Monthly Archives: March 2015


Key: G Form: Waltz MP3: (Played by David Kaynor) Download this MP3 If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) Sheet Music: Click image to enlarge. ABC: X: 1 T:Gentle Maiden #2, The C:Joe Buchanan's Scottish Tome - Page 629.2-630.1 I:629 2 Z:Carl Allison R:Waltz L:1/4 […]

Gentle Maiden


Key: A Form: Double Jig (Quickstep) MP3: (Played by Gina Fehr) Download this MP3 (If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions for different browsers). Sheet Music: Click image to enlarge. Sheet Music in PDF: steamboat-quickstep ABC: X: 1 T: Steamboat Quickstep C: R:Jig Q:180 K:A […]

Steamboat Quickstep


Key: A Form: Jig MP3: (played by David Kaynor) Download this MP3 If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) Sheet Music: Click image to enlarge. Sheet Music in PDF:Three October Days ABC: X: 1 T: Three October Days C: David Kaynor R: jig M: 6/8 […]

Three October Days



Key: Em Form: Polka ABC: If you know a source, please contribute ABC notation using the suggestion form. MP3: (played slowly in rehearsal by the Vermont Fiddle Orchestra) Download this MP3 (If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) Sheet Music: Click image to enlarge. Link […]

Dollar Polka*


Key: G Form: Reel MP3: (played by David Kaynor) Download this MP3 If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) MP3: (played slowly for learning by Sarah Hotchkiss and John Mowad) Download this MP3 If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) […]

Shove That Pig’s Foot a Little Further in the Fire


Key: A* Form:Reel MP3: Download this MP3 (If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”.)(Detailed instructions) Sheet Music: Click image to enlarge. ABC*: X:1 T:Speed the Plow K:A cd|"A"e4 c4 | "E"BABd "A"cBA2 | "D"fefg "(Bm)"afed | "E"c2<B2 B2 cd | "A"e4 c4 | "E"BABd "A"cBA2 | "D"fefg […]

Speed the Plough, (Old Time version)



Key: D Form: Jig MP3: (played slowly for learning) Download this MP3 (If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) Sheet Music*: Click image to enlarge. (The sheet music on the right is fromHarding’s Original Collection of Jigs and Reelspublished by Paull-Pioneer Music, 1928.) ABC: X: […]

Haste to the Wedding


Key: G Form: reel MP3: (Played slowly for learning by David Kaynor) Download this MP3 If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) MP3:(Played by Steve Rosen, the composer) Download this MP3 If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) Sheet Music: […]

Nail That Catfish to the Tree*


Key: D Form: Jig MP3: (Played slowly for learning by David Kaynor) Download this MP3 If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) Sheet Music: Click image to enlarge. ABC: X: 1 % T:The Green Cockade [1] M:6/8 L:1/8 Q:100 K:D D2FA2d|f2dA2F|GFGe2d|cBA GFE|D2FA2d| f2dA2F|GFGe2d|1 cBc d3:|2 […]

Green Cockade, the



Key: G Form: Reel MP3: (Played slowly for learning by David Kaynor) Download this MP3 If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) Sheet Music: Click image to enlarge.             ABC: X: 1 T: Possum up a Gum Stump [3] R: […]

Possum Up a Gum Stump


Key: G Form: Reel MP3: Download this MP3 (If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”.)(Detailed instructions) Sheet Music: Click image to enlarge. ABC: X: 1 T:Paddy on the Handcar B:CCDB version M:2/4 L:1/8 Q:1/8=200 K:G t=8 |: E/A/A/A/ AA/B/|c/B/A/B/ c/B/A/G/|E/G/G/G/ G G|E/G/G/G/ G G| E/A/A/A/ A A/B/|c/B/A/B/ […]

Paddy on the Handcar (also Paddy on the Turnpike)


Key: A Form: Waltz ABC: If you know a source, please contribute ABC notation using the suggestion form. MP3: (played by George Wilson?) Download this MP3 If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) Sheet Music: Click image to enlarge.           Link […]

Pearls and Diamonds



Key: A mix Form: Strathspey MP3: (played by George Wilson) Download this MP3 If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) Sheet Music: Click image to enlarge. ABC: X:939 T:Sarah MacArthur's C:anon. O:Scotland R:Strathspey M:4/4 L:1/8 Q:1/4=192 % god that's fast! K:AMix scordatura [A,2E2A2e2 % the […]

Sarah MacArthur’s Strathspey


Key: D Form: Reel MP3:played by David Kaynor and Susan Reid(?) Download this MP3 (If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) Sheet Music: Click image to enlarge. ABC: X: 1 T: Reel Bijoux M: C| L: 1/8 R: reel K:D ag|:"D"fafd Adcd |"D#dim"Bdef "Em"g2gf|"A7"egec Acec|"D"defg […]

Reel Bijou (Reel Bijoux)


Key: A dor Form: Strathspey MP3: (played by George Wilson) Download this MP3 (If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) Sheet Music: Click image to enlarge. ABC: X: 1 T: MacKinnon's Brook R: strathspey M: 4/4 L: 1/8 K: Ador B|"Am"AG E2 E>D|"C"ED C>DE<G|"Am"AB "C"c>de<a|"G"{ga}g>ed<B […]

McKinnon’s Brook



Key: G* Form: Waltz First notes in ABC: If you know a source, please contribute ABC notation using the suggestion form. MP3: (played by David Kaynor) Download this MP3 (If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) Sheet Music: Click image to enlarge.       […]

Hymn to George Augustus Wilson


Key: A mix Form: Reel MP3: (played by George Wilson) Download this MP3 If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) Sheet Music: Click image to enlarge. ABC: X: 1 T: Anne McQuarrie's R: reel M: 4/4 L: 1/8 K: Amaj ag|aA A/A/A =g2 fg|afec eAce|aA […]

Anne McQuarrie’s Reel


Key: A minor / C Form: Waltz MP3: (played by David Kaynor) Download this MP3 If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) Sheet Music: Click image to enlarge. ABC: X:1 T:Partings C:David A. Kaynor, November, 2014 R:Waltz M:3/4 L:1/8 K:A minor / C | cB […]

Partings



Key: Dm-Dorian Form: Slow Air MP3: (played by David Kaynor) Download this MP3 (If it plays, right-click on the page and “Save as”. (Detailed instructions) Sheet Music: Click image to enlarge. Sheet Music in PDF:A Hard Fall ABC: X:1 T:A Hard Fall C:David A. Kaynor, 2014 R:Air N:Intended as a […]

Hard Fall, A