Annotation:Reel du plombier

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REEL DU PLOMBIER (Plumber's Reel). AKA - "2ème partie du Set carré à Pitou Boudreault," "Reel de la bombarde. French-Canadian, Reel (cut time). G Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB' (LaMadeleine). "Reel du plombier" was recorded by Montreal fiddler Joseph Allard (1873-1947) in Montreal in October, 1928 (released by Victor Records in January of 1929). Another Montreal fiddler, J.O. LaMadeleine, recorded his version a few months later, for Starr Records, released in March, 1929. Both are fairly faithful versions of "Paddy on the Turnpike (1)"

(AKA "Bunch of Keys (1)"

) a long-popular reel by that name among English-speaking fiddlers in Britain, Ireland and North America, although it has also gathered several alternate titles and can be heard in numerous variants.

See also Isidore Soucy's very distanced version as "Gigue irlandaises (2)" (1925) and "Gigue des tricoteuses" (1927), Antonio Gauthier's "Reel des petits chiens" (1926), A.J. Boulay's "Reel de la bombarde," and Louis "Pitou" Boudreault's "2ème partie du Set carré à Pitou Boudreault."

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Jean Duval (La Musique de Joseph Allard 1875-1947), 2018; No. 17, p. 9. Olivier Demers (1000 airs du Québec et de l’Amérique francophone), 2020; p. 16 (as "2ème partie du Set carré à Pitou Boudreault).

Recorded sources : - Starr 15575b (78 RPM), J.O. LaMadeleine (March, 1929). Victor 263567a (78 RPM), Joseph Allard (Jan., 1929).

See also listing at :
Hear Joseph Allard's 1928 recording at the Virtual Gramophone [1]
Hear J.O. LaMadeleine's 1929 recording at the Virtual Gramophone [2]

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