Yes, I know I can learn it off the record but does anyone have the abc of this tune similar to the way Mary Custy plays it?
I spent about 20 minutes and the closest I got was a mountain dulcimer simplified version.
Its a very popular tune but Norbeck, JC’s and Ceolas don;t have it.
Thanks in advance. Also, I have noticed that when I try and copy/paste abc’s off of this Forum they don’t paste correctly. Any tips? I can do the IRTRAD ones okay from regular emails.
“I hate fruitless searching for tunes on the web, it takes away from my valuable whistling time.”
I don’t know the way Mary Custy plays it but here’s a version. Looks like it’s for dulcimer. I have played the tune. I learned it from Pete Sutherland. This version looks similar. It’s pdf.
Thanks for helping. I had seen the dulcimer version and was seeking a single line but I guess that’s too choosy! I will extract the more elaborate version and pencil in notes.
I don’t know about the rest of the CD but I really like Mary Custy’s playing. The tune was chosen for the Farewell to Lissycasey Clare compilation.
She has a straightforward style, and it was recorded in a way that makes the fiddle sound darker, almost like a viola. In earlier days, I understand that irish fiddlers sometimes tuned lower than concert though I think she does not.Breathnach alludes to this in his book but most of the more celebrated fiddlers I have heard thus far don’t have that darker sound, though they have a variety of interesting percussive qualities (BSteve or someone called it crunchy, I think)…
I tried to email Custy’s music in Clare (to order her cd and a try at the elusive Casey in the Cowhouse cassette) because I think there’s a family connection but the email was undeliverable.
I guess I didn’t read the original message closely enough to see that the dulcimer version was one you already had. It was the only one I came up with too. I think the tune is probably American. It’s harder to find American tunes on the web that Irish.
Coleman’s appeared in the Fall 2001 issue of Fiddler magazine if you can find that.
Steve
[ This Message was edited by: SteveK on 2002-06-14 11:59 ]
You know, with the name Coleman’s, I assumed it was an Irish tune. But when I did the search, I found all these historical groups doing it and realized that it had nothing to do with Michael Coleman.
So its an Irish fiddler playing an American tune, perhaps. Turnabout.
Well, how stupid can I get? Don’t answer.
I have had a page bookmarked for quite a while called Rich Crew’s Tune Book. It’s all American old time stuff as far as I know. Coleman’s March is there but doubtless it’s not Mary Custy’s version.
It’s a variation of what I heard (or vice versa) but its easier to adapt music than the dulcimer one. The dulcimer one does have (gasp!) harmony built in so two Weekenders can groove.
Thanks again! Maybe I will knuckle down and abc her version to share. Its about time. Basically, she winds around this melody. Its very sweet. i am going to try and zip mp3 to send.
[ This Message was edited by: The Weekenders on 2002-06-14 13:49 ]
On 2002-06-14 13:46, The Weekenders wrote:
Its very sweet. i am going to try and zip mp3 to send.
The tune is on Mary Custy’s site at MP3com, I discovered. She does change it around a bit but it shouldn’t be too hard to find out what she’s doing.
I have an album of hers. She has another American tune on it-Frosty Morning. I’m afraid I don’t think it’s very good. Some other tunes are mistitled. The Ways of the World is some other tune. So is Thunderhead. Grey Larsen wrote the real Thunderhead It and both Ways and the tune Mary calls Thunderhead are on an album of Larsen and Malcolm Dalglish called Thunderhead.