Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on December 22nd 2010 by Boots MacAllen.
This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Clarinet
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Gmaj
|:DC|B,DGB DGBd |B2B2 B2Bd|B2Bd B2Bd|dcAF D2(3DED|
CDFA DFAc|f2f2 f2ec|1f2ec f2ec|edBG D2:|2d2fe dcBA|G2 g2g2||
|:zA|(3ABA ^GA BAGA|FAdf a4| fagf egfe|dfe^c d^cBA|
(3ABA ^GA BAGA|FAdf a4|fagf egfe|d2f2 d2:|
|:DC|B,DGB DGBd |B2B2 B2Bd|B2Bd B2Bd|dcAF D2(3DED|
CDFA DFAc|f2f2 f2ec|1f2ec f2ec|edBG D2:|2d2fe dcBA|G2 g2g2||
|:g2|g4z ecA|G4z2G=F|EGcG EGcG|DGBG =F2=f2|
=f4z dBA|1G4z2 (3gag|b3=f b3=f|agec B2:|2G4 z2A2|G2AG ^FGAB|c2e2 c2||
Clarinet polka, Grandfather's Polka
Not really a Session tune but it is heard at contests and such in the U.S and Canada.I've heard it in B flat and G, Graham Townsend (at 2:15) seems to have liked in A.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5TylPfGKyA
# Posted on December 22nd 2010 by Boots MacAllen
Great tune! Stacy Phillips transcribed it twice in his Traditional American Fiddle Tunes books. You can hear a wonderful rendition by Leizime Brusoe's Orchestra at http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu This is fiddle, accordion, bass, and, yes, Clarinet.
You used to be able to listen to all the Jehile Kirkhuff you cared for at jehile.com but I see their archives aren't up anymore and you have to write the proprietors and ask for them to send you CDs; that's a shame. He was a terrific Pennsylvania fiddler, played a lot of Irish tunes by and by as well. Recorded the Clarinet a couple times too.
# Posted on December 23rd 2010 by KLR