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Blowzabella jig - what key?
Dave Sawdon:
Blowzabella is around the web in various keys - in what key does it usually appear in sessions?
Rob Lands:
EFDSS Hardcore English has Blow Zabella in G. and the notes refer it back to mid eighteenth century collections Such as Aird, Walsh and Johnson. As its not a melodeon tune book..........
Dave Sawdon:
Aha! I thought it was Blowzabella not Blow Zabella - that makes searching much simpler.
Blowzabella (the band) play it in D and Gm.
Thanks!
Edited to add: that resulted in me discovering an excellent tune resource I didn't know about: http://richardrobinson.tunebook.org.uk
tiny:
It certainly is a fabulous tune. My preference is to play it fairly slow and with lift. Key I play is in G.
Hugh Taylor:
We play it in D, though the local version in the Winder mss is in G. The traditional 5 part tune is all in one key, but if you want to play the modal 6th part (that I assume Blowzabella wrote?) then D will be much easier as you'll have the Cnat.
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