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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Library of Congress 1010B2, Jilson Setters {Kentucky fiddler J.W. "Blind Bill" Day} (recorded 1934 for John Lomax in Ashland Ky).</font> | ''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Library of Congress 1010B2, Jilson Setters {Kentucky fiddler J.W. "Blind Bill" Day} (recorded 1934 for John Lomax in Ashland Ky).</font> | ||
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Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/h03.htm#Helansc]<br> | |||
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Revision as of 22:02, 16 October 2011
Tune properties and standard notation
HELL AND SCISSORS. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; Arkansas, Kentucky. A Major. ADae tuning. A 'hell' is a leather holster used by tailors to hold a pair of scissors. The tune is in the repertoire of fiddler Bruce Greene, who learned it from Day's 78 RPM recording. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954.
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Printed sources:
Recorded sources: Library of Congress 1010B2, Jilson Setters {Kentucky fiddler J.W. "Blind Bill" Day} (recorded 1934 for John Lomax in Ashland Ky).
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]