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|f_track=The Fox Chase.mp3
|f_track=Elk River Blues.mp3
|f_pdf=Fox Chase.pdf
|f_pdf=Elk River Blues.pdf
|f_artwork=Edmund_Keating_Hyland_plaque.jpg
|f_artwork=Ernie Carpenter.jpg
|f_tune_name=The Fox Chase
|f_tune_name=Elk River Blues
|f_track_title=Fox_Chase_(3)_(The)
|f_track_title=Elk River Blues
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|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/mhichealoriabhaigh Mhícheál Ó Riabhaigh]
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/jatek-zenekar Jatek Zenekar]
|f_notes=Keating Hyland plaque, Cahir
|f_notes=Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997)
|f_caption=The Fox Chase" is the tune by which every piper seems to have been judged, at least in the 19th century, when it was ubiquitous among pipers.
|f_caption=According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life.
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/mhichealoriabhaigh/the-fox-chase Soundcloud]  
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/jatek-zenekar/elk-river-blues Soundcloud]
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|f_article=[[Fox_Chase_(3)_(The) | '''The Fox Chase''']]
|f_article=[[Elk River Blues | '''Elk River Blues''']]


A programatic piece replete with 'horns' and the 'cry of the hounds', 'death of the fox', and winds up with "[[Foxhunter's Jig (1) (The)]]."
Composed by Braxton County, West Virginia, old-time fiddler Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997).


Some sections are variously in 3/4, 6/8 and 9/8 time. This "Fox Chase" was composed around 1799 by celebrated blind Co. Tipperary piper Edward Keating Hyland (1780-1845), who once received a set of expensive pipes from King George IV of England (who heard the piper while visiting Dublin in 1821) as a mark of recognition for his performance, according to Irish antiquarian Gratten Flood.  
According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life. He had worked most of his life for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in Clarksburg, prior to retiring in 1972 to his home in Braxton County, West Virginia.  


It is the model for the Scottish "[[Hunting of the Fox (The)]]," but Hyland based his piece on an older (though short, eight-bar) song called "[[Maidrin Ruadh (An)]]" ([[Modhereen rua]]), which is based on a dialogue between a farmer and a fox which he had detected "with the goods" on him in the form of "a fine fat goose."
He was a regular visitor during his working years to his homeplace on the Elk River, and was witness to the planning and construction of the Sutton Dam by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the river during the 1950's and 1960's.  


The piper's piece concludes with the well-known slip jig "[[Foxhunter's Jig (1) (The)]]." Hyland's version, the first full version, appears in O'Farrell's '''Pocket Companion of the Irish or Union Pipes''' (vol. 1, book 2, c. 1806) {under the title "[[Irish Fox Hunt (The)]]"}. Hyland was no simple country piper, but an individual who studied harmony under Thomas Moore’s musical collaborator, Sir John Stevenson.  
Unfortunately, this resulted in the flooding of his boyhood home and the surrounding area, despite the efforts of himself and neighbors to forestall the project through a lobbyist. He refused the government's initial offer for his land (they didn't offer him anything for his house), and took the case to court.  


O'Neill (1913) also prints two MS versions of the tune, one from Henry Hudson, c. 1841, and the other from Prof. P.H. Griffith of Dublin--the latter being a Tipperary version. Knowles (1995) finds parts of "The Fox Chase" in an anonymous 18th century English manuscript, in which it is entitled "Foxhunter Hornpipe (The)," and calls it "certainly the oldest known version" of the tune.
He was able to gain a marked increase in the money he eventually was paid through this process, although he had to pay legal fees out of his pocket. He stayed in his Elk River homestead while the dam was being constructed, even though most of his neighbors had already left. Workmen blocked the roads in and out of the area, but Carpenter found alternate routes until they too were closed off.  
 
"I was the last person out of there," he said," I went ahead then and tore the old place town and brought it up here. Part of its in this house." Of the tune, he remarked: "I was sittin' here one day, an' I had the blues. I reckon as bad as anybody could, thinkin' about my old homeplace up on the Elk River. I started sawin' on the fiddle an' that's what I came up with."
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According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life.
Elk River Blues

Played by: Jatek Zenekar
Source: Soundcloud
Image: Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997)

Elk River Blues

Composed by Braxton County, West Virginia, old-time fiddler Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997).

According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life. He had worked most of his life for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in Clarksburg, prior to retiring in 1972 to his home in Braxton County, West Virginia.

He was a regular visitor during his working years to his homeplace on the Elk River, and was witness to the planning and construction of the Sutton Dam by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the river during the 1950's and 1960's.

Unfortunately, this resulted in the flooding of his boyhood home and the surrounding area, despite the efforts of himself and neighbors to forestall the project through a lobbyist. He refused the government's initial offer for his land (they didn't offer him anything for his house), and took the case to court.

He was able to gain a marked increase in the money he eventually was paid through this process, although he had to pay legal fees out of his pocket. He stayed in his Elk River homestead while the dam was being constructed, even though most of his neighbors had already left. Workmen blocked the roads in and out of the area, but Carpenter found alternate routes until they too were closed off.

"I was the last person out of there," he said," I went ahead then and tore the old place town and brought it up here. Part of its in this house." Of the tune, he remarked: "I was sittin' here one day, an' I had the blues. I reckon as bad as anybody could, thinkin' about my old homeplace up on the Elk River. I started sawin' on the fiddle an' that's what I came up with."

...more at: Elk River Blues - full Score(s) and Annotations



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