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Frazier's Jig on mountain dulcimer
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This is a tune composed by Dan Hughie McEachern which I learned from Scottish style fiddler, Emily Parsons. It's one of a few tunes I'll be posting in the coming week that are in an interesting key of G mode. Like the others, this tune has no B notes in the melody, so is neither major (B natural) nor minor (B flat) - but sounds minor due to having the Myxolydian note of F natural. I play it on the dulcimer in the G tuning, D G D D, and using the 1.5 fret on the bass and melody (D) strings to get F natural. It ends up having a "very modal" sound to it. Recorded by Gregg Schneeman and posted New Year's Day 1/1/2026.
Such a neat tune wonderfully played!
This is one of three tunes I've posted on YouTube recently that use a somewhat unusual scale, G-A-C-D-E-F-G... Sort of Myxolydian, except there's no 'third' in the scale, making it neither major (B) nor minor (Bb), but ambiguous. The other two tunes are The Deepdale Jig and John McNaughton's Reel. The latter is in a medley with Hold the Reins, which uses a pure G major (Ionian) scale, so you can really hear the contrast between the two modes when the tunes switch. All these I learned from the playing of Scottish-style fiddler Emily Parsons, so I assume they're Scottish in origin; the one other video existing of Deepdale Jig credits it to Cape Breton, but that fits because their tunes draw heavily from Scots roots.
In D-G-D tuning the fretting of this scale is: middle string 0, 1, 3, melody string 0, 1, 1.5, 3
Hope you find these tunes intriguing!!