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File: morrisseyjohnny-oh-learningtunes_M.mp3

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JM – Johnny Morrissey

JM The way I'd picked up tunes, I'd go to a dance, I'd hear a tune that I liked. And I'd take particular notice to that tune. And then when I'd go home I'd go to bed and the tune would be still floating

File - sonierervan-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3

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ES – Ervan Sonier

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

ES Two pieces of stick, and I used to – I'd take them and go through the motions of tuning the fiddle and all. They used to get a great kick I remember. They'd be back watching me

File: macdonaldpaul-oh-slowgrace_M.mp3

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PM – Paul MacDonald

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

PM: The other type which is considered a grace note in fiddle music but I think in guitar music it's most often referred to as a hammer-on…

KP: Like a slow grace

banksreg06-oh-changesfidmusic_M.mp3

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RB – Reg Banks

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

RB: There's an awful lot of the old-time tunes you don't hear the younger people playing at all. They play more waltzes and more songs and this kind of thing, but the real old tunes you don't

File: mackenziesheila06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3

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SM – Sheila MacKenzie

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

SM: I started step-dancing probably – I know I was 5, and that sort of came – Again the music was always on the radio or a record would be on and I would try to dance. Then I

File: wedgeclifford-oh-songorigins_M.mp3

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CW – Clifford Wedge

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

CW: My Dad and so many other people would go to the woods in the wintertime. And they'd always bring songs home.

KP: From the wood!