Grandad's Favorite
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Grandad's Favorite" is an American reel in cut time and A Major. The parts are<br> played AABB. It is often played in AEae or GDgd fiddle tuning. The tune is crooked with<br> only six measures in the B part.<br> It comes from the family traditon of Braxton County, West Virginia, fiddler Ernie<br> Carpenter (1907-1997). He gave this introduction to the tune in October 1987,<br> at the Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music:<br> <br> My grandfather was a great old-time fiddler. ... These tunes that I'm playing<br> here was tunes that he played. They were his tunes that he played. And, course he<br> died before I started playing the fiddle, but my father was a good old-time<br> fiddler and he played the same tunes that my grandfather played and they've been<br> handed down from generation to generation for years. We're going to play a tune<br> now called "Grandad's Favor-ite".<br> <br> It was printed in Clare Milliner & Walt Koken's Milliner & Koken Collection of<br> American Fiddle Tunes (2011).<br> It was recorded by Ernie Carpenter on Old Time Fiddle Tunes from the Elk River<br> Country (2001. Recorded in 1986),<br> Ernie Carpenter: Recordings from the collection of the Brandywine Friends of<br> Old Time Music (2005) and Ernie Carpenter on Oh, Listen Today...The Roots of<br> American Old-Timey Fiddle Music Part 2 (2019. Various artists),<br> Dave Marshall, Andrea Cooper, Joel Bernstein on Pleasant Hill: old-time tunes for<br> fiddle, banjo and harmonica (2009).<br>
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