Posted by JanetB
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Size: 945kb, uploaded 3/17/2014 6:10:18 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For Tune of the Week, 3/14/14, from the fiddling of Lotus Dickey, played on a Gold Tone cello banjo tuned dADF#A. The tune was apparently first played on a fife and later by fiddlers. The history of an Oyster River Massacre in present-day Durham, New Hampshire goes back to the 1690's.
7 comments on “Oyster River Hornpipe (CB)--TOTW”
VancePants Says:
Monday, March 17, 2014 @2:36:51 PM
Lovely tune... lovely tone... nicely rendered Janet!
guitarman8491 Says:
Monday, March 17, 2014 @5:01:35 PM
Janet..really a wonderful tune and you have a very nice playing style..clean with a very nice touch!
banjoike Says:
Monday, March 17, 2014 @6:52:45 PM
Very nice Janet...i like the sound of your banjo...and your hand striking the head..once in a while. Very beautiful!!
JanetB Says:
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 @6:15:16 AM
Thanks, glad you like that cello banjo. It's 14" drum head is very close to the strings and gives it lots of sustain. I've been enjoying it much since changing to all-nylon strings. You can hear the fife play it on the TOTW thread--then the tune sounds like a march. This one is a bonafide fiddle arrangement.
rgoad Says:
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 @11:27:53 AM
I like that instrument. Sounds like a toad singing.
rickhayes Says:
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 @12:14:40 PM
Fine tone and playing as usual Janet.
JanetB Says:
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 @9:50:48 PM
Thanks, Rick and Rick. You're both always so supportive and Collin and I will accept the toad referral as a compliment! (Banjos have names and personalities, you know.)
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