Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on January 16th 2010 by geoffwright.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Barham Down
M: 3/2
L: 1/8
R: three-two
K: Dmaj
|:A2GF E2D2A2d2|A2GF G2A2E4|A2GF E2D2A2c2|1d2ef gfec d4:|2d2ef gfec d2 fg|]
|:a2f2d2a2f2d2|g2B2e2B2c4|d2 cB AGFE FGAF|1B2cd cdec d2 fg:|2B2cd cdec d4|]
Barham Down
Allegedly Playford, although I think there is also a 6/8 Playford tune with this name as well. Does anyone know its origin?
I got it from this recording.
http://pzf.fremantle.org/2009/04/fareham-folk-festival-and-barham-down.html
# Posted on January 16th 2010 by geoffwright
Laurel Swift plays it on YouTube with this name as does Elke Baker the US fiddler
# Posted on January 17th 2010 by Michael Sam Wild
Barham Down
I've been through a village called Barham in Kent, in the Elham Valley between Canterbury and Folkestone. (Elham is pronounced 'Eelam', btw.) It's chalk country and there may well be a place nearby named, now or in former times, Barham Down.
However, the name Barham does occur in other places.
# Posted on January 17th 2010 by nicholas
There is a windmill on a hill called Barham Down.
The 6/6 tune of the same name is in Wm Mittel book but still no confiramation of the 3/2 being in Playford>
# Posted on January 18th 2010 by Michael Sam Wild
Barham Down
It's a nice tune. Come to think of it, I've heard it in an English-orientated session in Durham (UK).
# Posted on January 19th 2010 by nicholas
Sorry I meant the other is in 6/8 time
See quotes from melodeon.net for the Abc
http://forum.melodeon.net/index.php/topic,3240.0.html
# Posted on January 24th 2010 by Michael Sam Wild
Barham Down Youtube vid
Laurel Swift playing Brham Down :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaD7bcR6gnY&feature=channel
# Posted on February 4th 2010 by Col Arco