Three Forks of Cheat
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Three Forks of Cheat" is an American reel in A major.<br> It was collected from Burl Hammons on April 25, 1972, by Alan Jabbour.<br> Burl learned this tune from his uncle Peter Hammons.<br> The most southerly sources of the Cheat River system lie in northern Pocahontas<br> County, West Virginia from there they flow generally northward toward where the river joins<br> the Monongahela just across the Pennsylvania border.<br> The Battle of Cheat Mountain, also known as the Battle of Cheat Summit Fort, took place<br> from September 12 to 15, 1861, in Pocahontas County and Randolph County, Virginia (now<br> West Virginia) as part of the Western Virginia Campaign during the American Civil War.<br> It was the first battle of the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led troops into combat.<br> The battle had little effect on either the campaign or the war; both forces after the<br> battle were in positions similar to their positions before the battle.<br> This tune is not related to "The Cheat River".<br> "Three Forks of Cheat" is played with the fiddle tuned AEac#, a widespread tuning for<br> tunes in the key of A that feature C# as a principal note in the upper strain. <br> The banjo tab is from Ken Torke at www.TaterJoes.com.<br> The mandolin tab is adapted from the fiddle arrangement (from Burl Hammons) at<br> www.TaterJoes.com. I have simplified it to be played in standard tuning.<br>
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