Annotation:Ce Pouflas
X:1 T:Ce Pouflas N:From the playing of fiddler Lawrence Older (Middle Grove, Saratoga County, N:northeast New York). N:Older learned most of his repertoire from his parents, part of an intergenerational N:legacy, although this tune was obtained from another regional fiddler of repute, N:Earl Eddy, who had learned it from a man from Quebec named 'Joe Baker'. "It should be N:pointed out that in the southern Adirondacks any Canadian is called a Frenchman, and N:almost every Canadian is called Joe Baker, whether his name be Bolduc or Thibedeau." N:Liner notes to Folk Legacy FSA-15, by Peter E. McElligott, Schenectady, New York. M:C| L:1/8 D:Folk Legacy Records FSA-15, Lawrence Older - "Adirondack Songs, Ballads and Fiddle Tunes" (1963). D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/ce-pouflas Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:D A2 de- fe-fd|cdef g3 A|A2de- fe-fd|1cdec d2d2:|2cdec d2|| |:fg|a2eg f2d2|A2([Ae]-[Af]g2) (ef|g2)eg f2d2|1cdec d2:|2cdec d2d2||
CE POUFLAS. American, Canadian (?); Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Ce Pouflas" is from the repertory of southern Adirondack fiddler and ballad singer Lawrence Older (1912-1982), of Middle Grove, a hamlet in the town of Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York. Older had a repertoire of songs, ballads and fiddle tunes, many handed down by generations of his family, and others learned from local sources and music friends. He learned "Ce Pouflas" from another regional fiddler, Earl Eddy of Galway, Saratoga County, New York. Eddy's chief gift the fiddle repertory is "Earl Eddy's Breakdown/Favorite", but according to Adirondack fiddler Vic Kibler (b. 1919-2013), Older may have given the tune that name having learned it from Eddy himself. Kibler never met Eddy, but remarked: "They say he knew a world of tunes."
There is no formal translation of "Ce Pouflas" ('this pouflas'), and the title's meaning is unknown.
