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X:1 T:Black Hills Waltz S:Kenner Kartchner (1886-1970, Snowflake, Arizona) M:3/4 L:1/8 R:Waltz N:AEae tuning (fiddle) D:home recording, 1943 F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/black-hills-waltz Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:A [E2A2]|[A3A3][GA] [AA]B|c3B Ac|B2A2{B}AG|BA A2A[FA]| [E2A2][A2A2](3ABc|+slide+[e3e3]e fe|c2B2 {c}BA|B2c2e2| [A3a3]b af-|ed- cB- A2|+slide+[A3f3]a fe|[c3e3][Be] [Ae][Be]| [c3e3][Ae] [Be][ce]|[B2e2]A2[E2A2]|+slide+[A3A3][GA] [AA][AB]|[A4A4]:|| |:e2|{efg}a2 ec ea|{fg}fe cA Bc|AB cd ef|{ef}ed c2d2| {efg}a2 ec ea|{fg}fe c2e2|{fg}fe cA Bc|A4 :|]

BLACK HILLS WALTZ. American, Waltz (3/4 time). USA, Arizona. A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AABB (Shumway). Snowflake, Arizona, fiddler Kenner Kartchner (1886-1970) said, "it goes at least back to 1890." There was a "Black Hills Waltz" composed in 1877 by H.R. Marcyes, but it is a different melody than Kartchner's "Black Hills Waltz."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Kenner C. Kartchner (Arizona) [Shumway].

Printed sources : - Shumway (Frontier Fiddler), 1990; p. 265. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 11.

Recorded sources: -County 2730, Rafe Stefanini - "Glory on the Big String." Okehdodee OK75003, Kenner Karchner - "The New Beehive Songster vol. 1: Early Recordings of Pioneer Folk Music." Rounder CD 0359, Skip Gorman - "Lonesome Prairie Love" (1996).

See also listing at:
Hear Kenner Kartchner's 1943 home recording at Slippery Hill [1]

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