Annotation:Reel (149)
X:1 T:Untitled T:Reel [149] M:C| L:1/8 N:A variant of "Jacky Tar"? N:From an August 24, 1966, field recording of the playing of Fidel N:Martin (1891-1976) of Berlin N.H., originally from Rogersville, NB, recorded N:by folklorist Art Rosenbaum. Martin, a WWI veteran, had a repertory that N:consisted of Acadian, Irish, American and French-Canadian tunes. D:https://bmac.libs.uga.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/331506 F:UGA Brown Media Archives: identifier artrosen_0056 (Track 6 -17:39 on the tape) Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:F (3cde|fefg ffcf|dBfB dfBd|ggga gecd|ecgc ecde| fefg ffcf|dB[Bf]B ddfB |eg{fg}fd .czfd|c(A/c/A)G F2de| fffg fdcf|dBfB (d/e/B)fB|ggga gecd|ecgc Gcde| fefg ffcf|dBfB Bffd|egfd .czfd|cAGA F2|| AB|cFAF cFAc|ffcA F2GA|B_EGB EEGB|cAGc AFFA| cFAc FFAc|dAcA Fcde|fgfdc2fd |cA (B/A/G) AFF2| cFAc FFAc|ffcA F2FG|B_EGB EEGB|{cd}cAGc AFFA| cFAc FFAc|dAcA Fcde|fgfd ccfd|cAGA F2||
REEL [149]. French-Canadian?, Reel (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. "Reel [149]" is an untitled tune at -19:04 of a field recording of the playing of Fidel Martin, of Berlin, New Hampshire, recorded in August, 1966, by folklorist Art Rosenbaum, who also recorded the Riendeau Family of the same city. The field recordings were deposited in the University of Georgia's Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection [1]. Mr. Martin was born in Rogersville, Northumberland County, New Brunswick, in 1891, and served in World War I and was a charter member of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter. He was founder of the White Mt. Beagle Club, and prior to his retirement in the mid-1950's he had been employed as a truck driver for the Berlin Public Works Dept. His varied fiddling repertory consisted of tunes acquired from Acadian, American, Irish and French-Canadian sources. However, Martin accompanied his solo fiddling on the field recordings with a steady and practiced podorhythmie (foot-tapping), characteristic of Québécois and Acadian fiddling, strongly indicating he acquired his basic fiddling skills in New Brunswick. Martin died in 1976 and is buried in Colebrook, New Hampshire, survived by numerous relations throughout New Brunswick and other parts of Canada, and New Hampshire, including four sons, three daughters and 22 grandchildren.
