Annotation:Whistler's Waltz (1)

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WHISTLER'S WALTZ [1]. Old Time, Waltz. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. A modern composition (1966) attributed to fiddler Lloyd Wanzer, Weiser (Idaho). The tune was popularized, recalls Phil Williams [1], by a number of fiddlers in the 1970's at Weiser, including Wanzer, Harold Allen, Bill Yohey and Don Gish and others in the nineteen-seventies.

Source for notated version: Hollis Taylor [Phillips].

Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 325.

Recorded sources: American Heritage Records, Harold Allen - "Fiddling Around."

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]
See Phil William's standard notation transcription [3]

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