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'''GRANT LAMB'S BREAKDOWN'''. Canadian, Breakdown. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Grant Lamb (1915-)in 1952. | '''GRANT LAMB'S BREAKDOWN'''. AKA and see "Brid Harper's," "Denis Langtot's," "Dermot Byrne's Hornpipe." Canadian, Breakdown. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Manitoba farmer and fiddler Grant Lamb (1915-)in 1952. The tune has made an amazing transition through oral transmission into a number of genres. After being played by Canadian fiddler Dennis Langtot in a session in Ottawa in the mid-1980's it was picked up by Irish fiddler Brid Harper (with the thought it might have been French-Canadian in origin), and from there entered Irish tradition. | ||
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Revision as of 15:14, 21 August 2011
Tune properties and standard notation
GRANT LAMB'S BREAKDOWN. AKA and see "Brid Harper's," "Denis Langtot's," "Dermot Byrne's Hornpipe." Canadian, Breakdown. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Manitoba farmer and fiddler Grant Lamb (1915-)in 1952. The tune has made an amazing transition through oral transmission into a number of genres. After being played by Canadian fiddler Dennis Langtot in a session in Ottawa in the mid-1980's it was picked up by Irish fiddler Brid Harper (with the thought it might have been French-Canadian in origin), and from there entered Irish tradition.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 14, p. 15.
Recorded sources: Voyager VRLP 312-S, Grant Lamb - "Tunes from Home" (1974).