User talk:Janihoward121253

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Tunes from 18th Century Wales played in the Appalachians and Now Used as Old-Time Tunes

Hi, I'm trying to identify fiddle tunes that may have travelled from Wales UK in the early 1700s to the Southern Appalachian Mountains (mostly Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and North Carolina say) and are now used as Old-Time tunes, probably with anglicised names.

I've queried the archive looking for 4/4 tunes that have come from Wales (there aren't any 6/8 tunes in Old-Time, perhaps because of the 5-string banjo tradition?) and come up with the list shown below. I've then tried to find these tunes in my Welsh Fiddle Tune Books and attempted to play them in an Old-Time style, but without a lot of success yet. Others that I've come up with include Pwt ar y Bys (Buttered Pease) and Pant Corlan yr Wyn (Lambs's Fold Vale) and these seem to be possibilities, but I don't recognise them as Old-Time tunes played in jams over here in the UK.

Has anyone got any ideas about how I should make progress?

Thanks --Jan Howard (talk) 13:59, 12 March 2017 (UTC) Jan Howard

Tune Abergenny Glory of the West (The) Welsh Dance (A) Red House of Cardiff Amusement of the Men of Dovey (The) Chestnut Leap Over the Stone (A) Mae Nhw'n D'wedyd Meillionen Cowslip (1) Offa's Dyke Welsh Morris Dance (1) Cynsêt Mary Ap Shenkin Cambro-Briton (The) Prestwick Bells Lumps of Puddings (2) First of August (The) Blue Devils (2) (The) Black Joke (1) (The) Oswestry Wake