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putasockinit - Posted - 10/23/2024: 17:27:27
Hello all, I have been away for a long time, but picked up my banjo again recently and am trying to learn a few new tunes.
Does anyone know this tune?: youtube.com/watch?v=qCqIyVa7NNg
I found it on YouTube, guessing it's in the CGCEG tuning for the Plucky travel banjo, and trying to translate it into double C for my regular scale banjo. It's very beautiful, with some Celtic undertones. Sounds old.
Thank you for any feedback and help.
Jason
stanleytone - Posted - 10/24/2024: 06:07:16
Sounds a bit like cluck old hen
davidppp - Posted - 10/24/2024: 06:39:29
...or Old Joe Clark in a different mode.
janolov - Posted - 10/24/2024: 07:43:59
Why do you want to play it in double C tuning? The tuning cGCEG is equivalent to the standard G tuning, so if you watch the fingering it is easier to get it in G tuning.
putasockinit - Posted - 10/24/2024: 18:35:46
Thank you all for the replies. I thought it sounded familiar, too, but can't quite place it. I know Old Joe Clark and Cluck Old Hen, but this seems different enough not to be just a different version of either.
Janolov, I will try the fingering in G. But I'm guessing on the tuning in the video, based only on the standard tuning for a GT Plucky.
dpalmer - Posted - 10/26/2024: 18:09:04
This tune is called Fiddle Or A Dram.
Check out the Old-Time Tiki Parlor recording by Bruce Molsky, Can't Stay Here This a-Way.
He plays it in key of A, banjo tuned aEAC#E.
He relates learning it from a recording of the 1938 White Top Folk Festival.
Played by C.P. Wolford of Marion, VA.
Best Regards,
DanP.
davidppp - Posted - 10/27/2024: 07:38:03
...as in (Give the) Fiddler a Dram
