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'''HANNAH AT THE SPRINGHOUSE'''. | |f_annotation='''HANNAH AT THE SPRINGHOUSE'''. American, Reel (cut time). USA, West Virginia. A Mixolydian ('A' part) & A Dorian ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Hannah in the Springhouse" was in the repertoire of legendary fiddler Lewis Johnson "Uncle" Jack McElwain [http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1634] (1856-1938) of White Oak, a tributary of Laurel Creek, near the village of Erbacon, Webster County, West Virginia. [[File:mcelwaine.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Jack McElwaine]] | ||
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Local lore, remarks West Virginia musician and folklorist Gerry Milnes ('''Play of a Fiddle''', 1999), gives that Erbacon was named by the habit of the cook at the local hotel, who invariably asked, "Do you want ham 'r bacon? Investigating further, Milnes found that the town was actually named for E.R. Bacon, an official with the B & O railroad. Copen, Braxton County, West Virginia, fiddler Melvin Wine (1909-2003) learned the tune from his father, Bob, who had it from his father Nels and Grandfather "Smithy." | |||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Melvin Wine [Milliner & Koken, Phillips]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Clare Milliner & Walt Koken ('''Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes'''), 2011; pp. 282-283. Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2'''), 1995; p. 60. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Augusta Heritage AHR 021 CD, Melvin Wine – "Hannah at the Springhouse" (Reissue of 1989 Marimac cassette AHS-2). [https://augustaheritagecenter.org/store/melvin-wine-hannah-cd/]<br> | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/h01.htm#Hanatths]<br> | |||
Listen to Melvin Wine play the tune at Berea Sound Archives [https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/7363], Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/hannah-springhouse], and the Digital Library of Appalachia [http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/berea/id/723/rec/6]<br> | |||
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Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/h01.htm#Hanatths]<br> | |||
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Latest revision as of 01:18, 17 August 2021
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Local lore, remarks West Virginia musician and folklorist Gerry Milnes (Play of a Fiddle, 1999), gives that Erbacon was named by the habit of the cook at the local hotel, who invariably asked, "Do you want ham 'r bacon? Investigating further, Milnes found that the town was actually named for E.R. Bacon, an official with the B & O railroad. Copen, Braxton County, West Virginia, fiddler Melvin Wine (1909-2003) learned the tune from his father, Bob, who had it from his father Nels and Grandfather "Smithy."
