Tom Walsh interviewed by Alan Musgrove in the Alan Musgrove collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3765944
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Walsh, Thomas P. (Thomas Patrick), 1927- 2018, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1997 Jun. 22
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 90 min.)
- Series:
- Alan Musgrove collection.
- Summary:
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Tom Walsh talks about his mother playing tunes on piano and singing popular old time songs; learning tunes at home before joining a band; the family history; bow strokes for fiddle; techniques and style of play; Jack Hedney; being taught how to tune by his mother; Peter Ellis; players and instruments in band; dances done at that time, Alberts, Lancers and the Fitzroy's; song tunes; Les Burn; playing at dances; how dances were played; the demise of dances and the reasons; people leaving for Melbourne to work; payment received for playing; his violin costing 25 Pounds; Len Deal; being interviewed several times and being recorded him at his home; his sisters, step dancing; Celtic/Irish music being played; same tunes are still being played, names have varied; his grandfathers history; mother's history and introduction of music to the family; familiar tunes they played in the house; Mary (his wife) talks on her background and youth. Walsh speaks about taking fiddle lessons from the age of 8 until he was 16; sisters playing classical music; speaks about the tunes being passed down from parents; recognizing tunes: "Play tunes as if you are singing it, that's how we were taught"; Button accordions.
- Partial contents:
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- Tunes: Black Hawk
- Passing shadows
- King Pippins polka
- King Pippins polka (with Alan Musgrove accompany on guitar)
- Only a leaf
- Come love, meet me by the shadow of the Pines
- Only a leaf (accompanied by Alan Musgrove) - Varsoviennas
- Varsovienna (accompanied by Alan Musgrove)
- The old school master
- Rosin the bow
- Lannigan's ball
- St.Patrick's Day
- Father O'Flynn
- Maggie the cows are in the corn, Old Jeff (fragment)
- Old Jeff (repeat)
- Early in the morning
- I'll tell me Ma, My mother said that I should not play with the Gypsies in the wood
- Maggie the cows are in the corn (accompanied by Alan Musgrove)
- Three hop polka, Clemantine
- Mountains of Morne
- Little brown jug
- Over the waves
- The doors swing in
- The doors swing in and the doors swing out (pub song)
- Uncle Ned's waltz
- Starry night (played on his fiddle)
- Spanish waltz
- Why did they sell Killarny
- Medley, Machushla (2nd tune)
- tunes played (Alan & Tom)
- jam
- Barn dance tunes
- Little Angeline
- Over the garden wall
- Over the garden wall (repeat)
- Keel row
- Highland schottische, Comin' through the rye, Roamin' in the gloaming, Loch Lommand
- Me and my true love
- Me and my true love, So early in the morning. Jamming, Tom on squeeze box, with Alan on fiddle. Tunes: After the Ball again
- Soldier's joy (Tom on squeeze box)
- Soldier's joy (Tom on fiddle)
- Step it out Mary
- Step it out Mary (repeat)
- Black thorn stick (Alan).
- Notes:
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- Recorded June 22, 1997 at Trentham, Victoria.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (4 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Musicians
- Other authors/contributors:
- Musgrove, Alan, 1957-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Alan Musgrove collection.
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1997
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