i tell yall whats sad is old time fiddle tunes and clawhammer banjo is what helped define appalatchain culture. Very few people appreciate how deep the roots ran that made such music. Now the old ways are dyin out and only a precious few people reconize it and stand proud while the rest of the world robs us of our culture blinds our children of their story in their own part of america.
Truman - Watching you play your fiddle in that sea of wild flowers is like looking back to a time long past when people make their our wonderful music. Please some more.
Truman!!! You are da man. Thanks for sharing this with us. Long Time to go with out hearing from you and a few other friends. I must get busy. Sammy Rich
***** Shared with Collaboration for the Preservation of Old Time Music. (the founder just passed away & I don't play...I'm a dedicated listener). I got comments from some musicians that they have loved your music for years. I asked them to please share it...since I don't play and just found it. GREAT sound. GREAT style...I love that you "just play". Thanks so much for sharing your talent.
I bought obscure childrens books from you almost 20 years ago. (You recommended us Lad With A Whistle - a fine book that no one know about but us!) Now that I've taken up fiddle, you cross my path again! Lovely fiddling!
One of the most enjoyable versions of the St. Anne's Reel I have had the pleasure to listen to. You definitely put your own style to the tune. Job very well done sir.
Hold on, just keep that fiddle going for a little while longer. I'll be over there just as soon a I can find the place and then we will have us a nice session of old time music. Keep posting my friend, great job!
thank you so much for sharing your music! you made me start playing the fiddle and I hope one day I'll come to your place and hear some great old time live!
Hey, I play outdoors too. Only because my wife won't let me play inside. lol Guess if I was this good she might let me in. Keep sawing Sir, you are awesome.
Love the fiddle! What a treasure! Thank you so much ginmill bill !!!!! I used to live in Idaho and always wanted to attend the Fiddlers Convention in Wieser. Never made it so now i can go here and pretend. Got subbed. mc
it looked like the music infected your legs and they were just taken over by it and couldnt help but to dance, I loved it! funny thing was, i was feeling the same way at the same point in the song. great work :)
Thanks so much! Hopefully I can post a video soon of what I've learned from you. I'm in Genesee,ID and I hope to maybe meet you one year at the Centralia Old-Time Music Campout.
I think that what you call an awesome way to hold the fiddle, is the only way that allows the performer to talk and sing simultaneously. I'm from South America but I became a passionate of Bluegrass Country Music. In my research I learned about the origins of the Bluegrass. I also discovered the adorable singer/fiddler, Mrs. Alison Krauss. I noticed that she never sings and plays the fiddle at the same time. That's because she holds the fiddle in the "correct" way!
I'm 5' 9" , and it is a full size fiddle. Close up, looks exactly like Ole Bull's Guarnerius. I catch my left thumb at the end of the keyboard, right around the nut so my thumb touches the G string on the fiddlehead side of the nut. Over the years I've worn a grove there, so that the close end of the peg box on the G side comes up to a knife edge, and the neck is somewhat thinner at the far end (just from playing, nothing artificial!), perhaps making it a little easier to grab.
This video used to have great quality, and many more views. It is one of my favorite videos, and made St Anne's Reel one of my always played songs. I'm not sure what is up with youtube ripping off the content, and reposting it?
Oh, this is a wonderful share, I really think you play this so good. I red the comment of jerald and I don't know what was common in playing, in the neck or at the brest, but I can understand the way you hold it, is much healthier at least! Roeleke
@Fusion2222 You can find all kinds of these great fiddle tunes at the Prairie Mountain Fiddlers Tunes resource page! Just do a search for it on google and you will find the link to their page..>ERIK
@Fusion2222 Try "The Fiddler's Fake Book", but like the man says, the best way to learn it is by listening to your grandpappy. I think TFFB is published by Oak Publications. Nice playing truprice!
Excellent. I would love to hear you play Vivaldi's "Summer", Movement III (Presto), from the "Four Seasons". I think an "old time" fiddler could play it with more 'power' than any classical violinist.
this was really good. you mention the new river? i did a weekend on the gauley once. i can never forget the feeling i had when i had to leave the river behind and go back home. i play the fiddle to take me back but you really nail that feeling. thank you
Thank you, Kai -- we lived in the upper New River in the early 70-s - 2nd house over the border in Waiteville, WA, then Blacksburg VA, and soaked up fiddle conventions all over that area - Pearisburg, Pulaski, Hillsville, Independence, Galax, Christiansburg, etc. etc., Beautiful country. Alas, I've not been able to film anything new in years. Tried last week, the gadget wouldn't work.
The thing is, most every fiddle tune can be said to sound irish, simply because everyone associates fiddle music with ireland, which actually doesn't have a monopoly on music played on fiddles, it's just that it was exported more aggresively than from other countries, partly because it was identified as a marketable commodity in what was once a rather impoverished country.
Awesome! I am learning fiddle and I was hoping you or someone would verify this is standard tuning? I'm having trouble matching the B part of the song up with what I play. Thanks!
Do you use A 3/4 size fiddle or are you just tall? The reason I ask is because I am 6'1" and can barely hold my 4/4 size violin on my chest with any stability. Even then It's uncomfortable for my hand. I'm classical but kind of want to get into some fiddling too. Anyway, Great playing!
deltafour1212 Yes, you don't have to squat to play, although I can, have also knelt. For a tough position, check out Dr. L. Subramaniam - a different kind of old time, but he can play!
My idea of perfect happiness: playing the fiddle, dancing in a field of flowers. Yay!
I return to view this every now and then, for inspiration and entertainment. Thanks!
i tell yall whats sad is old time fiddle tunes and clawhammer banjo is what helped define appalatchain culture. Very few people appreciate how deep the roots ran that made such music. Now the old ways are dyin out and only a precious few people reconize it and stand proud while the rest of the world robs us of our culture blinds our children of their story in their own part of america.
It is up to those that believe to keep it going strong even if it is by playing to one person at a time.......
I love it 👍🏆.
A man out standing in his field!
🤣🤣
Back from the future... but the times with you and the members of our local community have been some of the the best.
Truman - Watching you play your fiddle in that sea of wild flowers is like looking back to a time long past when people make their our wonderful music. Please some more.
Nice to see we still have a few "pioneers" left in this country, keeping up the old forgotten talents! Great stuff.
Truman!!!
You are da man. Thanks for sharing this with us. Long Time to go with out hearing from you and a few other friends. I must get busy.
Sammy Rich
Beautiful, beautiful. Fantastic. Suuuuper.
Alicja
Ahhh. Lovely music AND dancing.
Greetings from sweden.
wonderful music! Thank you
+MyMoppet52 THANK YOU! It's nice to know people like it...
*****
Shared with Collaboration for the Preservation of Old Time Music. (the founder just passed away & I don't play...I'm a dedicated listener). I got comments from some musicians that they have loved your music for years. I asked them to please share it...since I don't play and just found it. GREAT sound. GREAT style...I love that you "just play". Thanks so much for sharing your talent.
oh! man! it's good to hear and see you!thanks!
man what i wouldnt give to have him live next door
good job
thanks
Paul
thank you Truman! So beautiful.
I really enjoyed listening to this - thank you!
I bought obscure childrens books from you almost 20 years ago. (You recommended us Lad With A Whistle - a fine book that no one know about but us!) Now that I've taken up fiddle, you cross my path again! Lovely fiddling!
One of the most enjoyable versions of the St. Anne's Reel I have had the pleasure to listen to.
You definitely put your own style to the tune. Job very well done sir.
Thanks ginmillsinger for sending. It was very good. I like old time fiddle playing. I will be listening and watching more of your videos.
Darlene
Awesome! I love those kind of musicians! that play in their own way!
Truman your awsome!
I was able to play this song at Clifftop thanks to you.
i just got done playing this song! haha the way he holds the fiddle is pretty awesome i gotta say!
Hold on, just keep that fiddle going for a little while longer.
I'll be over there just as soon a I can find the place and then we will have us a nice session of old time music.
Keep posting my friend, great job!
this is the best fiddle video on youtube. i love it.
i love it. your awesome.
true to the tune and very nice thank you
You are truly an artist, this is some of the best mountain music I've ever heard.
thank you so much for sharing your music! you made me start playing the fiddle and I hope one day I'll come to your place and hear some great old time live!
Sweet music AND dancing :)
Greetings from Sweden.
Gave this five stars ! EXCELLENT !
thanks! Looking forward to seeing more when you get them posted. It's great to have such a variety of fiddle clips available.
It was a pleasure to meet you at KMUZ today. (I'm the guy with the long blond hair.)
You play a lively tune with good intonation, and it's a tune that I love! 5*
Hey, I play outdoors too.
Only because my wife won't let me play inside. lol Guess if I was this good she might let me in.
Keep sawing Sir, you are awesome.
Wow! Great stuff!
Bravo! What a treat.
Love the fiddle! What a treasure! Thank you so much ginmill bill !!!!! I used to live in Idaho and always wanted to attend the Fiddlers Convention in Wieser. Never made it so now i can go here and pretend. Got subbed.
mc
beautiful
Great fiddling 5***** Thanks ginmillsinger for the share.......Colin.
Amazing!
it looked like the music infected your legs and they were just taken over by it and couldnt help but to dance, I loved it! funny thing was, i was feeling the same way at the same point in the song. great work :)
+ I might be getting it right then... fiddle and flat-foot dancing always went together back in the New River Valley... Thanks-
Fantastic.Thank you ginmillsinger for sharing.
David
Very Nice!!!!!!!
Thanks so much! Hopefully I can post a video soon of what I've learned from you. I'm in Genesee,ID and I hope to maybe meet you one year at the Centralia Old-Time Music Campout.
Boy if at dont put a smile on your face you aint breathin. Goooooood night!!!! DANCE PAPPY DANCE!!!!!!!!!
Great performance!
You are a national treasure.
great! really captures the irish spirit :D
reminds me far more of english folk sessions ive seen than irish ones if im honest...
Nice work, Truman. You harken back to an earlier time.
Lovely!
Great, loved it sir!!
I think that what you call an awesome way to hold the fiddle, is the only way that allows the performer to talk and sing simultaneously. I'm from South America but I became a passionate of Bluegrass Country Music. In my research I learned about the origins of the Bluegrass. I also discovered the adorable singer/fiddler, Mrs. Alison Krauss. I noticed that she never sings and plays the fiddle at the same time. That's because she holds the fiddle in the "correct" way!
Awesome!
I'm 5' 9" , and it is a full size fiddle. Close up, looks exactly like Ole Bull's Guarnerius. I catch my left thumb at the end of the keyboard, right around the nut so my thumb touches the G string on the fiddlehead side of the nut. Over the years I've worn a grove there, so that the close end of the peg box on the G side comes up to a knife edge, and the neck is somewhat thinner at the far end (just from playing, nothing artificial!), perhaps making it a little easier to grab.
That was amazing. 5 stars
you have a very unique sound. great fiddling. I learned from books and i sound so crappy. Got to get with other fiddlers.
thanks ginmillsinger, great stuff 5****..Mel
This is awesome*****
Thank you ginmillsinger for the send.
This video used to have great quality, and many more views. It is one of my favorite videos, and made St Anne's Reel one of my always played songs. I'm not sure what is up with youtube ripping off the content, and reposting it?
wow, I love this :)
St Anne's Reel, like The Girl I Left Behind, is a tune all the traditions claim.
Cool. Awsome. Really really. He know how to turkey turkey stomp.
Great!
stick with it. its a great instrument. i've been playing since 4th grade. im now going into 10th. its quite and inspiring instrument.
Is there any video tutorial of how to hold/play the fiddle this way (on the chest)? I can't find any.
That's how the real old-timers did it!
Oh, this is a wonderful share, I really think you play this so good. I red the comment of jerald and I don't know what was common in playing, in the neck or at the brest, but I can understand the way you hold it, is much healthier at least!
Roeleke
@Fusion2222 You can find all kinds of these great fiddle tunes at the Prairie Mountain Fiddlers Tunes resource page! Just do a search for it on google and you will find the link to their page..>ERIK
@Fusion2222 Try "The Fiddler's Fake Book", but like the man says, the best way to learn it is by listening to your grandpappy. I think TFFB is published by Oak Publications. Nice playing truprice!
merci
JY
i keep tellin my my instructor i can play like that but he wont let me. I will show him this video for sure
I can't play fiddle pressing on my chest, up under my chin ? Yes..... good playing fiddle man
Excellent. I would love to hear you play Vivaldi's "Summer", Movement III (Presto), from the "Four Seasons". I think an "old time" fiddler could play it with more 'power' than any classical violinist.
this was really good. you mention the new river? i did a weekend on the gauley once. i can never forget the feeling i had when i had to leave the river behind and go back home. i play the fiddle to take me back but you really nail that feeling. thank you
Thank you, Kai -- we lived in the upper New River in the early 70-s - 2nd house over the border in Waiteville, WA, then Blacksburg VA, and soaked up fiddle conventions all over that area - Pearisburg, Pulaski, Hillsville, Independence, Galax, Christiansburg, etc. etc., Beautiful country.
Alas, I've not been able to film anything new in years. Tried last week, the gadget wouldn't work.
The thing is, most every fiddle tune can be said to sound irish, simply because everyone associates fiddle music with ireland, which actually doesn't have a monopoly on music played on fiddles, it's just that it was exported more aggresively than from other countries, partly because it was identified as a marketable commodity in what was once a rather impoverished country.
mann this song is amazing =DD
great job friend
im from brazil and can you help me where can i found this kind of song?im playing fiddle too
tankss
Love it! Can you tell us where you are from?
you made my wife start dancing in the kitchen!
I live just down the road in Eugene, I was wondering if you give lessons and if so how much you charge?
@edwar101 Doesnt really make much diffference if your playing in first position i believe.
Awesome! I am learning fiddle and I was hoping you or someone would verify this is standard tuning? I'm having trouble matching the B part of the song up with what I play. Thanks!
Very nice! I uploaded my own version of this just now, but it's not "authentic" sounding like this one. You can tell I learned it from sheet music. :D
Hahahahaha I know, and it rules!!!
Mrs McLeod's is like that too. Though in Scotland she is probably called Mrs MacLeod and in America she probably perfers to be called Ms McLeod.
great rendition! The elbow grip makes me think he's a Canuckistani...
Hey great fiddling! I enjoyed your web page too. Are those Lazuli Buntings singing while you are playing?
I've been searching all over for "old man old woman" can you help me out?
You're out standing in your field
Do you use A 3/4 size fiddle or are you just tall? The reason I ask is because I am 6'1" and can barely hold my 4/4 size violin on my chest with any stability. Even then It's uncomfortable for my hand. I'm classical but kind of want to get into some fiddling too. Anyway, Great playing!
Wait, why do you hold the fiddle at the chest and not the chin?
nockout thank you
They named an elementary school in Texas after this guy.
Jest shows to go you that posture don't mean a thing.
Just goes to show you, proper bow technique and posture don't mean squat
deltafour1212 Yes, you don't have to squat to play, although I can, have also knelt. For a tough position, check out Dr. L. Subramaniam - a different kind of old time, but he can play!
The fiddling is great, but whoever is operating the camera needs to stop their own type of fiddlin'! All that clicking gets annoying.
YOU'RE A DUDE!