Annotation:Old Countryman's Reel

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OLD COUNTRYMAN'S REEL, THE. AKA - "Countryman's Reel." AKA and see "Flowers of Cahirciveen." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; Nebraska, Missouri. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Old Countryman's Reel" is one of '100 essential Missouri tunes' listed by Missouri fiddler Charlie Walden. Boston publisher Elias Howe printed contra-dance directions along with the tune in his c. 1867 1000 Jigs and Reels. The "Old Countryman" title is Howe's, however, in a later Howe company publication, Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) the same tune is given as "Flowers of Cahirciveen." Speculatively, the tune's provenance is Irish, alluded to in the "old countryman" title (i.e. the tune's source was an immigrant), and that an Irish title was either discovered or manufactured at a later date. In any case, the tune was adopted by Midwestern fiddlers undoubtedly from one of the Howe publications.

Source for notated version: Bob Walters (Burt County, Nebraska) and Cyril Stinnett (Oregon, Missouri) [Christeson].

Printed sources: R.P. Christeson (Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 2), 1984; p. 24. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 90.

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