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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, | |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, according to Marion Thede (1967): | ||
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''When it was in use in early days it reached Pond Criik and Enid (orignially called Skeleton) March 2, 1890, when Oklahoma Territory'' | |||
''was created. This engine was restored by the Rock Island and run from Chickasha, Oklahoma, to Anadarko in August, 1959. As a publicity'' | |||
''stunt a group of Indians on horseback, reenacting Indian days of long agi, "chased" the train pulled by Number Nine, shooting at it'' | |||
''with bows and arrows.'' | |||
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"Number Nine" was also recorded by southern California fiddler Earl Collins, originally from Oklahoma, whose family roots were in Missouri. | |||
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Curiously, the same tune (in much the same version) 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. Greene learned it from his father, and this puts the tune in northeast Kentucky probably prior to it having been in Oklahoma. | |||
|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_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_printed_sources=Thede ('''The Fiddle Book'''), 1967; p. 47. Titon ('''Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes'''), 2001; No. 110, p. 139. | ||
Revision as of 20:49, 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, according to Marion Thede (1967):
When it was in use in early days it reached Pond Criik and Enid (orignially called Skeleton) March 2, 1890, when Oklahoma Territory was created. This engine was restored by the Rock Island and run from Chickasha, Oklahoma, to Anadarko in August, 1959. As a publicity stunt a group of Indians on horseback, reenacting Indian days of long agi, "chased" the train pulled by Number Nine, shooting at it with bows and arrows.
"Number Nine" was also recorded by southern California fiddler Earl Collins, originally from Oklahoma, whose family roots were in Missouri.
Curiously, the same tune (in much the same version) 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. Greene learned it from his father, and this puts the tune in northeast Kentucky probably prior to it having been in Oklahoma.
