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Highlander’s Farewell
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I’ve been working on this arrangement for some time and have been wanting to record it, implementing “bagpipe” tuning, in this case AAA with the bass string dropped an octave below the middle A and the melody string dropped to G, a step below the middle. Played on my first teardrop dulcimer, of walnut, and my second dulcimer.
Tuning: AAg
Emmett Lundy’s fiddling: https://youtu.be/8DrFwBotddY?si=DEdjwoQFPSlzJV29
Having dug into my family lineage more in the last couple years, I do have some Scotch roots. My 9th-great grandfather, James Edward Bane (born in Alyth, Perth and Kinross, 1650-1731), along with his son, Alexander (my 8th, born in Inverness, Highland, 1688-1747), immigrated to Chester County, PA sometime around 1700. Alexander’s grandson, Jesse, and his son, George, moved from Chester to Hampshire County, Va, now WV, in the early 1800s, and a few generations later, my great, great-grandfather, William Heiskell Bane (1870-1945), my maternal grandmother’s grandfather on her mother’s side, was born in Burlington, Mineral County.
Tuning: AAg
Emmett Lundy’s fiddling: https://youtu.be/8DrFwBotddY?si=DEdjwoQFPSlzJV29
Having dug into my family lineage more in the last couple years, I do have some Scotch roots. My 9th-great grandfather, James Edward Bane (born in Alyth, Perth and Kinross, 1650-1731), along with his son, Alexander (my 8th, born in Inverness, Highland, 1688-1747), immigrated to Chester County, PA sometime around 1700. Alexander’s grandson, Jesse, and his son, George, moved from Chester to Hampshire County, Va, now WV, in the early 1800s, and a few generations later, my great, great-grandfather, William Heiskell Bane (1870-1945), my maternal grandmother’s grandfather on her mother’s side, was born in Burlington, Mineral County.
Well, I love this! Great tune, great playing and I'm a fan bagpipe tuning too.
Thanks, Butch!
Well, I love this! Great tune, great playing and I'm a fan bagpipe tuning too.
I like this a lot! I haven’t experimented much with other tunings, but I really like this sound! Thank you for sharing this!
Thanks! Anymore, I like playing in open or modal tunings, as much as I like using a capo for playing in Em or Am on the first fret, without having to change string gauges by using the same set for multiple tunings. I’ve come to like DGD for playing G-tunes, and tuning up a step to EAE for A tunes (the problem with using a capo on the fourth fret, starting with DAD, making it AEA is that I loose the G# note going up the melody string because of not having that fret). I also like DGC for G-modal tunes, and DAC for D-minor/modal tunes.
I really like this Noah. It definitely has an archaic Scottish feel to it.
Thank you! I was trying to get a bit of a lilt going the first time through, but I decided to speed it up a bit the second time. I like the “hum” I get out of my dulcimer with this tuning. AAA works pretty well for Hector the Hero, too.
Thanks for the link to Edwin Mundy.I suspect the melody is a distant cousin to the Canadian tune,"The growling old man and the growling old woman"....although in this case it's a fond farewell rather than an argument,good for them.
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I’ve heard the tune you mentioned before, but will have to revisit it. Emmett Lundy has been a nice source for a handful of tunes. Thanks!
I like this a lot! I haven’t experimented much with other tunings, but I really like this sound! Thank you for sharing this!
I really like this Noah. It definitely has an archaic Scottish feel to it.
Thanks for the link to Edwin Mundy.I suspect the melody is a distant cousin to the Canadian tune,"The growling old man and the growling old woman"....although in this case it's a fond farewell rather than an argument,good for them.
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