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'''SACRAMENTO MOUNTAIN RAG.''' AKA – “Sacramento Rag.” Old-Time, Country Rag. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. | '''SACRAMENTO MOUNTAIN RAG.''' AKA – “Sacramento Rag.” Old-Time, Country Rag (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Engstrom, Floyd - Floyd Engstrom was born in Bremerton, Washington in 1918. His father was from Sweden, and his mother was from Wisconsin. His family moved to the Duvall, Washington area, and Floyd took violin lessons in school. In the 1930's he learned tunes from a local old time fiddler and started playing for country dances. “We played for dances at an old one room school house that didn't have school in it any more, and we had gasoline lanterns for light, no electricity in the area.” The band usually included two fiddles, trumpet, piano, and Hawaiian guitar. They played waltzes, foxtrots, schottisches, polkas, the Varsouvianna, the Tuxedo, and the Circle Two-Step. | ||
He quit playing around 1940, when he moved to Bremerton and worked at the Navy yard. He started in again in 1978 after he retired, and became active with the Washington Old Time Fiddle Association. | |||
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<font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> - </font> | <font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> - Junior Daugherty - Oldtime fiddling & other folk music, Weiser, Idaho, 1975" (1975). </font> | ||
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Hear a field recording of Floyd Engstrom playing the tune at Voyager Records [https://www.voyagerrecords.com/NWMP3/Sacramento%20Mountain%20Rag%20FE.mp3]<br> | |||
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [https://www.ibiblio.org/folkindex/s01.htm#Sacmora]<br> | |||
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SACRAMENTO MOUNTAIN RAG. AKA – “Sacramento Rag.” Old-Time, Country Rag (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Engstrom, Floyd - Floyd Engstrom was born in Bremerton, Washington in 1918. His father was from Sweden, and his mother was from Wisconsin. His family moved to the Duvall, Washington area, and Floyd took violin lessons in school. In the 1930's he learned tunes from a local old time fiddler and started playing for country dances. “We played for dances at an old one room school house that didn't have school in it any more, and we had gasoline lanterns for light, no electricity in the area.” The band usually included two fiddles, trumpet, piano, and Hawaiian guitar. They played waltzes, foxtrots, schottisches, polkas, the Varsouvianna, the Tuxedo, and the Circle Two-Step.
He quit playing around 1940, when he moved to Bremerton and worked at the Navy yard. He started in again in 1978 after he retired, and became active with the Washington Old Time Fiddle Association.