Annotation:Reel du cassé-tête
X:1 T:Reel du cassé-tête T:Reel du vanneur N:From the playing of Joseph Allard (1899-1963, Quebec), N:under the pseudonym Maxime Toupin M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel D:http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f7/14823.mp3 D:Bluebird B-4902a (78 RPM), Maxime Toupin (1933) Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:Bb B2df bagf|gagf =edcA|BBdf bagf|gagf gab2:| BBdB fBdB|AAcA eAcA|BBdB fBdf|egfe dB B2| FBdB fBdB| AAcA eAcA|BBdB fBdf|egfe dB/B/ B2||
REEL DU CASSÉ-TÊTE (Puzzle Reel). AKA - "Reel du vanneur." French-Canadian, Reel (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Allard researcher Jean Duval identifies "Reel du cassé-tête" as a version of the Irish reel "Old Pigeon on the Gate"[1]. He also points out the sharped 4th ('e') in the first strain gives the piece a brief Lydian mode character[2]. Allard recorded the tune twice: first, in March, 1931 as "Reel du vanneur" for Victor [Victor 263802a], and again in 1933 for Victor's subsidiary label, Bluebird Records, under his pseudonym 'Maxime Toupin'. The title on the Bluebird release was "Reel du cassé-tête."
