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Wee Tod

jig

Key signature: Amajor

Submitted on June 4th 2007 by FIDDLE4.

This tune has been added to 5 tunebooks.

Also known as Wee Todd, Wee Tot.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Edge Of Reason by Face The West
For As Many As Will by Haste To The Wedding

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Wee tod.

Scots jig - from Leslie Craig , Co Antrim.
I could only find the first part of this tune on
the Internet,,
.JIM McAULEY

# Posted on June 4th 2007 by FIDDLE4

Check your email Jim... ;-)

# Posted on June 4th 2007 by ceolachan

I guess the email wasn't clear enough... Here is your corrected transcription, but more public. Note, as said, if it is already K: A Major, the sharps are assumed and should not be added again in the transcript...

X: 1
T: Wee Tod
C: Leslie Craig ?
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig

K: A Major ( = ^F, ^f & ^c )

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# Posted on June 5th 2007 by ceolachan

Thanks for Imfo..

Yes yes thanks this must be an old one i was
useing navigator piano = it put the sharps +flats
in i was told this before = must look out for edit if
I can thanks again
jim,,,

# Posted on June 5th 2007 by FIDDLE4

FIDDLE4 ~ you can edit the ABCs, but only you can do that. Then it can convert to dots... ~ I'll make this stereo! ;-)

# Posted on June 5th 2007 by ceolachan

Click on the ABC tab above, then click on 'edit'... Once it is clean, and it isn't just your sharps ^, it can convert. You could just cut and paste what I've sent, making any adjustments you'd prefer...

# Posted on June 5th 2007 by ceolachan

This is great thanks..

If you are the man who writes the scores.
I have plenty of odd and rare tunes you can
convert- for the younger members to learn,,
JIM..

# Posted on June 5th 2007 by FIDDLE4

Wee tod - fixed

WeeTod Fixed the way I play it on stage,,
jim,

# Posted on June 5th 2007 by FIDDLE4

Good job FIDDLE4, that makes sense now and should eventually convert.

Is the composer Leslie Craig?

# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan

Composer unknowen yet

Leslie graig only gave me this tune but I'll ask
if he knows -this friday,,jim.

# Posted on June 6th 2007 by FIDDLE4

Traditional Scottish, as far as I know.

# Posted on June 6th 2007 by Kenny

"Wee Tot" ~ composed by Angus MacAulay

All I had to do was look instead of being distracted on so many sides. :-/ Here's an extract, better said than me ~ 'says Nigel Gatherer', another valued source ~

The Fiddler's Companion
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/index.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/WE_WEK.htm

WEE TODD [1]. Scottish, Jig. A Major. Standard. AABB. According to John MacPhee, Glasgow, the tune was composed by the late Angus MacAulay, originally from Benbecula, who spent his adult life in Glasgow. The real name of the tune is 'Wee Tot'. He composed the tune in 1956 for his grand-daughter who was about a year old at the time and originally called it “Wee Tot” in her honor, although the name has since become corrupted. MacAulay never wrote his tunes down, MacPhee explains, and it might have been lost except that musician Addie Harper heard it being played one night at a dance in Loch Carron. The melody impressed him enough to write it down, and later Harper’s band, the Wick Scottish Dance Band, included it on their tape “By the Peat Fire,” which helped to popularize it. However, on the Wick band album the tune (appearing as “Wee Todd”) is credited to "McLachlin, presumably Iain McLachlan of Benbecula, says Nigel Gatherer. Martin (Ceol na Fidhle), vol. 4, 1991; pg. 48.

# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan

"The Fiddle Music of the Scottish Highlands: Ceol na Fidhle Volumes Three and Four"

Compiled and arranged by Christine Martin
Taigh na Teud, 2002 (1988 & 1991)
ISBN: 1-871931-088

Page 69: "Wee Tod"
~ uncredited, some minor differences between transcripts...

# Posted on June 6th 2007 by ceolachan

Wee tod

WEE TODD [1]. Scottish, Jig. A Major. Standard. or WEE TOT.. Thankyou very much
for this imfo,, I'am glad to here his name- esp'
when mine 's Jim Mc Auley..

# Posted on June 7th 2007 by FIDDLE4

I always thought this was by Fergie MacDonald.

# Posted on August 13th 2008 by jakep