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'''REEL DE GASPÉ [3].'''  AKA and see "[[Reel aux cheveux blancs]]," "[[Reel du tricot]]."  French-Canadian, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Allard researcher Jean Duval <ref> Jean Duval, "La Musique de Joseph Allard 1873-1947''', 2018, p. 69 [https://leviolondejos.wiki/images/e/e6/La_musique_de_Joseph_Allard_par_Jean_Duval.pdf].</ref> finds Allards reel to be a version of "[[Queen of the West]]" AKA "[[Sumner's Hornpipe]]," both printed in Boston in 1883 in '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection'''.  According to Duval, there are three Allard recordings of the tune, all with different names.  He originally recorded it in 1929 as "[[Reel aux cheveux blancs]]" (White-haired Reel), re-issued in 1936 by Victor on their Bluebird label as "Reel de Gaspé" (credited to the Allard pseudonym 'Maxime Toupin').  He re-recorded it in 1942 as "[[Reel du tricot]]."  Duval also finds a cognate version in Montreal fiddler Isidore Soucy's "[[Reel des Marins]]."  
'''REEL DE GASPÉ [3].'''  AKA and see "[[Reel aux cheveux blancs]]," "[[Reel du fricot]]."  French-Canadian, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Allard researcher Jean Duval <ref> Jean Duval, "La Musique de Joseph Allard 1873-1947''', 2018, p. 69 [https://leviolondejos.wiki/images/e/e6/La_musique_de_Joseph_Allard_par_Jean_Duval.pdf].</ref> finds Allards reel to be a version of "[[Queen of the West]]" AKA "[[Sumner's Hornpipe]]," both printed in Boston in 1883 in '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection'''.  According to Duval, there are three Allard recordings of the tune, all with different names.  He originally recorded it in 1929 as "[[Reel aux cheveux blancs]]" (White-haired Reel), re-issued in 1936 by Victor on their Bluebird label as "Reel de Gaspé" (credited to the Allard pseudonym 'Maxime Toupin').  He re-recorded it in 1942 as "[[Reel du fricot]]."  Duval also finds a cognate version in Montreal fiddler Isidore Soucy's "[[Reel des Marins]]."  
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REEL DE GASPÉ [3]. AKA and see "Reel aux cheveux blancs," "Reel du fricot." French-Canadian, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Allard researcher Jean Duval [1] finds Allards reel to be a version of "Queen of the West" AKA "Sumner's Hornpipe," both printed in Boston in 1883 in Ryan's Mammoth Collection. According to Duval, there are three Allard recordings of the tune, all with different names. He originally recorded it in 1929 as "Reel aux cheveux blancs" (White-haired Reel), re-issued in 1936 by Victor on their Bluebird label as "Reel de Gaspé" (credited to the Allard pseudonym 'Maxime Toupin'). He re-recorded it in 1942 as "Reel du fricot." Duval also finds a cognate version in Montreal fiddler Isidore Soucy's "Reel des Marins."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Cuillerier (Joseph Allard: cinquante airs traditionneles pour violon), 1992; p. 15. Jean Duval (Le Musique de Joseph Allard 1873-1947), 2018; No. 25, p. 13.

Recorded sources: - Bluebird B-4935, Maxime Toupin (1936).

See also listing at:
Hear Allard's 1936 recording at the Virtual Gramophone [1]



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  1. Jean Duval, "La Musique de Joseph Allard 1873-1947, 2018, p. 69 [2].