Annotation:Reel du gaucher

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REEL DU GAUCHER (Left-Hander’s Reel). French-Canadian, Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.

Source for notated version: fiddler Henri Landry (1923-2001, Pontbriand region, Québec), who learned the reel from an elderly fiddler named Thomas «Quêteux» Pomerleau, “kindly, poor and eccentric”—and left-handed! [Hart & Sandell].

Printed sources: Hart & Sandell (Dance ce Soir), 2001; No. 56, p. 91.

Recorded sources: Philo Records 2002, “Henri Landry” (1973). Lisa Ornstein & Denis Pépin – “Danseries de la Bell Province” (1984). Daniel Roy – “Au tour du flageolet” (1996).

See also listing at:
See Pascal Gemme's blog entry on "Reel du gaucher" [1]
See Lisa Ornstein's standard notation transcription [2]
See Henri Landry's biography at Centre Mnemo [3]