Annotation:Salut de L'hôtel Verret
X:1 T:Salut de L'hôtel Verret N:Pierre "Pit Jornoch" Verret (1863-1937), Lac St-Charles region M:6/8 L:1/8 D:Jean-Marie Verret –"Rend Hommage à Pit Jornoch 1863-1937" (1990) D:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfFrL4KeELs Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:Emin SE2F G2A|TB2(c BAB)|e3-edc|(TB3 BdB)| E2F G2A|TB3 BcB|A3 AGF|TB3 BAB| E2F G2A|TB2(c BAB)|e3-edc|TB3 .Bz2| .e.e.e .e.d.c|TB3 BcB|A3 AGF|E3 B2c-|| d2g f2e|d3 Bcd|f2e e2^d|e3- eze| fff fg^g|a2f e2d|ggg ga^a|b3 Bc^c| d2g f2e|d3 Bcd|f2e e2^d|e3- eze| fff fg^g|a2f e2d|[Bg]gg gfa|g3 .g2zS||
SALUT DE L'HÔTEL VERRET. AKA - "Hotel Verret." French-Canadian, Reel (cut time). E Minor ('A' Part) & G Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Salut de L'hôtel Verret" is from the Verret family of Lac-Saint-Charles, Quebec, four generations of remarkable musicians. The source for the tune is perhaps 'Pit Jornoch', a nickname for a fiddler and woodcutter named Pierre Verret (no relation), a friend from the next Parish of accordion player Jean-Baptiste Verret (1894-1955), the scion of the musical family. Jean-Marie Verret, who recorded an album of Pit Jornoch's tunes, is Jean-Baptiste's grandson. He recalled:
My father [fiddler Jules Verret] always considered him to be the greatest fiddler he had ever heard in his life. I was told that Pierre Verret learned his repertoire and style from Charlot Parent from Charlesbourg, which is a few kilometers southeast [of Lac St-Charles], and at the time just a village. [1]
"Le salut" is traditionally the third movement of the six-part quadrille in Québec[2].
