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