Annotation:Logger's Breakdown
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LOGGER'S BREAKDOWN. AKA - "Logger Breakdown." AKA and see "Corn on the Cob." New England, Canadian; Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Phillips): AA'BB' (Miskoe & Paul).
Source for notated version: Vivian Williams (Seattle) [Phillips]; transplanted French-Canadian fiddler Omer Marcoux (Concord, N.H.) who actually learned the tune in a lumber-camp in Maine from a man from Waterville, Me. [Miskoe & Paul].
Printed sources: Miskoe & Paul (Fiddle Tunes of Omer Marcoux), 1994; p. 28. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 1, 1994; p. 146.
Recorded sources: Folkways 8826, Per's Four--"Jigs and Reels." RCA Victor LCP 1001, Ned Landry and his New Brunswick Lumberjacks - "Bowing the Strings with Ned Landry."
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
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