Annotation:Reel (150)
X:1 T:Reel [150] M:C| L:1/8 N:An untitled reel 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 7 -16:24 on the tape) Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:C {ga}gf||ecgc ac(g/4a/4g)|eged cAGc|eaea abag|eaag (g/4a/4g/4e/4)df| ecgc ac(g/4a/4g)|eged .cz Gc|AGAB cded|cAGE [A,2D2]gf| ecgc ac(g/4a/4g/)|eged ccGc|AAe-a {ab}a2ag|eaag (g/4a/4g/4e/4)df| ecgc ac(g/4a/4g)|eged .cz Gc|AGAB cded|cAGE D2|| cB|AGEG cccB|cded ccGE|D^FAd dcd2| (e/4f/4e/) ed cAGc| AGEG c2cB|cded ccGc|AGAB cded|ccGE D2 cB| AGEG c2 cB|cded ccGc|AGAd d2cd|e(g/f/e)d cAGc| AGEG c2cB|cded ccGc|AGAB cded|cAGE D2 ||
REEL [150]. Irish? Reel (cut time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB or AABB. This untitled reel is heard at -16:24 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 during his collecting visit. 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.
