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Experience Level: Purty Good
tfaux has made 86 recent additions to Banjo Hangout 
Occupation: University prof
Age: 52
My Instruments:
'26 Vega Tubaphone
'29 Vega Regent
'96 SS Stewart American Princess
2009 gourd fretless by Stephen Hill, of Chicago.
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
All the people I play with.
Profile Info:
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Created 3/12/2008
Last Visit 9/2/2010
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Size: 1,303kb, uploaded 11/1/2009 5:14:36 PM
Genre: Traditional
Tune-o-the-week, 11/6/09, played on an S.S. Stewart American Princess with Nyl-guts.
It was once thought that sudden flights of creative fancy were caused by tiny worms in the brain, hence the many older English dance tunes labeled as "maggots."
In this sense, banjo players tend to be a maggoty bunch.
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Size: 2,933kb, uploaded 1/3/2009 8:00:39 AM
Genre: Traditional
Think I first heard a version of this by the Chieftains, and learned it from Tom Turino. That's Robin K the Possum Queen on fiddle, young Willie Hope on guitar, and Grandpa Randall McCabe, mando.
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Size: 1,403kb, uploaded 4/27/2009 12:40:45 PM
Genre: Traditional
Tune-of the Week, 5/1/09
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Size: 1,999kb, uploaded 1/15/2009 4:31:40 AM
Genre: Traditional
An air tordu (crooked tune) from Quebec. The title translates as "hide your buttocks." There's a little song that goes with the tune. One verse is about a young man following a young lady up a ladder into an apple tree...
(Robin Kearton plays viola on this recording.)
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Size: 2,491kb, uploaded 1/3/2009 8:11:36 AM
Genre: Traditional
First heard this great old-timey tune played by fiddler Greg Boardman up in the Kennebec Valley area in central Maine back in the mid-70s.
It's been stuck in my head since then.
Oberon, Possum King.
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Size: 3,773kb, uploaded 1/3/2009 7:14:14 AM
Genre: Other
With the band. Recorded by Oberon, the Possum King, 12/08
I learned this one from my friend, the late Al Bardezbanian, an extraordinary oud player from West Bath, Maine.
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Size: 1,556kb, uploaded 11/26/2008 7:39:12 AM
Genre: Old Time
An Irish session chune. For full description see tune of the week, November 30, 2008
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Size: 2,196kb, uploaded 3/7/2009 10:23:05 AM
Genre: Traditional
A tune from Brittany by guitarist Giles Le Bigott. I picked it up from a recording by the great Irish piper Paddy Keenan.
The 3-beat transition between repeats is intentional.
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Size: 2,785kb, uploaded 2/1/2010 3:31:56 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
Don't know the name of this. I think I learned it from fiddler Michael Gallant, in Maine.
Here we give it a kind of canonic treatment...
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Play count: 151
Size: 1,164kb, uploaded 11/1/2009 5:16:26 PM
Genre: Traditional
Tune-o-the-week, November 6, 2009.
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Size: 1,396kb, uploaded 11/6/2009 5:38:35 AM
Genre: Traditional
Robin on fiddle, Celia on accordion.
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Size: 74kb, uploaded 11/3/2009 8:05:07 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
posted in thread: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/161650
(tab here: http://www.banjohangout.org/myhangout/photos2.asp?id=27000&photoID=65083&albumid=3725
Cross-referencing in posts is slightly mind-bending. I kind of expect to hear feedback squeal...
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Size: 2,439kb, uploaded 4/14/2010 10:12:44 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
I learned this from Tom Turino, a fine banjo player in Illinois.
It's a great tune for beginners: Easy right hand, a few techniques in easy spots, and it sounds great played slow.
The tab is posted in "photos."
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