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Sheet Music for "Old Twenty-Two"Old Twenty-TwoOld 22ReelDiscography: Field Recorders Collective FRC 608, "Chirps Smith Home Recordings" (2015) Notes: From the playing of Lynn "Chirps" Smith (b.1952), from CharlesBlee's "Ball Room and Country Dance Music" (1926), Ft. Wayne, Ind.Transcription: Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz



OLD TWENTY-TWO. AKA - "Old 22." American, Reel (cut time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). Learned by the Volo Bogtrotters from Paul Tyler, who learned it from a tune book published in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1926 by Charles Blee, a carpenter by trade.


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Printed sources : - Charles Blee (Ball Room and Country Dance Music: Quadrilles, Schottisches, Watlzes, Polkas and the Danish, Rye Waltz, Varsouvienna, Oxford Minuet), Ft. Wayne, Ind., 1926.

Recorded sources : - Chirps Smith - "Chirps' Home Recordings, vol. 2" (2004)

See also listing at :
Hear the tune at Slippery Hill [1]



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