Washington's March

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Size: 1,412kb, uploaded 8/17/2013 5:16:25 PM
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For the Tune of the Week, 8/16/13, from the fiddling of Edden Hammonds.

Waterbound

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Two versions here for this old-time Tune of the Week, 1/8/16. The first comes from Dirk Powell. The next is a mix of every one I've ever heard.

Waters Street Waltz

Posted by JanetB, written by David Grier & Mike Compton

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Two of my favorite musicians wrote this.

Waves on the Ocean

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Size: 1,306kb, uploaded 4/21/2015 7:58:19 PM
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As played by Emmett Lundy, I like the image of waves given by the song. It begins with something low and jumps to something syncopated up high -- like a big wave getting ready to break.

Wayfaring Stranger

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Size: 1,144kb, uploaded 4/17/2022 4:55:37 PM
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Played and recorded to add to a thread for sharing hymns, appropriate on Easter Sunday, '22;. I used 3-finger picking without picks.

Waynesboro

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This arrangement is in old G tuning, played down a step (fCFCD) from the playing of Edden Hammonds and Alan Jabbour. I'm working on tunes I can transpose to this tuning as a *homework assignment* from Adam Hurt.

Waynesboro

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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Waynesboro cello banjo/mando duet

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First day home for my new Gold Tone CB5 and a first-time duet to see how the combination of cello banjo and mandolin sounds.

Ways of the World

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Learned from William Stepp's Library of Congress recording by the Lomax's. Inspired by BHO member Carl Baron's version.

Ways of the World (Luther Strong)

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For the TOTW, 2/27/15. Having read Stephen Wade's book The Beautiful Music Around Us, I got to read a chapter about Luther Strong. He was crass when drunk, but oh, what a fiddler! His family adored him when he was sober, but left him when he drank. Then they returned, time after time. When I play the tune I think of the part of him that was kind when life is good and everyone's happy.

We're Gonna Hunt the Buffalo

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For the old-time Tune of the Week, 7/4/14 from the fiddling of Jimmy Driftwood (1907 - 1998) of Timbo, AR. He said that two of his uncles, half-brothers to his father, were half-Cherokee and lived with them for years. I'm playing in a very unusual tuning of eBGBD

Wedding Dress (TOTW)

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Here's a Tune of the Week I used to play a long time ago, Wedding Dress. It's a sweet song, with a touch of a modal sound.

Wednesday Night Waltz (TOTW)

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Our diligent TOTW presenter, Carl Baron, gave us four versions of Wednesday Night Waltz to hear. I chose the ones from the Kessinger Brothers, because Clark Kessinger was such an influential fiddler in his day, and from Melvin Wine, who Carl actually got to play in West Virginia with back in the day.

Wes Muir's Tune (TOTW)

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For the old-time Tune of the Week, 12/15/17, Wes Muir learned this during the Civil War era. Missouri fiddler Nile Wilson (1912 - 2008) passed the tune on. He learned at a young age to play fiddle from his grandfathers and father. He plays at a fast dance tempo and I can imagine this tune as a polka, though it's said Mr. Wilson's favorite tunes were for square dances.

West Fork Girls--cello banjo

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For the Tune of the Week, 4/19/13. Like many, I learned it from Miles Krassen's Clawhammer Book of the 70's. Hope he knows we're still playing it.

West Virginia Hornpipe

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In topics:
West Virginia Hornpipe, TOTW 9/4/2026

Here's a "barn burner" as played by WV fiddler Clark Kessinger, but more like a rocking chair when I play it. It sure has a range, so I turned to the cello banjo and tuned it just three steps lower than standard to play an A tune out of an equivalent to double C tuning.

Western Country (TOTW)

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Calvin Cole, recorded by the Library of Congress in the 1930's, played banjo for Peter Hoover in the 1960's and a CD was released with 37 cuts. It was said that in his 80's, Calvin was still dancing at the local Fancy Gap dances like he was a teenager. And his banjo speed on Western Country was twice mine!

Westphalia Waltz

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It seemed like this well-known fiddle tune should be in my repertoire. I've finally learned Westphalia Waltz when I came across it in a Ken Perlman clawhammer book.

What Wondrous Love Is This

Posted by JanetB, written by William Walker & Alexander Means

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This old hymn of 1835 was in a shape note hymnal.

When I Go (TOTW)

Posted by JanetB, written by Dave Carter

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This Tune of the Week for 12/18/15 is a modern song written by banjo player Dave Carter with a striking Native American influence on the lyrics. When he accompanied this with banjo, it played a harmony to the sung melody, which makes a lovely sound that grew on me the more I listened. However, I only used Dave's singing as a guide to this arrangement, except for the very end, which was an instrumental tag. Ironically, Dave died young in 2002, perhaps in synchrony with his own lyrics about "When I Go." "Bear me my brother under your wings, I will strike fell like lightning when I go...Stand in the mist where my fire used to burn, I will camp on the night breeze when I go...Do not worry for my comfort, do not sorrow for me so, All your diamond tears will rise up and adorn the sky beside me when I go."