Da Auld Restin' Chair
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legacy / Shetland
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Da Auld Restin' Chair", also known as "The Resting Chair" is a Shetland slow air in 4/4 time and<br> B Minor. The parts are played AABC.<br> It was composed by the Shetland teacher, collector, composer and fiddler<br> Tom Anderson, in memory of his grandfather, who first taught him the instrument. There is a<br> photograph of Anderson's grandparents in Anderson & Swing's Haand Me Doon da Fiddle, along with<br> the note: <br> "Dis is a slow air o' me ain at I composed in 1968 whin I fan at Hamnavoe, whaur me grandfather<br> bedd, da brucks o' da auld resting chair dat he sat upo whin he wis learnin me ta play da fiddle."<br> It was printed in Anderson & Swing's Haand Me Doon da Fiddle (1979).<br> It was recorded by Buddy MacMaster on Glencoe Hall,<br> Dexter et al on Over the Water (1993),<br> Joe Thoma on Up the Track: Traditional Music from Kenmare,<br> Jackie Daly, Seamus & Manus McGuire on Buttons and Bows (1984) and<br> Tom Anderson & Aly Bain on The Silver Bow (1976).<br>
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