Annotation:Tustin's Favorite
X:1 T:Tustin’s Favorite M:6/8 L:1/8 R:March or Jig S:F. Horner, 1944 B:Bayard – Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife (1981, No. 624) K:D D/G/|B2B B2B|{c}BAB d3|cde AcA|ced Bz D/G/| B2B B2B|{c}BAB d3|cde AGF|G3 z2|| d|g2f edc|d3-d3|cBc AFA|dcd B2d| g2f edc|d3-d3|cBc Acd|G2z z2||
TUSTIN'S FAVORITE. AKA and see "Old Number One" (Pa.). American, March (6/8 time). USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle) AB. The tune was a martial band piece, drummed in "stop beat," and named for "Old John Tustin," a renowned fiddler, fifer, singer, and "character" in early twentieth century Greene County, Pennsylvania.
Old John Tustin...was once a well known fiddler, fifer, singer and "character" of western Greene County; he was describe to me as a tall, raw-boned, slouching, bearded man, notable for his dry humor, his love of making up hoaxes and playing tricks, and his "talking 'long'" (i.e. drawling).[1]
The key is 'G', although the 'c' notes are all played sharp -- Bayard says it was a practice common to many fifers.
- ↑ Samuel Bayard, Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife, 1981, No. 206, p. 162.