Tuesday, February 24, 2009
This morning I picked up the fiddle and a tune I remembered playing with the Druckenmillers sprang into my head. When I played it with them, it was still too difficult for me to get it right. This morning after a couple times through I was playing it pretty effortlessly. I have NO clue what the name of it is. I played it through maybe six or seven times . . .
And I haven't been able to remember it since.
It's driving me bonkers. I ended up skipping around on the one cd I have of the Druckenmillers, looked at the tune lists on their other cds listed on their website, and listened to those tunes to see if I could find it, poked around on the various tunelists, including the FHO tunelist. Upon hearing Seneca Square Dance . . . aaarrrggghhh. It's something like that, but NOT that. The low part is, anyway. Not the high part. And of course now only Seneca Square Dance comes to mind when I try to pull it out of the gray matter.
Have you ever lost a tune that quickly?
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Playing Since: 2007
Experience Level: Purty Good
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Gender: Female
Age: 72
My Instruments:
My main fiddle is a hard used but wonderfully sounding D. Salzard that's about 130 years old, with a one piece back to die for, and appears handmade. My second fiddle is a very early Suzuki Nippon that looks like it was repaired by a backyard body mechanic with Bondo and epoxy, but manages to sing quite nicely. And I have an early 20th c. German Strad which is plain-plain-plain until you put the bow to her, when she turns into Cinderella at the Ball, with Dark Rich Tone. And I've got a 4th fiddle that's a german trade fiddle, a project I am currently working on, and a 5th that's a german trade, probably a Mittenwald, that needs work that I picked up recently at the flea market. I've also got a couple basket cases that came in recently. One's repairable, an amateur made fiddle from New York, but it needs the whole pegbox/scroll grafted. The other is for parts.
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
First and Foremost, the Gypsy King himself, Stefane Grapelli,
Stuff Smith,
John Hartford,
April Verch,
Regina Carter,
Joe Venuti,
Buddy Thomas,
Chubby Wise,
Owen Chapman,
Dwight Lamb,
Liz Carroll,
Tommy Jarrell,
Lester McCumbers,
Elmer Rich.
Snake Chapman,
Ed Haley,
Jehile Kirkhuff
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Web Developer, Junque Collector / Mad Recycler, and songwriter.
I've been playing fiddle since September 2007.
I run the Oldtime Jam in Easton PA at the 1st Presbyterian Church on Spring Garden Street and Bank Street, on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at 7PM.
