Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on June 19th 2003 by crannog.
This tune has been added to 30 tunebooks.
Also known as Toss The Fiddle.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Toss The Fiddles
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
|:F2 EF|D4| AdcA|G4|F2 EF|D4|Addc|d4:|
A-B2B|d-c2c|AABB|dc2c|AAdd|cd3|(3e/f/g/ fdd|cB3|
A-B2B|dc2c|A-B2B|dc2c|AA dd|gg fa|ee dd|c d3||
" gorgeous little tune" said Liz Carroll....
.. about this tune, when she played it at the Philadelphia Ceili Groupīs Festival 2002 ( philadelphia ceili group put it as last track on their festival cd and named the whole cd "Toss the Fiddles"). The tune is composed by Liz Knowles ....
... and sorry, Jeremy, for puzzling you. That happens, when a german sits on a piano a night long to figure out the notes and forgets to change all his german Hs into international Bs.....
# Posted on June 19th 2003 by crannog
This is actually the first time I've seen this tune written out, so it may very well be a polka, but in Philadelphia, it tends to be played as a slow reel of sorts. In a set that is almost guaranteed to be played during the Sunday session at the Plough and the Stars, it's played after Her Long Black Hair (played in A Minor, not the B Minor version as listed on this site). Again, this whole set is usually played as slow reels.
# Posted on June 20th 2003 by Jason G
now even the tripled ploblem is fixed: the first three notes are tripleds of sixteenth, the second three notes are streight 1/8s. So the sheet does not show it right, but the abc is ok and does it fine on your abc interpreter at home...
# Posted on June 21st 2003 by crannog
yes connaughtman, I canīt play it as a polka either... to call it "slow reel" makes sense, but its called a "polca" on that mentioned cd, that I got from Philadelphia..
I started playing it with a friend who produced growing chord structures on his piano box during the three turns we went through .... and we asked ourselves wether this tune was written as a testing tool for church organs. when we introduced it the first time to our favourite session, people asked wether it is a tune from sweden...
# Posted on June 21st 2003 by crannog