Crooked Stovepipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Crooked Stovepipe" is a Canadian and American reel or Polka known in New England, Michigan,<br> Missouri, Ontario and Prince Edward Island in G Major. The parts are played AA'B (Miller &<br> Perron/1983), AABB (Johnson), AA'BB' (Begin, Miller & Perron/1978, Miskoe & Paul, Perlman and<br> Phillips).<br> The tune is sometimes attributed to Nova Scotia fiddler Colin J. Boyd and it is thought that<br> it originated in Canada and spread to New England from Ottawa.<br> "Crooked Stovepipe" was recorded on 78 RPM in 1932 by Hugh "Hughie" A. MacDonald, sometimes<br> known as "The Polka King". MacDonald was born in Lanark, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia<br> and was one of the first fiddlers to record Scottish fiddle music. He died in 1976.<br> "Crooked Stovepipe" is also the name of a dance performed to the tune, popularized in New<br> Hampshire by the late callers Ralph Page and Duke Miller.<br> I found this on the Traditional Tune Archive but the B part was in the high octave on the<br> E string. Thanks to a suggestion from Don Wisniewski I transposed it down an octave and<br> changed the transition from the A to B part. He thought this might go well with "Who Hit<br> Nellie With the Stovepipe".<br> It was printed in Bégin's Fiddle Music in the Ottawa Valley (1985),<br> Jarman's Old Time Fiddlin' Tunes,<br> Johnson's The Kitchen Musician's No. 7: Michigan Tunes (1986-87),<br> Miller & Perron's 101 Polkas (1978),<br> Miller & Perron's New England Fiddlers Repertoire (1983),<br> Miskoe & Paul's Omer Marcoux (1994) (appears as "Crooking Stovepipe"),<br> Perlman's The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island (1996),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes (1995) and<br> Sannella's Balance and Swing.<br> It was recorded by Graham & Eleanor Townsend on Graham & Eleanor Townsend Live at Barre,<br> Vermont,<br> Per's Four on Jigs and Reels,<br> Ned Landry and his New Brunswick Lumberjacks on Bowing the Strings with Ned Landry and<br> Lester Bradley & Friends on Choose Your Partners!: Contra Dance & Square Dance Music of<br> New Hampshire (1999).<br>
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