Annotation:Gilsaw

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 GILSAW. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Missouri. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. It is on Missouri fiddler Charlie Walden's list of '100 essential Missouri fiddle tunes'. Some similarities to "Muddy Road to Texas."  Source for notated version: Fred Stoneking [Silberberg]; Pete McMahan (Bluffton, Missouri) [Milliner & Koken].  Printed sources: Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 237. Silberberg (93 Fiddle Tunes I Didn't Learn at the Tractor Tavern), 2004; p. 15 (appears as "Gill Saw").  Recorded sources: Marimac 9059-CD, Lynn 'Chirps' Smith - "Midwestern Harvest" (1994). Missouri State Old Time Fiddlers Association 001, Pete McMahan - "Ozark Mountain Waltz."

|Tune properties and standard notation