Ebor_fiddler’s nine hundred and sixty-seven comments

This thread reminded me to sing the song at our session last night. It went down a storm. Thanks Phil! more…

The High Level Ranters recorded it on one of their classic LP's - Ranting Lads (Topic 12TS388), 1976. more…

My show-off tune is "Horse's Brawl", an Anglo-French tune from Tudor times. I play it on fiddle in G/Gm - the Bb properly messes up the D/G melodeon players! The dance isn't bad either! more…

Yes, it's definitely a Northumbrian pipes tune, as is the other one in 9/8 which Carthy and Swarbrick used to play. Though I believe that Bert Lloyd had a lot to do with that arrangement. Martin can no doubt correct me of I'm wrong. more…

Byker Hill is at Byker and Walker Shore is at Walker. You can bike from Byker to Walker, but you've got to walk from Walker to Byker. It's a Tyneside song. Here's one version (though not a very good one), but be warned there's no "B" part! more…

A slow(ish) air really, though it can be played faster than this, if you really want to. It describes one of the leading fiddlers of the North East of England revival, relaxing (with his cat). One of Johnny Handle's best. more…

Richard D. Cook - how do you define "correct" in the case of a tune within the folk tradition please? more…

What I hate is when I start a tune at dance speed, some smartarse decides I'm playing it too slowly and takes over. This happened only last week when I was playing "Le Canal En Octobre", which is what the French call a Scottish and we, a Schottische, danc... more…

Melnet members nailed it at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01rjt2j more…

Many chords can be put against the same notes (eg a "C" or a "G" chord against the note "C") and a musician can choose which ones to use and the order in which they are used. Using different ones from another person does NOT create a different tune, howev... more…