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'''OLD VIOLE.''' AKA - "[[Old Voyle]]." AKA and see "[[Constitution Hornpipe (3)]]," "[[Farewell Mary Ann]]," "[[J.B. Miller's Reel]]" Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. The tune comes from Grant County, Kentucky, and was recorded by fiddler Frank Miller with the north-central Kentucky group the Blue Ridge Mountaineers in 1929 for Gennett Records. It was named after a man whose name was Viole Franks, a mail carrier in Grant County who played the tune but had no name for it. The tune was | '''OLD VIOLE.''' AKA - "Old Voile," "[[Old Voyle]]." AKA and see "[[Constitution Hornpipe (3)]]," "[[Farewell Mary Ann]]," "[[J.B. Miller's Reel]]" Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. The tune comes from Grant County, Kentucky, and was recorded by fiddler Frank Miller with the north-central Kentucky group the Blue Ridge Mountaineers in 1929 for Gennett Records. It was named after a man whose name was Viole Franks, a mail carrier in Grant County who played the tune but had no name for it. Field researcher John Harrod collected "Old Voile" from the playing of fiddler Jarvie Hall (accompanied by L.C. Martin and Clarence Skirvin) in Gallatin County, Kentucky, in June, 1978. The tune was collected in Anderson County, Kentucky, under the title "Constitution Hornpipe," and a close variant was similarly collected in Mississippi as "Farewell Mary Ann." In modern time Miller's name seems to have evolved into "J.B." instead of 'Frank', and the tune has been called "[[J.B. Miller's Reel]]." | ||
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Hear the Blue Ridge Mountaineers recording at youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIkpj-R0XN0]<br> | Hear the Blue Ridge Mountaineers recording at youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIkpj-R0XN0]<br> | ||
Hear John Harrod's 1978 recording of fiddler Jarvie Hall at the Digital Library of Appalachia [https://dla.acaweb.org/digital/collection/berea/id/3279]<br> | |||
See a standard notation transcription by John Lamancusa [https://www.mne.psu.edu/lamancusa/tunes/OldVoile.pdf]<br> | |||
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OLD VIOLE. AKA - "Old Voile," "Old Voyle." AKA and see "Constitution Hornpipe (3)," "Farewell Mary Ann," "J.B. Miller's Reel" Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. The tune comes from Grant County, Kentucky, and was recorded by fiddler Frank Miller with the north-central Kentucky group the Blue Ridge Mountaineers in 1929 for Gennett Records. It was named after a man whose name was Viole Franks, a mail carrier in Grant County who played the tune but had no name for it. Field researcher John Harrod collected "Old Voile" from the playing of fiddler Jarvie Hall (accompanied by L.C. Martin and Clarence Skirvin) in Gallatin County, Kentucky, in June, 1978. The tune was collected in Anderson County, Kentucky, under the title "Constitution Hornpipe," and a close variant was similarly collected in Mississippi as "Farewell Mary Ann." In modern time Miller's name seems to have evolved into "J.B." instead of 'Frank', and the tune has been called "J.B. Miller's Reel."