File: robinsonelmer-oh-wmharvey_M.mp3
Speakers:
ER – Elmer Robinson
JC – John Cousins
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
ER: I was 25 or 30 before I had my hands on the fiddle.
JC: You never played at all when you was a kid or anything?
ER: I'm just playin with it. I used to play a few tunes on that thing there, an organ or piano when I was younger.
JC: Even when you were a kid? There must have been people around.
ER: Mouth organ then; I used to play the mouth organ. My background is not bad . My father played the fiddle, and his both fathers played the fiddle and then my uncle Will Harvey, on my mother's side of the family, he was one of the champion fiddlers of the Island. I have his medal upstairs; I was going to dig it out for you.
JC: Yes, yes you were telling me about him.
JC Elmer, where did he live?
ER Enmore
JC They were English, they must have been English people.
ER Yeah, we're English. I don't know if we're proud of it or not, but that's what...
JC: I heard about him, he was a great fiddler.
ER: He was a champion fiddler, one of the best! He could play a fiddle; I just play with it.
KP Was that the contest that Neil Cheverie won?
ER He played with Neil Cheverie in Charlottetown in 1926 and he got second there, and he played in Summerside and got first here for the county. That was Neil Cheverie; you heard of him?
JC: Yeah.
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