Old Time Fiddle styles

[nickp]

Info sent to me by BanjoRay...

For a beautiful lesson in Old Time fiddle styles try www.unctv.org/folkways/fiddle/index.html

This is a TV program in which David Holt interviews some great Old Time fiddlers - Red Wilson, Benton Flippen, Arvil Freeman and Josh Goforth - and gets an analysis of their styles. He also interviews fiddle maker Audrey Hash Ham (daughter of Albert Hash) on how she makes fiddles in her late father's style.

If you're an Old Time player with broadband, don't miss this.

Depending on your line speed the picture will be staccato (looks like it's made of a sequence of stills) but the sound shouldn't be.

Nick

[Ptarmigan]

Thanks for the link Nick.

That's such a good site I've given it it's very own thread.

North Carolina's Folk Ways: The Series

Cheers
Dick

[deleuran]

Yes this is a great link. Tobias told me about like a year and a half ago or something.
And if you have BROAD broadband, and have an interest in traditional crafts an other sides of the folk culture in N.C. I can recommend looking at Coastal Carvers, Face Jugs and Folk Pots, Fire & Forge, Homestead living, The Potters of Seagrove, Pottery Revival in Catawba Valley, Spinning, Dyeing and Weaving, Workers in Wood, etc. It's very interesting.
I love looking at people who keep old crafts alive, and know their way around it.
It is better television, than most of the junk they show every day. In Denmark anyway. I guess it's not better in Ireland or UK.

[Ptarmigan]

Yeah Jesper, TVs just as bad over here. You have to pick & choose very carefully.

I must say though, if I lived in the States I reckon it'd take me about half a day to end up throwing my TV in a Skip - because of all those f'in advert breaks those poor guys have to suffer!

I've noticed too that more & more of our programmes over here are being produced in little segments, sound bites if you like, and these are clearly being designed to fit neatly into the sections between the adverts on American TV. This drives me nuts & I always switch over or switch off when a show is made this way.

We have a couple of show which feature artists & crafts people up here in the North.

A nice feature of RTE, in the south, is that if you study the schedule you can catch some lovely old lazy programmes featuring a wide variety of crafts people, artists, musicians from the 50s, 60s & 70s, when they just seemed to take their time about things, so the shows reflect this attitude & come over as very relaxing.

Most are in B&W too which is kind of nice too, cause I personally just love those nostalgic glimpses into a bygone age. I enjoy watching all the old B&W British movies too, from the 40s & 50s, which show quiet streets with no cars & kids actually being able to play in the street & old shops selling things I remember - back when people weren't in so much of a hurry.

But I'm rambling now & these blethers have absolutely nothing to do with fiddle styles & I clearly need to go & eat & drink something, so I'm off ..............................