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'''HARVEY, THE'''. Canadian, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Harvey, New Brunswick, was the home town of Canadian radio and TV fiddler Don Messer (1909-1973). Parts of this tune are equivalent to several Pennsylvania collected untitled quadrilles that appear grouped together in Bayard (1981, Nos. 527-530, pp. 472-474), and the first part of "[[Rolling Off a Log]]" (Cole/Ryan's Mammoth). | '''HARVEY, THE'''. Canadian, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Harvey, New Brunswick, was the home town of Canadian radio and TV fiddler Don Messer (1909-1973), who became a national name in 1939, when Don Messer and His Islanders broadcast three times a week from Charlottetown on CBC Radio. Parts of this tune are equivalent to several Pennsylvania collected untitled quadrilles that appear grouped together in Bayard (1981, Nos. 527-530, pp. 472-474), and the first part of "[[Rolling Off a Log]]" (Cole/Ryan's Mammoth). | ||
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Revision as of 02:36, 4 October 2011
Tune properties and standard notation
HARVEY, THE. Canadian, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Harvey, New Brunswick, was the home town of Canadian radio and TV fiddler Don Messer (1909-1973), who became a national name in 1939, when Don Messer and His Islanders broadcast three times a week from Charlottetown on CBC Radio. Parts of this tune are equivalent to several Pennsylvania collected untitled quadrilles that appear grouped together in Bayard (1981, Nos. 527-530, pp. 472-474), and the first part of "Rolling Off a Log" (Cole/Ryan's Mammoth).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Messer (Way Down East), 1948; No. 79. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 137, p. 88.
Recorded sources: