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Topic: Danny Boy |
Joe Drivdahl
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Montana, USA
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Posted 15 Jan 2008 7:23 pm |
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Does anyone have the old original Winnie Winston book that had the tab for Londonderry Air? If so, could you copy it and send it to me, or scan it an email it to me?
If you can help me out with this, please let me know at drivdahl@midrivers.com
Thanks,
Joe |
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Jim Eaton
From:
Santa Susana, Ca
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Posted 16 Jan 2008 8:19 am
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The Winnie Winston book is still available and now it comes with a C/D! Everyone should have a copy!
JE:-)> |
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John Roche
From:
England
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Joe Drivdahl
From:
Montana, USA
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Michael Weaver
From:
Buffalo Grove, IL
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Posted 17 Jan 2008 1:22 pm
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| I remember to this day offering to "tab" Londonderry Aire' for Winnie's book. We were sitting around exchanging ideas for the book. I asked him if he was going to put anything in for the C6th neck, but he could not come up with anything that did not involve copyright issues. So I had an idea...."How about Danny Boy, but call it Londonderry Aire, which(I was fairly sure)was in "public domain", thus avoiding any copyright issues. He loved the idea, and asked me if I would come up with an arrangement, and also tab it out for him, which I gladly did. I thought this might be of some interest on this topic. |
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Terry Wood
From:
Lebanon, MO
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Posted 17 Jan 2008 1:24 pm
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Amazon.com to order it. Yes, everyone needs a copy of that book.
Terry Wood |
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Joe Drivdahl
From:
Montana, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2008 3:24 pm
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One of the most wonderful aspects about this forum is the ability to electronically "rub shoulders" with some of the people who helped pioneer this instrument.
Michael, I bet neither you nor Winnie had any idea what a standard his book would become back when you were tabbing Danny Boy. Thats cool. Thanks for sharing that with us.
Joe |
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Jim Means
From:
Missouri, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2008 5:04 pm
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A little story about this book. When I got my first pedal steel, a Sho-Bud Maverick, we lived in a little town in SW Missouri. My wife was going to Springfield one day and I told her to get some kind of book that would at least tell me how to turn this thing. I didn't even know what the tuning was for a steel. She come carrying this book home and said, "I went all over Springfield and this is all I could find". The record is long gone but the theory is as up to date now as it was then. We still marvel today that the book she found that day is still known to some as the "Steelers Bible". I would sure hate to be without it.
Jim in Missouri
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