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'''AULD RESTIN' CHAIR, DA'''. Shetland, Air. B Minor. Standard tuning. Composed by the late Shetland teacher, collector, composer and fiddler Tom Anderson, in memory of his grandfather, who first taught him the instrument. | '''AULD RESTIN' CHAIR, DA'''. Shetland, Slow Air (4/4 time). B Minor. Standard tuning. Composed by the late Shetland teacher, collector, composer and fiddler Tom Anderson, in memory of his grandfather, who first taught him the instrument. There is a photograph of Anderson's grandparents in Anderson & Swing's '''Haand Me Doon da Fiddle''', along with the note: | ||
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Recorded sources: Cottey Light Industries CLI-903, Dexter et al - "Over the Water" (1993). GN1, Joe Thoma - "Up the Track: Traditional Music from Kenmare." Green Linnet SIF-1051, Jackie Daly, Seamus & Manus McGuire - "Buttons and Bows" (1984). Topic Records, Tom Anderson & Aly Bain - "The Silver Bow" (1976). | ''Dis is a slow air o' me ain at I composed in 1968 whin I fan at Hamnavoe,'' | ||
''whaur me grandfather bedd, da brucks o' da auld resting chair dat he sat'' | |||
''upo whin he wis learnin me ta play da fiddle.'' | |||
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''Printed Source:'' Anderson & Swing ('''Haand Me Doon da Fiddle'''), 1979; p. 33. | |||
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''Recorded sources'': Cottey Light Industries CLI-903, Dexter et al - "Over the Water" (1993). GN1, Joe Thoma - "Up the Track: Traditional Music from Kenmare." Green Linnet SIF-1051, Jackie Daly, Seamus & Manus McGuire - "Buttons and Bows" (1984). Topic Records, Tom Anderson & Aly Bain - "The Silver Bow" (1976). |
Revision as of 03:16, 5 December 2013
AULD RESTIN' CHAIR, DA. Shetland, Slow Air (4/4 time). B Minor. Standard tuning. Composed by the late Shetland teacher, collector, composer and fiddler Tom Anderson, in memory of his grandfather, who first taught him the instrument. There is a photograph of Anderson's grandparents in Anderson & Swing's Haand Me Doon da Fiddle, along with the note:
Dis is a slow air o' me ain at I composed in 1968 whin I fan at Hamnavoe, whaur me grandfather bedd, da brucks o' da auld resting chair dat he sat upo whin he wis learnin me ta play da fiddle.
Printed Source: Anderson & Swing (Haand Me Doon da Fiddle), 1979; p. 33.
Recorded sources: Cottey Light Industries CLI-903, Dexter et al - "Over the Water" (1993). GN1, Joe Thoma - "Up the Track: Traditional Music from Kenmare." Green Linnet SIF-1051, Jackie Daly, Seamus & Manus McGuire - "Buttons and Bows" (1984). Topic Records, Tom Anderson & Aly Bain - "The Silver Bow" (1976).