RoxbyFiddleTunes - Roxby Folk Club
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<strong>Roxby</strong> Fiddle Tunes<br />
Owen Lewis<br />
www.roxbyfolkclub.org.au
Dedicated to Emily, the one who keeps on playing!<br />
These tunes were mostly composed in airports, planes, back seats of cars in in my pocket size music<br />
book during 2010. Then I transcribed them in MuseScore, an open source notation program. As the<br />
chords have been put in on the run and without much expertise, guitarists may wish to revise them.<br />
The <strong>Roxby</strong> <strong>Folk</strong> <strong>Club</strong> has performed a number of them and played through many more, but there are<br />
some in the book that have never been played except by me.<br />
I would like to acknowledge teachers, friends and the international stars who have shaped my tastes.<br />
They include: Chris Duncan, Judy Turner, Matt Robertson, Catherine Fraser, Colin McLeod, Alasdair<br />
Fraser, Paul Cranford, Martin Hayes, Susan Conger, John Goodin to name a few, but miss many<br />
more. I also want to thank my <strong>Roxby</strong> <strong>Folk</strong> <strong>Club</strong> friends for trying out the tunes with me, my wife<br />
Mary for putting up with my obsession, and to the Creator for creativity and music itself.<br />
<strong>Roxby</strong> Fiddle Tunes © 2011 Owen Lewis<br />
owen_d_lewis@hotmail.com<br />
Proceeds from this book will go to the Disabled and Helpless Rehabilitation<br />
and Service Centre in Dharan, Sunsari, (eastern)<br />
Nepal. www.dhersec.com.np<br />
Owen Lewis is a general<br />
practitioner who lives in<br />
<strong>Roxby</strong> Downs, South Australia,.<br />
Apart from fiddling<br />
and writing tunes, goes on<br />
trips to India and Nepal to<br />
help with GP training.<br />
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Reels and faster 4 time pieces<br />
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Reels and faster 4 time pieces<br />
An underwear adorned rope between windows inside Em’s flat.<br />
It would be fun if Lauren did play the bodhran!<br />
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The road from <strong>Roxby</strong> Downs to the mine at Olympic Dam is a bit of a race track at change of shift.<br />
Coming down to Pharping from Dampus on the way to Kathmandu from the Terai. The road was<br />
windy but my pencil could still do its job on the page—just.<br />
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Reels and faster 4 time pieces<br />
The Wakefield Planes seem a bit barren from the main road, but not far away they have very reliable<br />
wheat harvests.<br />
Later I found that this has a lot in common with a contra tune that I must have heard along the<br />
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cf Domestic Agitation page 26<br />
In early December I was surprised to see the harvester out in the wheat already, on the road north of<br />
Balaclava.<br />
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Reels and faster 4 time pieces<br />
Andamooka is an opal mining town near <strong>Roxby</strong>. Our folk club often plays <strong>Roxby</strong> Reel and Mookie<br />
Reel in sequence, finishing with Adelaide Jig.<br />
There are still some market gardens, but a lot of it has become suburbia. We pass through it on<br />
the way north of Adelaide on our way to o <strong>Roxby</strong> Downs.<br />
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Reels and faster 4 time pieces<br />
But then I remembered the daily grind could also be for fresh coffee!<br />
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Reels and faster 4 time pieces<br />
In the arid sanctuary we watched from a<br />
hide, just after dark and saw bettongs and<br />
bilbies. Come to <strong>Roxby</strong> Downs to see<br />
them! www.aridrecovery.org.au<br />
Melbourne airport I think!<br />
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Reels and faster 4 time pieces<br />
Wilpena Pound is a beautiful sport in the Flinders Ranges in SA. It has a great tourist resort where<br />
we went for a doctor’s meeting , possibly something to do with medical education. There was guy<br />
with a guitar for a bit of a jam.<br />
Having written a number of tunes on the plane there was time for one more.<br />
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Reels and faster 4 time pieces<br />
Yatra means journey, so Dharani Yatra is the journey to Dharan, where we lived for 6 years in<br />
eastern Nepal<br />
At Mambray Creek south of Pt Augusta.<br />
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Reels and faster 4 time pieces<br />
Some weekend sailors delighting in their boats seemingly oblivious of the Cygnet folk festival.<br />
A boy collecting plastic bags for a living in the streets of Dharan in Nepal.<br />
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Marches and slower 4s<br />
This one won a prize at the annual tune competition of the Melbourne Scottish Fiddle <strong>Club</strong>.<br />
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Marches and slower 4s<br />
Near Melrose after the fantastic season.<br />
One of those high backed luxury ones, just right for doodling a tune.<br />
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Marches and slower 4s<br />
Probably served on a plane<br />
Grand daughter Lucia knows she is not ready for bed.<br />
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Marches and slower 4s<br />
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Marches and slower 4s<br />
The creek runs near the foot of Mt Remarkable and near the campsite of the Anglican Diocese of<br />
I can’t remember what the fruitless journey was about but the feeling persists in this<br />
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Sombre return to previous situation<br />
While waiting for lunch in the Southern Railway Hospital, Perampur, Chennai—a teaching trip for GP<br />
trainees.<br />
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Marches and slower 4s<br />
A very popular young engineer from the Philippines when she finished up in <strong>Roxby</strong> Downs and<br />
headed west.<br />
Starts simply enough!<br />
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Marches and slower 4s<br />
A town in the mid north of SA on the inland route from Adelaide to <strong>Roxby</strong> Downs<br />
Around the bend there may be a better place.<br />
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Marches and slower 4s<br />
Some of us still prefer analogue.<br />
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Marches and slower 4s<br />
I love Gm and like to play this one after Bare Colebatch hill<br />
The energetic and ever vigilant warden of a particular camp site regretted to inform us that our car was<br />
in the wrong place.<br />
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Jigs, slip jigs<br />
On the ferry going across to Bruny Island, Tasmania.<br />
My home town knows about jigs!<br />
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Jigs, slip jigs<br />
A children’s story book.<br />
...escaping my well intentioned advances.<br />
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Jigs, slip jigs<br />
The domestic terminal in Kathmandu airport can be very crowded when planes are running late.<br />
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Jigs, slip jigs<br />
My host warned me that the mango season was almost over and that mangoes were getting expensive.<br />
He spent at least 10 minutes choosing mangoes for our evening meal.<br />
A place on the northern Adelaide Plains. I have never been to the races.<br />
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Jigs, slip jigs<br />
On a trip top China<br />
Another South Australian country town<br />
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As in balm of Gilead, that heals the spirit.<br />
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Jigs, slip jigs<br />
Hannah our energetic first grandchild!<br />
Occasionally an air hostess’ smile is all it takes to sooth the frazzled passengers starting their<br />
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Jigs, slip jigs<br />
We drove back to Kathmandu with friends from Dharan and had a classic lunchtime stop.<br />
Cousin Pippa from UK had a holiday with us, but also with other family members competing for a<br />
day or two in her trip.<br />
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Jigs, slip jigs<br />
Idle time in Singapore Airport could be spent spending or doodling in one’s music book.<br />
In Birgunj a town on the Terai of Nepal, I stayed in a hotel with a garden that had mango trees. I<br />
could see mongeese capering down near the back wall, which they disappeared over as soon as I<br />
made any move towards them.<br />
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Waltzes, airs and other 3s<br />
Out the plane window.<br />
Pimba is about 70 km south of <strong>Roxby</strong> Downs where we live. It is on the main road from Adelaide to<br />
Alice Springs, so we go there to catch the bus, or stop at Spuds Roadhouse for an enormous steak.<br />
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Waltzes, airs and other 3s<br />
Gravelly voiced lady and 2 blokes on keyboard and bass entertained us with golden oldies in a bar in<br />
Singapore Airport.<br />
My friend’s dad had cancer of the larynx<br />
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Waltzes, airs and other 3s<br />
A pretty spot in the mid north of SA at the foot of Mt Remarkable. We had a family camp<br />
there, for Mary’s 60th in Dec 2010.<br />
I love the fields of yellow mustard in Nepal and the taste the crude mustard oil gives to the dhal bhat<br />
tarcurri.<br />
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Waltzes, airs and other 3s<br />
Sometimes on planes, it is the turbulence, sometimes ones seat and sometimes the perceived<br />
lethargy of the cabin crew, that delays the requisite cup of tea.<br />
Whose birthday was it?.<br />
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Waltzes, airs and other 3s<br />
I was trying to achieve rhythmic patterns reminiscent of Irish harper, Turlough O’Carolan.<br />
The Cooper Creek in flood is something to see!<br />
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Three months old beauty.<br />
Kingoonya is a railway siding town west of Pimba on the way to Tarcoola. We spent the evening at<br />
the pub on a cold day and I did a bit of fiddling.<br />
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Waltzes, airs and other 3s<br />
My Adventurer ll travel fiddle that I take on trips to Nepal and India. I bought it in the white, from Don Rickert, its inventor<br />
over the internet at www.adventurousmuse.com<br />
Coming down the pass from Dampus heading towards Kathmandu we caught sight of the mountains<br />
in fantastic panorama.<br />
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Waltzes, airs and other 3s<br />
I celebrated Easter 2010 on a visit to Nepal with friends in Dharan.<br />
Grandiose delusions while ensconced in the Ambassador Hotel in Singapore Airport on the way to<br />
Nepal with Mary in November 2010.<br />
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At the arid wild life reserve near Olympic Dam we were shown how to identify various tracks like<br />
lizards, crows and bilbies!<br />
Our daughter Emily lives behind the tigers, well just outside the wall of the Jawalakhel Zoo in<br />
Kathmandu. We were delighted to see her and to stay in her flat for a few days.<br />
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Waltzes, airs and other 3s<br />
I saw a bare hill near Colebatch on the drive between Launceston and Hobart.<br />
I paid a visit to Nepal, soon after the death of revered Prime Minister Koirala in 2009.<br />
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A Polka<br />
For Mary’s 60th birthday.<br />
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Strathspeys<br />
A wheat growing town in South Australia named after the battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War.<br />
A small kind of wallaby seen south of Hobart, docile, quiet, timid and ponderous.<br />
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Strathspeys<br />
The desert hop was in bloom along the roads in 2010, in swathes of ragged pink in the northern areas of<br />
South Australia<br />
The tree pubs once thrived and are now in sad competition<br />
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Reels and faster 4s Key Pg Jigs, slip jigs Key Pg<br />
Augusta reel A 3 Bruny Island Banter B 24<br />
<strong>Roxby</strong> Reel D 3 Adelaide Jig A 24<br />
Clothes Line D 4 Lucy's Dog A 25<br />
Lauren's Bodhran D 4 Gave me the Slip D 25<br />
Olympic Way D 5 Domestic Agitation G 26<br />
Pharping Descent D 5 Heavy limbs, light heart G 26<br />
Wakefield Plains D 6 Last Mango in Madras G 27<br />
Beetlemin Bm 6 Mallala Races G 27<br />
Domestic Bliss G 7 Sinsha Jig G 28<br />
Harvester G 7 Brinkworth Em 28<br />
Mookie Reel G 8 Balm C 29<br />
Salisbury Plains G 8 Hannah's Jig C 29<br />
The Daily Grind Em 9 The Hostess' Smile C 30<br />
Bettong Burrows C 10 Hetauda Hop Am 30<br />
Gate No. 18 C 10 Pippa's Perambulations F 31<br />
Wilpena C 11 Singapore Jig F 31<br />
The Final Hour Am 11 Mongoose Capers Gm 32<br />
Dharani Yatra F 12 Waltzes, airs and other 3s<br />
Wee Stop F 12 On Clouds at Sunset Em 33<br />
Limey Hornpipe Gm 13 Pimba Air F#m 33<br />
Bag Boy Cm 13 The Live Bar A 34<br />
Marches and slower 4s Good Friday Blessing D 34<br />
Bankok Waiting G 14 Melrose D 35<br />
Mary My Beloved D 14 Mustard Field D 35<br />
Wind in the Grass D 15 Until Tea Comes D 36<br />
Leather Chair G 15 Birthday Cake G 36<br />
Lemon Biscuit G 16 Carolian Three Time G 37<br />
Lucia is not sleepy G 16 Coopers Crossing G 37<br />
Sunday Sojourn G 17 Enchanting Evie G 38<br />
Turbulence Em 17 Kingoonya Fireside G 38<br />
Willochra Creek Em 18 Dampus Waltz C 39<br />
Dry Run Em 18 Resurrection Waltz C 40<br />
Resile Em 19 Ambassador's Waltz F 40<br />
Canteen C 19 Bilby Tracks F 41<br />
Felicia's Farewell C 20 Arriving at Jawalakhel F 41<br />
Peanut March C 20 Bare Colebatch Hill Gm 42<br />
Wilmington C 21 Koirala's Lament Gm 42<br />
Around the Bend Am 21 Polka<br />
Shoe Shine Am 22 60th Dinner A 43<br />
Digital Devide F 22 Strathspey<br />
Cumquat March Gm 23 Balaclava Em 44<br />
The Warden Gm 23 Oyster Cove Paddy Melon Em 44<br />
Desert Hop C 45<br />
Gladstone Pubs Dm 45<br />
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