Tunes from the gramophone

File: hughesemmett-oh-learningtunes_M.mp3

Speakers:

EH – Emmett Hughes

EH: See then, the difference [between] then and now is you could jig reels and jigs and whistle them when you were 5 or 6 year old. See, now there's no -- A young person that that goes startin' to play the fiddle they don't know a tune at all, it's all rock 'n roll and all the stuff that's in their head, there's none of this at all. But when I was real young, me father used to send me to the neighbors, they had a grammophone, and I could learn tunes and come home whistle for him to learn them. Even before I went to school. I could pick tunes up just by ear.