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ElGringorio |
Posted by ElGringorio
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
My friend Gil Sewell of Pikeville, Tenn., is playing the fiddle and I am playing banjo on this tune, which sounds like the children's tune, "This Old Man." But Gil calls this tune "Mississippi Sawyer in A," which sounds nothing like the familiar standard Mississippi Sawyer, which is a D tune. So I am calling this a mystery tune and hoping some listeners have an answer.
2 comments on “Mississippi Sawyer in A”
LyleK Says:
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 @7:37:42 PM
I tried playing Mississippi Sawyer in A against this. The B parts are identical (or nearly so) and the A parts are similar. So it seems that someone moved Mississippi Sawyer into A and then took some liberties (in D?) with the tune. Any way you slice it, nice tune!
FiddlerFaddler Says:
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 @8:40:57 PM
I agree that it is a divergent (personalized, I reckon) version of Mississippi Sawyer. It's easy on the fiddle to move this from D to A by simply moving the works up one string, thereby transcribing it up a fifth.
I play an arrangement on the fiddle in D by Craig Duncan (courtesy of Mel Bay), and it has each part in two different octaves, with the lower one using lots of double stops and drones. The lower octave D parts translate up a string intact and unadulterated. The higher octave in D is replaced by a yet lower octave in A with a completely different set of fingerings in standard tuning, UNLESS, of course, you cross-tuned the fiddle AEae, in which case the fingerings in both octaves would be the same (hmm... I might try that some time).
Hey, that gives me an idea: a cross-tuned faddle (viola) tuned DAda could play in D the way a cross-tuned fiddle would play in A. Great, I feel a case of fiddle acquisition syndrome coming on strong.
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