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File: cousinsjohn-oh-thegift_M.mp3
Speakers:
JC – John Cousins
JC: To become a fiddler, to become a good fiddler the term everyone used ad nauseum was "It was a gift." It was a gift; you were given this gift. And people said it sincerely. Only a few people were given this gift, but
File: macdougalljim06-oh-weddings_M.mp3
Speakers:
JM – Jim MacDougall
JM: There was always what they'd called a wedding shower. I can remember my oldest sister when she got married, we had borrowed this dancing booth they had for the parish for their picnics and we had it set up in our
File: albertjoe06-oh-musichome_lent_frolics_M.wav
Speakers
KP: curator Ken Perlman
JA: Joe Albert
IA: Ivan Albert
IA: Me and Joe's brothers but we got 12 brothers between us, between the two of us 10 others and we got 12 sisters. And we got 18 livin', and pretty much all
File: bernardalvin-oh-jimmybearisto.mp3
Speakers:
AB – Alvin Bernard
ES – Edwin Simmons
KP – curator Ken Perlman
AB:He used to cut hair there in Kensington and he played the fiddle. And every time you'd go in there, ther'd be a fiddler in there playin eh;
File: macinnisbillysenior06-oh-donmesser_M.mp3
Speakers:
BM – Billy MacInnis, Sr
KP – Curator Ken PerlmanDid you ever meet Don Messer?
KP: Did you ever meet Don Messer?
BM: Yes I met Don Messer when he lived on Belmont St. in Charlottetown. I'd be about 7 or
File: macinnislargus-oh-quadrillecalls_M.mp3
Speakers:
LM – Largus MacInnis
KP – Ken Perlman
LM Quadrilles, you started in by salutin' your partner and then you go eight hands 'round. And then the two head couples would go right and left. And the ladies would change [chain]
File: hughesemmett-oh-doublestops_M.mp3
Speakers
EH – Emmett Hughes
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP I think I heard you use a lot of double strings in your playing, is that true? You try to hit two strings?
EH Yes, and a lot of times you
File: corbetttrudy06-oh-dancinginschools_M.mp3
Speakers:
TC – Trudy Corbett
FC – Fulton Corbett (husband of Trudy Corbett)
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
MS – Mary Pineau Smith
FC: But she started in school; I went to school with her. She started at school with a comb
File: mcpheehugh06-oh-contests_M.mp3
Speakers:
HM – Hughie McPhee
HM: The last one I was at – The three judges talkin', and one says to the other "The first fellow that plays a tune on the flats gets first prize." But nobody played anything on the flats (laughs). I knew this, I played
File: stewartarchie-oh-playingforset_M.mp3
Speakers:
AS – Archie Stewart
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
AS There was a certain beat of music for each section [figure] of that set. Like when you started first, you wanted a fairly slow beat, because it was a slow back and forth.
File: chaissontimothy06-oh-familyinfluences_M.mp3
Speakers:
TC – Timothy Chaisson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
TC: I learned a lot from Peter, he actually mentored me quite a bit: using the fourth fingers for example. He doesn't usually play open strings for fiddle I guess; his
File: jonesandrew-oh-fatherpermission_M.mp3
Speakers:
AJ – Andrew Jones
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP Did you learn tunes from your father at all?
AJ No, I don't think so. I don't think I learned anything from him at all. He wouldn't leave me take the fiddle. I'd sneak
File: macdonaldjoe-oh-gettingstarted_learningtunes_M.mp3
Speakers:
JM – Joe MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
JM: Around here, there was good old fiddlers around here. There was Gregory MacEachern, a neighbor of ours. He's dead now long of it. He was a great old fiddler and
File: hornbyjim-oh-fiddlersociety_M.mp3
Speakers:
JH – Jim Hornby
JH Yeah. I was around just when they started. At that time they sort of gathered a lot of people who were players and had been for years, and hadn't in some cases been very active, and sort of got them
File: biggarjackie06-oh-contests_M.mp3
Speakers:
JB – Jackie Biggar
KP – curator Ken perlman
JB: Cape Breton's got Buddy MacMaster, we had Elmer Robinson. They tell me Elmer Robinson and Bill Harvey - Bill Harvey played the fiddle too up in this area. They went to