Re: The sheer inexpressible delight of stumbling across a new tun
Friend of mine gave us a book of old fiddle tunes that look to be from about the 1940s or older -- lots of waltzes and translations of opera themes -- that's a lot of fun to drag out when I tire of the same old, same old. Fiddler friend of mine put out what she called her PPE (pandemic player extravaganza) with some tunes she'd always wanted to learn, with standard notation and a CD and we've been playing that for a few months. She's nuts for tunes with notes on the G string and one flat so we've been learning all sorts of out-of-the-usual tunes like the Drunken Sailor Hornpipe and Hamill House (nothing quite like Ed Reavy!), Farewell to Whalley Range and one of the tunes that's a new favorite, Maggie's Pancakes. Every time I get tired of the usual, there's another tune just round the corner that blows my socks off. We've managed to get together for a couple hours of tunes once every two weeks or so (socially distanced and, if there are more than 3 of us, with masks. thank heavens you don't need your mouth to play a mandolin!) since August -- but i miss the pressure to learn a new tune that's making the rounds of the session, frankly. it keeps me on my toes.
--------------------------------
1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
Bookmarks