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  2. Old time fiddle - Wikipedia

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    Bill Hensley, Mountain Fiddler, Asheville, North Carolina. Old time (also spelled old-time or oldtime) fiddle is the style of American fiddling found in old-time music.Old time fiddle tunes are derived from European folk dance forms such as the jig, reel, breakdown, schottische, waltz, two-step, and polka.

  3. The Traditional Tune Archive - Wikipedia

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    The Traditional Tune Archive (TTA) is the searchable digital library of traditional music from Ireland, Great Britain and North America organized alphabetically, by tune title, with alternate or additional titles and variants cross-referenced, music in standard and ABC notation, annotated information on history and context, along with references and internet links for further reference.

  4. Bonaparte's Retreat - Wikipedia

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    Bonaparte's Retreat" (sometimes called "Boneyparte's Retreat" or "Boney's Retreat") is the name of several fiddle tunes, most of them found in the old-time tradition (the Traditional Tune Archive at tunearch.org lists 8 separate tunes under the name "Bonaparte's Retreat"). [2]

  5. Yew Piney Mountain - Wikipedia

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    The tune is such a solid exemplar of Americana that it is the title of a radio show, Yew Piney Mountain, which airs on Wednesdays from 6-7 pm CST on KRUI, 89.7 FM in Iowa City, Iowa. [7] It is also the name of a Smithsonian Folkways compilation.

  6. Flowers of Edinburgh - Wikipedia

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    "Flowers of Edinburgh" is a traditional fiddle tune, of eighteenth century Scottish lineage. It is also prominent in American fiddle, Canadian fiddle and wherever old time fiddle is cultivated. The tune is also the basis for a Morris Dance, in the Bledington style.

  7. American fiddle - Wikipedia

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    The canonical American fiddle tune, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" was written by Charlie Daniels as an interpretation the "Lonesome Fiddle Blues" by Vassar Clements and has been covered innumerable times. Although classified as country rock, the tune uses licks based on old-time fiddle playing and rock guitar riffs. Unlike most old-time ...

  8. Graham Townsend - Wikipedia

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    He grew up in Buckingham, Quebec, where his mother grew up, and absorbed the Irish, French and Scottish fiddle music of the Ottawa Valley that would later mold him into a prolific composer of over 400 tunes and a musician with a repertoire of nearly 4,000 fiddle tunes. Townsend began playing fiddle as a child and was winning competitions as ...

  9. Fiddlin' Doc Roberts - Wikipedia

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    Fiddlin' Doc Roberts: Classic Fiddle Tunes, Recorded During The Golden Age - Davis Unlimited DU-33015 (ca. 1974) Fiddling Doc Roberts: Old Time Tunes - County 412 (1983) Fiddlin' Doc Roberts: Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order, Volume 1: 1925–1928 - Document DOCD-8042 (1998)