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|f_annotation='''NUMBER NINE.''' AKA - "Number 9." American, Reel (cut or 2/4 time). USA; Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB (Titon): AABB (Thede). The title refers to an engine of that number on the Rock Island Railroad in use in the 1870's, speculates Marion Thede. A tune by this title was remembered by Alva Greene (1894-1976) of Elliot County, Kentucky, as being one of regionally influential, blind, northeast Kentucky fiddler Ed Haley's big numbers. "Number Nine" was also recorded by Earl Collins, originally from Oklahoma. | |||
'''NUMBER NINE.''' | |f_sources_for_notated_versions=Earl Perkins (Tulsa County, Oklahoma; who said the tune originated between 1870 and 1880 in Missouri) [Thede]; Alva Greene (1894-1976, Sandy Hook, Elliot County, northeast Ky., 1973), who said he learned it from his father [Titon]. | ||
|f_printed_sources=Thede ('''The Fiddle Book'''), 1967; p. 47. Titon ('''Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes'''), 2001; No. 110, p. 139. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Briar 4204, Earl Collins - "That's Earl: Collins Family Fiddling" (1975). County 2714, Brad Leftwich - "Say Old Man" (1996). | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/n04.htm#Numni]<br> | |||
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/n04.htm#Numni]<br> | |||
Hear Alva Greene playing the tune in a 1973 field recording by Kevin Delaney at the Digital Library of Appalachia [http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/berea/id/1443/rec/2] and at Berea Digital Content [http://cdm15131.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15131coll4/id/1443/rec/5]<br> | Hear Alva Greene playing the tune in a 1973 field recording by Kevin Delaney at the Digital Library of Appalachia [http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/berea/id/1443/rec/2] and at Berea Digital Content [http://cdm15131.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15131coll4/id/1443/rec/5]<br> | ||
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Revision as of 20:34, 26 April 2020
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NUMBER NINE. AKA - "Number 9." American, Reel (cut or 2/4 time). USA; Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB (Titon): AABB (Thede). The title refers to an engine of that number on the Rock Island Railroad in use in the 1870's, speculates Marion Thede. A tune by this title was remembered by Alva Greene (1894-1976) of Elliot County, Kentucky, as being one of regionally influential, blind, northeast Kentucky fiddler Ed Haley's big numbers. "Number Nine" was also recorded by Earl Collins, originally from Oklahoma.