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|f_annotation='''WALDORF REEL.''' AKA - "Waldorf's Reel." American, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune is sourced to Guthrie "Gus" Meade and is said to be named after Waldorf, Maryland. It is thought that Meade recorded the tune and named it, although he did not compose it. The UNC Southern Folklife Collection records that Meade had an abiding interest in the tradtional music of Kentucky and spent his summers recording and interviewing Kentucky fiddlers; many of his reel-to-reel tapes are stored in the Library of Congress. "In 1956, Meade began an annotated discography of early traditional country music. The discography includes some 14,500 recordings of 3,500 songs organized into four categories: ballads, religious songs, instrumentals, and novelty songs. He worked on this discography until his death in 1991." | |||
'''WALDORF REEL.''' AKA - "Waldorf's Reel." | |||
[[File:gusmeade.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Gus Meade (1932-1991)]] | [[File:gusmeade.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Gus Meade (1932-1991)]] | ||
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|f_printed_sources=Clare Milliner & Walt Koken ('''Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes'''), 2011; p. 697. Silberberg ('''Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern'''), 2002; p. 164. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Vintage Records, Georgia Mudcats - "Barefoot in the Henhouse and Other Southern Delights" (2007). | |||
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See/hear the tune on youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOiBjeMpyjU]<br> | See/hear the tune on youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOiBjeMpyjU]<br> | ||
Hear Guthrie Meade play the tune at Slippery-Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/waldorf-reel]<br> | Hear Guthrie Meade play the tune at Slippery-Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/waldorf-reel]<br> | ||
See John Lamancusa's standard notation transcription [http://www.mne.psu.edu/lamancusa/tunes/waldorf.pdf], and Ken Torke's banjo tab [http://taterjoes.com/banjo/WaldorfsReel.pdf]<br> | See John Lamancusa's standard notation transcription [http://www.mne.psu.edu/lamancusa/tunes/waldorf.pdf], and Ken Torke's banjo tab [http://taterjoes.com/banjo/WaldorfsReel.pdf]<br> | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:47, 23 April 2020
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WALDORF REEL. AKA - "Waldorf's Reel." American, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune is sourced to Guthrie "Gus" Meade and is said to be named after Waldorf, Maryland. It is thought that Meade recorded the tune and named it, although he did not compose it. The UNC Southern Folklife Collection records that Meade had an abiding interest in the tradtional music of Kentucky and spent his summers recording and interviewing Kentucky fiddlers; many of his reel-to-reel tapes are stored in the Library of Congress. "In 1956, Meade began an annotated discography of early traditional country music. The discography includes some 14,500 recordings of 3,500 songs organized into four categories: ballads, religious songs, instrumentals, and novelty songs. He worked on this discography until his death in 1991."
