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What makes a good fiddler?

Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Stephen Toole, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract:
  • Abstract:Music in you; good timing; know a good selection of tunes: jigs, reels, and waltzes (100 jigs, 100 reels), fairly lively: too slow is no good, and you have to be fairly generous (with your time) too.
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    School picnics in southwestern Queens County

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Stephen Toole, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Lawn Parties: school benefits in southwest Queens Co.
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
    oral history

    Dances around Green Road

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Stephen Toole, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:2 or 3 house parties a week in different areas, dances in the lumber warehouse in Bonshaw on the river, school house dances
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    Demo: fiddlers' warm-up; common double stops

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Stephen Toole, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Taking sound out of the fiddle: going over the main fingering shapes in a key before starting to play in that key
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories

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