 4:16:29 PM
Genre: Old-Time
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Size: 5,345kb, uploaded 6/6/2008 2:01:31 PM
Genre: Celtic/Irish
Three jigs I often play in a medley at gigs.
Gig jigs? ;^D
2006 Knilling 4KF, GDAE
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Average Rating: (rated by 5 members, play count: 605)
Size: 1,456kb, uploaded 2/24/2008 3:53:31 AM
Genre: Old-Time
G, probably owes a lot to the Bunt Stephens version
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Average Rating: (rated by 6 members, play count: 381)
Size: 3,221kb, uploaded 8/18/2008 5:44:33 PM
Genre: Old-Time
Sailor's Hornpipe... a little shaky!
Mostly sawstroke with 3 note upwards slurs toward the
ends of the phrases.
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Average Rating: (rated by 6 members, play count: 450)
Size: 2,872kb, uploaded 2/24/2008 5:26:40 AM
Genre: Old-Time
Two of my favorite G tunes in a medley
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Size: 4,471kb, uploaded 12/7/2008 11:18:00 PM
Genre: Old-Time
Two part version of Shady Grove I learned back in the '70s,
I think from Hubbard & Molk
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Size: 241kb, uploaded 4/30/2008 1:24:38 PM
Genre: Scales/Exercises
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Size: 275kb, uploaded 4/30/2008 1:27:39 PM
Genre: Scales/Exercises
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Size: 338kb, uploaded 4/30/2008 1:32:05 PM
Genre: Scales/Exercises
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Size: 314kb, uploaded 4/30/2008 1:40:21 PM
Genre: Scales/Exercises
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Size: 296kb, uploaded 4/30/2008 1:45:37 PM
Genre: Scales/Exercises
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Size: 8,244kb, uploaded 8/29/2008 1:17:47 PM
Genre: Old-Time
Rockingham Cindy, Rochester Schottische, and Susannah Gal.
My personal take on Tommy Jarrell's style and 3 of his tunes-
NOT a transcription, but based on a lot of listening and
getting to watch him in person a lot in 1976.
I found if I imitated the motions, I got the sound pretty close!
One thing I have to do to get the feel is lead the beat sometimes... I'm not REAL comfortable with it, since the only time I do it is when I'm doing Tommy Jarrell tunes.
Anyway, I'm teetering on the edge, and about 3:03, I fall off! ;^D.
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Average Rating: (rated by 6 members, play count: 464)
Size: 5,051kb, uploaded 11/7/2008 10:37:38 PM
Genre: Old-Time
As common as dirt, or turkey on the table at Thanksgiving,
but I love it. Great tune for Sawshuffle and Syncoshuffle.
Samson R11 catching the bottom plate sounds, the Heil PR35 catching the top plate, but no preamp. Sounds good, but a little thinner than with the Behringer tube mic preamp used on Old Dan Tucker.
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Average Rating: (rated by 3 members, play count: 257)
Size: 6,314kb, uploaded 1/16/2009 10:54:44 PM
Genre: Old-Time
I think I had this in my head before I ever picked up a fiddle- I think I'd heard it on some cowboy movie when I was a kid. Nobody seems to play it anymore, but to me, it's everything an Old Time waltz should be.
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