Walnut Gap
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Walnut Gap" is an American barn dance or schottische in cut time and G Major.<br> The parts are played AA'BB'.<br> The source for the tune is Owen Chapman (1919-2002), a fiddler from Canada,<br> Pike County, southeast Kentucky.<br> There is a Walnut Gap in North Carolina and has an elevation of 2,585 feet.<br> It is south of Ashville and near the hamlets of Piney Woods and Connestee Falls.<br> This tune reminds me of the music that I heard coming from the German club near my<br> childhood home.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher.<br> This tune was recorded by Owen "Snake" Chapman on Walnut Gap (1999).<br> It was printed in Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle<br> Tunes (2021) and<br> The Milliner - Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes (2011).<br>
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