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|f_annotation='''LARDNER'S REEL [1]'''. AKA - "[[Rodner's Reel]]." AKA and see "[[King of all Reels]]." American, Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B (irregular in the 'B' part). The tune originally appeared in blackface minstrel James Buckley's '''New Banjo Method''' (1860) under the title "[[King of all Reels]]." In his analysis of the tune, Bayard treated the two parts of this tune as separate and pointed out they are seldom found together. "While the first half of this tune occurs pretty frequently in our instrumental tradition, it seems to have no steadfast association with any one second strain." The second strain is shared with "[[Turnpike Reel (The)]]", whilst the first strain is shared with (or related to) "[[Leviathan Hornpipe]]" and "[[Prairie Hornpipe]]." The first strain can also be traced back to "[[Aldridge's Hornpipe (1)]]" named after the famous 18th century stage dancer, Richard Aldridge. See also the related "[[Big Indian Hornpipe]]" from the playing of northeast Kentucky fiddlers Jimmy Wheeler, Morris Allen and Buddy Thomas. Bath County, east Kentucky, fiddler George Hawkins (1904-1991) played the both parts of "Lardner's Reel" but knew it as "[[Rodner's Reel]]," a corrupted version of the title in '''Ryan's Mammoth''' (1883). | |||
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'''LARDNER'S REEL [1]'''. AKA - "[[Rodner's Reel]]." AKA and see "[[King of all Reels]]." American, Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B (irregular in the 'B' part). The tune originally appeared in blackface minstrel James Buckley's '''New Banjo Method''' (1860) under the title "[[King of all Reels]]." In his analysis of the tune, Bayard treated the two parts of this tune as separate and pointed out they are seldom found together. "While the first half of this tune occurs pretty frequently in our instrumental tradition, it seems to have no steadfast association with any one second strain." The second strain is shared with "[[Turnpike Reel (The)]]", | |||
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The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountains fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. Irish variants include the hornpipe "[[Halfway House (The)]]" and "[[Turnpike Reel (The)]]." | The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountains fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. Irish variants include the hornpipe "[[Halfway House (The)]]" and "[[Turnpike Reel (The)]]." | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Irvin Yaugher (Mt. Independence, Fayette County, southwestern Pa., 1946) [Bayard]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Bayard ('''Hill Country Tunes'''), 1944; No. 20. Cole ('''1000 Fiddle Tunes'''), 1940; p. 19. '''Harding's Original Collection''', 1928; No. 107. '''Harding's All-Round Collection''', 1905 & 1932; No. 178 (appears as "[[Prairie Hornpipe]]"). Miller & Perron ('''New England Fiddlers Repertoire'''), 1983; No. 69. Robbins ('''Collection of 200 Jigs, Reels, and Country Dances'''), 1933; No. 9. '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''', 1883; p. 44. | |||
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|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/l02.htm#Larre]<br> | |||
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/l02.htm#Larre]<br> | |||
Hear a live-performance recording from 1977 of Ky. fiddler George Hawkins playing his "Rodner's Reel" at the Digital Library of Appalachia [https://dla.acaweb.org/digital/collection/berea/id/2448]<br> | Hear a live-performance recording from 1977 of Ky. fiddler George Hawkins playing his "Rodner's Reel" at the Digital Library of Appalachia [https://dla.acaweb.org/digital/collection/berea/id/2448]<br> | ||
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Revision as of 16:16, 29 September 2020
X: 1 T: Lardner's Reel [1] M: C| L: 1/8 B: NEFR #69 B: Ryan's "Mammoth Collection", 1883, p.44 #144 F: http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/LAR.htm N: The Fiddler's Companion notes that the first part of this tune is combined with the N: second parts of several other reels, and this is common in tunes of American origin. F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/abc/Contra/NEFR/T/Lardners_Reel.abc K: A E2 \ | A2 Ac BA GB | Ac eg a2 ga | bg eg ag fe | dc BA GB EG | | A2 Ac BA GB | Ac eg a2 ga | bg eg ag ae | fd BG A2 :| |: E2 \ | E2 GE BE GB | A2 cA eA cA | B2 ^dB fB dB | e2 ge bg eg | | ag ae fa ec | de fg ag af | ea gf ed cB | cE GB A2 :|
LARDNER'S REEL [1]. AKA - "Rodner's Reel." AKA and see "King of all Reels." American, Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B (irregular in the 'B' part). The tune originally appeared in blackface minstrel James Buckley's New Banjo Method (1860) under the title "King of all Reels." In his analysis of the tune, Bayard treated the two parts of this tune as separate and pointed out they are seldom found together. "While the first half of this tune occurs pretty frequently in our instrumental tradition, it seems to have no steadfast association with any one second strain." The second strain is shared with "Turnpike Reel (The)", whilst the first strain is shared with (or related to) "Leviathan Hornpipe" and "Prairie Hornpipe." The first strain can also be traced back to "Aldridge's Hornpipe (1)" named after the famous 18th century stage dancer, Richard Aldridge. See also the related "Big Indian Hornpipe" from the playing of northeast Kentucky fiddlers Jimmy Wheeler, Morris Allen and Buddy Thomas. Bath County, east Kentucky, fiddler George Hawkins (1904-1991) played the both parts of "Lardner's Reel" but knew it as "Rodner's Reel," a corrupted version of the title in Ryan's Mammoth (1883).
The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountains fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. Irish variants include the hornpipe "Halfway House (The)" and "Turnpike Reel (The)."
