Dave Barkla interviewed by Rob Willis and Peter Ellis in the Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2247678
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Barkla, Dave, 1924-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1994 May 2
- 3 digital audio tapes (ca. 142 min.)
- Series:
- Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording.
Barkla talks mostly about the guitar, the accordion and old time dance music, as well as playing some music on the guitar and accordion. The conversation includes: how he started playing accordion with Harry McQueen; a steel guitar made in 1928 by Len Cowling; how Cowling made other guitars, including one from stirling silver, and also how he made piano rolls; how Cowling played the Slide Steel at dances; bars and making a bar out of a harvest part; tuning guitars, minor chords, 7th chords, damping behind the bar, tremolo, problems with strings; early amplifiers; tunes suited for the guitar; the typical programme for a dance and conditions for musicians; button accordion music.
Barkla speaks about Harry McQueen and the dances done at the time; the Maxina; the body of a guitar made out of a mortuary slab; wood turning and other general topics. Songs played on the guitar and acccordion include:God save the Queen, in waltz time; Pretty white lilies; Springtime in the Rockies; Hi ho the merrio, rakes of mallow; Grandfather's clock; Life on the ocean wave; Maxina; A Gordon for me; Humours of Donnybrook; Lily Laguna; Jervosonni; Labella fem; Scotch polka; Bluebell polka; and Cooper's hornpipe.
- Notes:
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- Dave Barkla plays the guitar and accordion.
- Recorded on May 2, 1994 at Castlemaine, Vic.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-598053906
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- Creation date:
- 1994
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