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|f_annotation='''OSCAR WOODS' JIG.''' AKA - "Oscar's Jig." AKA and see "[[Mother Goose]]," "[[Grandmother's Pet]]." English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Oscar Woods was a melodeon player from Benhall Green, near Saxmundham, Suffolk, who was first inspired to pick up the instrument as a farmboy when he heard an old farm worker, 'Tiger' Smith, play. When Woods was older he and Tiger became playing partners in local pubs, where he also learned from other melodeon players, in particular the Seamen family of Darsham. | |f_annotation='''OSCAR WOODS' JIG.''' AKA - "Oscar's Jig." AKA and see "[[Mother Goose]]," "[[Grandfather's Pet (1)]]," "[[Grandmother's Pet]]," "[[Jig (53)]]." English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Oscar Woods' Jig" has a provenance that is yet to be ascertained. O'Neill prints the tune as "[[Grandfather's Pet (1)]]," although Peter Kennedy has a different tune by that name. However, the tune had been printed far earlier in Boston by G. Graupner in his '''Collection of Country Dances and Cotillions''' (c. 1808) as "Mother Goose", and it was entered as an untitled jig in County Leitrim fiddler and piper Stephen Grier's large c. 1883 music manuscript collection (Grier No. 122, for which see "[[Jig (53)]]"). | ||
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Oscar Woods was a melodeon player from Benhall Green, near Saxmundham, Suffolk, who was first inspired to pick up the instrument as a farmboy when he heard an old farm worker, 'Tiger' Smith, play. When Woods was older he and Tiger became playing partners in local pubs, where he also learned from other melodeon players, in particular the Seamen family of Darsham. | |||
|f_source_for_notated_version=from Oscar Woods, recorded by Tony Engle in 1973, via John Kirkpatrick's recording from English Choice [Callaghan]. | |f_source_for_notated_version=from Oscar Woods, recorded by Tony Engle in 1973, via John Kirkpatrick's recording from English Choice [Callaghan]. | ||
|f_printed_sources=Callaghan ('''Hardcore English'''), 2007; p. 62. | |f_printed_sources=Callaghan ('''Hardcore English'''), 2007; p. 62. | ||
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OSCAR WOODS' JIG. AKA - "Oscar's Jig." AKA and see "Mother Goose," "Grandfather's Pet (1)," "Grandmother's Pet," "Jig (53)." English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Oscar Woods' Jig" has a provenance that is yet to be ascertained. O'Neill prints the tune as "Grandfather's Pet (1)," although Peter Kennedy has a different tune by that name. However, the tune had been printed far earlier in Boston by G. Graupner in his Collection of Country Dances and Cotillions (c. 1808) as "Mother Goose", and it was entered as an untitled jig in County Leitrim fiddler and piper Stephen Grier's large c. 1883 music manuscript collection (Grier No. 122, for which see "Jig (53)").
Oscar Woods was a melodeon player from Benhall Green, near Saxmundham, Suffolk, who was first inspired to pick up the instrument as a farmboy when he heard an old farm worker, 'Tiger' Smith, play. When Woods was older he and Tiger became playing partners in local pubs, where he also learned from other melodeon players, in particular the Seamen family of Darsham.
