Looking for music for "Tombigbee"

Whistle
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I’m trying to find music for a fiddle tune (a waltz) called “Tombigbee.” I have a recording of it, but the only time I have to listen to CDs these days is in the car while shuttling my nine-year-old around, which is not terribly conducive to memorizing music. This would sound pretty on the whistle…anybody know where I can find the music for it?

Redwolf

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Finally someone is posting one I know! Tombigbee waltz can be found in either The Waltz Book, or The Waltz Book II (yep, that’s their real names!), which is available at many folky music stores, including Song of the Sea and Folkcraft Instruments in Winsted, CT.

It is under copyright, if I recall. Nice piece!

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Clare Renaud is the fiddle playing Sessiun leader at the Kildare House in Windsor, and in the few times I’ve been there, I believe he’s led this tune each night. I also have the Walyz Book referred to in the prior post, and got it from there as well as listening to it. If you need to, email me privately, and I’ll beglad to help you get notation.

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On 2002-07-23 21:00, tyghress wrote:
It is under copyright, if I recall. Nice piece!

I have the Tombigbee waltz by Boys of the Lough. The notes say they got it from James Bryan who says he got it from Tom Jackson. On the label of Bryan’s LP it says “trad”.
If it’s under copyright, I wonder who has the copyright. There’s another waltz called The Tom Big Bee River. It has words and comes from a book called Heart Songs (1909)

Steve

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James Bryan and Tom Jackson are both from North Alabama as is the Tombigbee River. Several of my friends around here play the waltz. I play it on the hammered dulcimer. I learned it twenty years ago from Cathy Barton, Colombia MO, a fine hammered dulcimer and clawhammer banjo player. I am not aware that it is under copyright.

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On 2002-07-23 21:00, tyghress wrote:
Finally someone is posting one I know! Tombigbee waltz can be found in either The Waltz Book, or The Waltz Book II (yep, that’s their real names!), which is available at many folky music stores, including Song of the Sea and Folkcraft Instruments in Winsted, CT.

It is under copyright, if I recall. Nice piece!

yea, you can probably order the Waltz Book (the first one) from http://www.cdss.com