File: arsenaultedwardp-oh-gettingstarted_M.wav
Speakers:
EPA: Edward P Arsenault
MA: Marie Arsenault
KP: Curator Ken Perlman
406 KP: You said that you didn't take up the fiddle right away...
EPA: I was 32 years old, and that's a bad mistake. She bought me the first fiddle, eh. What a mistake she made then! Oh, my God. It must have been 5 years before I learned to play a few tunes right.
MA: The only thing wrong was that he didn't know his tunes.
EPA: I used to start to play a tune, I'd usually play in my bedroom all by myself. And all of a sudden, I'd hear a knock at the door: "That's not the way that tune goes!" and then she'd start to tune it to me.
MA: I did that for 10 years, sittin' on the foot of the bed.
EPA: I didn't think it was that long.
KP: So, she taught you your tunes.
EPA: Yeah, really. Sometimes I'd hear a tune, eh, and she was very sharp. She's got a sharp ear. I'd hear a tune and then I tried it, and it wasn't right at all. It was a few notes, you know. And she'd hear that, so she'd come over and correct it.
MA: I can't stand that. It's gotta be played right or not at all!!
EPA: She had a sharp ear on that stuff.
