Annotation:Taste da Green
X:1 T:Taste da Green T:Aald Wife o Niddister, Da N:Transcribed from the playing of Peter Scollay, Burravoe, Shetland, N:recorded in the field in 1954 by Iain Maclean M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel D:https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/89467?l=en Z:Andrew Kuntz K:D |:AFAB de{g}f2|e-fdF E2E2|AFAB defg|fdec d2d2:| |:dfa2 fd{fg}f2|dfaf (e/f/e) e2| df a2 fdfa |fdec d2d2:|
X:1
T:Taste da Green
M:C
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Anderson & Georgeson – Da Mirrie Dancers (1970, p. 23)
K:D
B|A2 (AB) defd|(3fff (eF) E2 EF|AFAB defd|cAdF D2D:|
|:f2a2 fd a2|(fd)gf e2e2|dfaf df a2|(fd)ef d2d:|]
TASTE DA GREEN. AKA and see "Aald Wife O Niddister (Da)." Shetland, Shetland Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This reel celebrates the coming of spring, when sheep could again graze off the new grass of the meadows. A variant of the tune was also found on Yell, Shetland, though with the parts reversed. The tune was collected by folklorist, musician and choreographer Pat Shaw from the playing of fiddler Peter Scollay (1922-2000), Burravoe, Shetland, in a field recording from the early 1950's. The tune is described (on the Folktrax issue of Shaw's recordings) as "a triple time reel" (which, on listening, does not seem correct).
