Annotation:Pied du Mouton (Le)
X:1 T:Pied du mouton, Le S:Oscar "Joe" Robichaud (New Brunswick), from a 1975 field recording S:by Frank Ferrel and Mark Wilson M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel N:ADad tuning (as usual with cross tuning, there's lots of droning) N:Play AAAB D:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CF_om5ami4 Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:D |:[D3A3]d[d3d3][df]|edcd eA e2| [D3A3] d[d3d3][df]|edce "0"d"0"A "0"d2:| J=f3f fagf|edcd eA e2| [Ae]-[A=f]-[Af]f fagf|1edce "0"d"0"A "0"d2:|2edce dABc|| d2 fd adf(d|ed)cd eABc|d2 fd adf(d|1ed)ce dABc:|2edce d2z2||
PIED DU MOUTON, LE (The Mutton Foot). French-Canadian, Reel. Canada, Québec. A Major. ADad or AEac# tuning (fiddle). The tune is sourced to Oscar "Joe" Robichaud of New Brunswick, recorded in the field in 1975 by Frank Ferrell and Mark Wilson (it is sometimes miss-attributed to Larry Riendeau of Berlin, N.H.). Pied du Mouton is the name of a type of mushroom, but was also the name of a popular and famous play, written and produced in 1806 by Alphonse Martainville along with actor César Ribié, which had to do with fairies and the fantastical[1]. It was much imitated through the 19th century.
The tune shifts tonality between major and modal. The tuning is described as AEac# on "Art of the Fiddle", but Devon Leger believes it is in ADad.
