Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on December 5th 2003 by Conway.
This tune has been added to 68 tunebooks.
Also known as The Auld Resting Chair, Da Auld Restin Chair, Da Auld Restin' Chair, Da Auld Resting Chair, The Old Resting Chair, Resting Chair.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Resting Chair, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Gmaj
B3 c A3 B |G2 D2 B,2 G,2 |C2 A2 B,2 GD |^CEAG F2 D2 |
B3 c A3 B |G2 D2 B,2 G,2 |C2 A2 D2 F2 |1 G6 D2 :|2G6 d2 ||
cBAG g3 d |e2 g2 d2 B2 |c3 d B2 G2 |E2 AG F2 D2 |
cBAG g3 d |e2 g2 d2 B2 |c3 e d2 F2 |G6 d2 |
cBAG g3 d |e2 g2 d2 B2 |c3 d B2 GD |^CEAG F2 D2 |
B3 c A3 B |G2 D2 B,2 G,2 |C2 A,2 D2 F2 |G8 ||
Barndance, hee hee that's a good one!
It think its full name is "The (or Da) Auld Resting Chair" and it is an air.
# Posted on December 5th 2003 by Jeeves Tones
Yes it's an air, which isn't an option when submitting tunes. What's the closest thing to an air? I didn't know what to put :-|
# Posted on December 5th 2003 by Conway
The hee hee wasn't directed at you Conway. I've come up against the same problem - I submitted a piece by Carolan and had to call it a waltz (barf).
# Posted on December 5th 2003 by Jeeves Tones
No offense taken & I really am grateful to be corrected! I didn't know what it was until I looked at a different file.
# Posted on December 5th 2003 by Conway
Lovely tune. Thanks Brother Steve.
# Posted on December 5th 2003 by gian marco
Thanks Conway!
# Posted on December 5th 2003 by gian marco
Da Auld Resting Chair
Isn't this a shetland tune - by Tom Anderson. It certainly has a similar feel to Da Slockit Light.
Noel Jackson
Angels of the North
# Posted on December 7th 2003 by noelbats
Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson is the composer of this tune.
Good Luck.
Mike Allen.
# Posted on December 7th 2003 by Mikea
Da Auld Resting Chair
I have Tom Anderson's CD The Silver Bow with me today, and according to his liner notes he wrote this tune upon finding, in the ruins of his grandfather's cottage, the remains of the "resting chair" his grandfather used to sit on while teaching Tom to play the fiddle. Rather a touching story.
# Posted on March 25th 2004 by sara g
The Auld Resting Chair
Fiddler and former band mate of the ubiquitous Mick Maloney, Eugene O'Donnell plays a splendid variant of this tune on his solo album from the late 70s or early 80s. If I'm not "misremembering", the album was called, aptly enough, Eugene O'Donnell. Great stuff, altogether.
# Posted on March 31st 2005 by mkearney
This tune also appears on “Lios A’Cheoil, Traditional Irish Music” by Tom and Kerry Barrett with Paul de Grae. Their liner notes indicate that it was composed by Tom Anderson and is a tribute to his grandfather as well. A brilliant Air!
Peace,
Ed
# Posted on August 3rd 2005 by ejsant
"Haand me doon da fiddle" ~ Tom Anderson & Pam Swing
The University of Stirling, 1979
ISBN: 0-901636-25-8
#33: "Da Auld Resting Chair"
# Posted on December 16th 2005 by ceolachan
Da Auld Resting Chair
Does anyone know or have a second part or counter melody for this lovely tune ?
# Posted on December 3rd 2007 by René Warny
Da Auld Resting Chair - second part
By a remarkable coincidence, I was given a copy of both parts last week (looking at transcribing it for guitar).
I took it out to look at it this evening and looked it up on thesessions, and noticed your post. So, your luck's in!
Here's the second fiddle part (my first attempt at transcribing into ABC).
Best regards,
Dave
X: 1
T: Resting Chair, The (second fiddle)
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: air
K: Gmaj
z2| (g3 a) (f3 g) |(d2 B2) (B2 G2) |c4 d4 |^c4 d4 |
(g3 a) (f3 g) |(d2 B2) (B2 G2) |(cd)(ec) d2 c2 | B6 :||
d2 | (ed)(cB) B4 |c4 B4 |A4 (G2 B2) |^c4 d4 |(ed)(cB) B4|
c4 B4 |A2 (Bc) B2 c2 |B6 d2| (ed)(cB) B4| c4 B4 |
A4 (G2B2) |^c4 d4 |(g3a) (f3 g) | (d2B2) (B2 G2) |(cd)(ec) (d2c2)|B6 ||
# Posted on December 3rd 2007 by deluxe59er
Da Auld Resting Chair
Thanks a million, Dave, for transcribing the second part and sharing it. Sounds nice. Do you know the author ?
René
# Posted on December 8th 2007 by René Warny
James Scott Skinner
A friend of mine plays this tune and calls it "The Old Racking Chair." He has always told me it was a James Scott Skinner tune. Any idea how he could have been confused? Does Skinner have any connection with the tune in the slightest?
# Posted on August 11th 2008 by 52Paddy
The Old Resting Chair
This song appears on Buttons and Bows first album with the title "The Old Resting Chair" - at least in the version that I have.
# Posted on September 29th 2008 by Rolf Gidlow
C: Tom Anderson - of Shetland fiddling fame
"Any idea how he could have been confused?" - 52Paddy
Drink, pickling himself or the person who gave him the wrong name and the wrong composer... Also composer of others, like "Da Slockit Light":
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1863
The WORST thing that can and has been done to these fine tunes, by people who have obviously not bothered to hear the composer's own ways with them, is to drag them out as a melodramatic dirge, some folks misguided concept of what an 'air' is, Hollywood fashion and slurpy... They definitely lose something when butchered that way.
# Posted on December 6th 2011 by ceolachan
"haand me doon da fiddle" - Tom Anderson & Pam Swing
ISBN: 0-901636-25-8
First published in 1979 by the Department of Continuing Education, The University of Sterling
Page 44, tune #33 ~ "Da Auld Resting Chair"
"Dis is a slow air o' me ain at I composed in 1968 whin I fan at Hamnavoe, whaur me grand feider bedd, da brucks o' da auld resting chair dat he sat upo whin he wis learnin me ta play da fiddle." ~ Tom Anderson
# Posted on December 6th 2011 by ceolachan
University of Stirling, Ceolachan - it's not a banking school!
# Posted on December 6th 2011 by Weejie
Credit where credit is due, Weejie. He spelled it correctly in 2005!
# Posted on December 6th 2011 by ʎɹoʇısuɐɹʇ
At least on this thread he did.
# Posted on December 7th 2011 by ʎɹoʇısuɐɹʇ