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Re: Lester's Tune-a-Day Blog
« Reply #587 on: August 02, 2014, 09:44:16 PM »

My tune-a-day blog has just reached 100,002 page views  (:)

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« Reply #588 on: August 06, 2014, 05:39:06 PM »

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Re: Lester's Tune-a-Day Blog
« Reply #589 on: August 26, 2014, 11:26:04 AM »

A fgew tunes coming along as a result of my visit to the Whitby Folk Week.

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Re: Lester's Tune-a-Day Blog
« Reply #591 on: September 13, 2014, 12:52:53 AM »

Cumberland Waltz

Is this what we in the Far East appear to know as the Wells Waltz ?? - version by Steve here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuQEz9sDbOs (PRS note, aka should be as common as Trad or Anon  >:E )

Thanks Lester, I hope you know just how inspirational a resource your growing collection of videos is (are??)
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Re: Lester's Tune-a-Day Blog
« Reply #592 on: September 13, 2014, 07:41:13 AM »

Cumberland Waltz

Is this what we in the Far East appear to know as the Wells Waltz ?? - version by Steve here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuQEz9sDbOs (PRS note, aka should be as common as Trad or Anon  >:E )

Thanks Lester, I hope you know just how inspirational a resource your growing collection of videos is (are??)

I would say they are quite distinctively different http://lesters-tune-a-day.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/tune-161-wells-waltz.html

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Re: Lester's Tune-a-Day Blog
« Reply #593 on: September 13, 2014, 08:26:16 AM »

I agree with Lester - Wells Waltz and Cumberland Waltz are really quite different tunes.

Mollie Whittaker learned the Wells Waltz from her father; where he got it from we have no idea. Until it became more popular in recent years, thanks to the archive recording collecting by John and Katie Howson and their playing, it seemed to be a virtually unknown tune. The recording was published on Veteran Music cassette VTVS 07/08 'I Thought I Was the Only One' and subsequently appeared in the tunebook 'Hawk and Harnser -  A Compilation of Traditional Norfolk Dance Tunes' (compiled by Alan Helsdon) and later in the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust tunebook 'Before the Night Was Out'.

The Cumberland Waltz appears to be a tune (as the name suggests) from the north-west of England. It appears in the tunebook 'A Northern Lass' compiled by Jamie Knowles, but more than that I know nothing.

But most importantly, both are great tunes and lovely to play.   (:)
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Re: Lester's Tune-a-Day Blog
« Reply #594 on: September 13, 2014, 07:39:18 PM »

Re Cumberland waltz. Some years ago at Witney, Julian Sutton taught that as "Elsey's Waltz".
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Re: Lester's Tune-a-Day Blog
« Reply #595 on: September 13, 2014, 08:48:30 PM »

Re Cumberland waltz. Some years ago at Witney, Julian Sutton taught that as "Elsey's Waltz".

Elsey's Waltz is a different tune

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Re: Lester's Tune-a-Day Blog
« Reply #596 on: September 13, 2014, 09:21:25 PM »

Cumberland Waltz (as played by Lester) seems to have got into the English repertory from the early 1950s recording by Robert Forrester (moothie) & Norman Alford (whistle) subsequently issued on the Veteran CD 'Pass the Jug Around'. However, the same tune was later recorded by the Scots moothie player Donald Black on his CD 'Keil Road' under the title 'Waltz Quadrille'. In the sleeve notes for the latter, Black states that the tune was first recorded in Canada in the 1930s by George Wade & His Cornhuskers, a band whose repertory included old-time, Scots and Irish tunes. So FWIW maybe it's originally Scots, maybe originally Canadian.
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Re: Lester's Tune-a-Day Blog
« Reply #597 on: September 13, 2014, 09:27:24 PM »

Cumberland Waltz (as played by Lester) seems to have got into the English repertory from the early 1950s recording by Robert Forrester (moothie) & Norman Alford (whistle) subsequently issued on the Veteran CD 'Pass the Jug Around'. However, the same tune was later recorded by the Scots moothie player Donald Black on his CD 'Keil Road' under the title 'Waltz Quadrille'. In the sleeve notes for the latter, Black states that the tune was first recorded in Canada in the 1930s by George Wade & His Cornhuskers, a band whose repertory included old-time, Scots and Irish tunes. So FWIW maybe it's originally Scots, maybe originally Canadian.
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Thanks Steve I will update my blog post.

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Re: Lester's Tune-a-Day Blog
« Reply #598 on: September 14, 2014, 12:58:28 AM »

I agree with Lester - Wells Waltz and Cumberland Waltz are really quite different tunes.

(snip)

But most importantly, both are great tunes and lovely to play.   (:)

Thanks both, short term memory is soooo important to telling the difference  :o start out on one tune, a phrase leads you into something else and before you know it the 'Here be Dragons' bit of the map is passed and you're over the edge..........

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