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Hear Jilson Setters at the Digital Library of Appalachia [http://www.aca-dla.org/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/Berea43&CISOPTR=1425&filename=1426.mp3]<br> | |||
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Revision as of 22:04, 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.
Source for notated version:
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]
Hear Jilson Setters at the Digital Library of Appalachia [2]