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From transplant on 8/31/2011 5:21:47 AM

We had the power out for most of yesterday, so I sat and fiddled with the viola to see what tunes wanted to come out into the air. Here's my short list, all in a usual fiddle key, but an octave down unless noted :

Ashokan Farewell (in its fiddle octave, needs a quick shift or two up the neck, but not much)
Rock the Cradle Joe
Road to Boston
Spootiskerry
Jack Broke da Prison Door
My Cape Breton Home
Lincolnshire Poacher/Widna Wint His Gruel (in G)
Cock of the North/Auntie Mary had a Canary (in D)
Batchelder's
The Ash-Grove (in its fiddle octave in G)
Planxty Fanny Power
Saint Kilda Wedding (in its fiddle octave, in D)

There are some Playford tunes, old ones that sit well on the viola. At the moment all I can think of are:

Child Grove
Nonesuch
Stingo, or Oil of Barley

There are also a whole lot of fiddle tunes I take down a fifth, and use the fiddle's fingering. Just a few of them:

Garfield's Hornpipe (a fourth-finger workout)
Miss Shepherd's (goes all over the board in first position, and changes modes. Fun tune)
Harvest Home / Cincinnati Hornpipe (similar tunes, but different enough to cause mild confusion)

That's all I can think of at the moment, but there is a whole lot more.

2 Comments
	eerohero says: 8/31/2011 6:54:49 AM Why Not !, I dont know a half of them, yet my very curious mind wants to hear all of them, I wish I will do that.
	eerohero says: 8/31/2011 6:58:14 AM Why Not !, I dont know a half of them, yet my very curious mind wants to hear all of them, I wish I will do that.
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