But that's my tune!

[shadesofmauve]

I rarely post twice in one day, but I just have to show this off.

I was looking to see if Anthea had a webpage up at the moment, and found a mention of Fiddlehead's latest recording on thesession.org. Now, Fiddlehead's latest recording's title track is a tune I wrote, so of course I was interested. It turns out that someone from Texas transcribed my tune from Anthea's CD and uploaded it to thesession.org, and 15 people have added it to their virtual tunebooks!

The tune appear more or less as I wrote it, thought there are some notes in there I hold rather than breaking up, and some things that are definatley bow-triples that aren't marked. What's more amusing for me, naturally is the small comments section.

"This was written by someone up in olympia, Washington state in the us. Washington state lays on the Juan de Fuca plate, hence the name."

I'm a someone. It's there in print.

And as you all of course know, it's named for the strait of Juan de Fuca, not the geological feature. That would be why it's called "Over the Strait of Juan de Fuca", or more commonly around Oly "Over the Straits".

I am officially a part of the oral tradition.

Only it's digital.

Go figure.

Comments

[hawkdancer.livejournal.com]

Hey, accurate or not, that's pretty cool!

[shadesofmauve]

Oh, accuracy doesn't matter - variation is an expected part of the process. I did egotistically wish that they'd mentioned my name (I'm credited on the CD, after all), and I ached for the slighted body of water. You'd think EVERYONE knew about the Strait of Juan de Fuca!

[madalchemist.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, you are almost but not quite nearly well known, anonymously, in a relatively small circle of people.

But that aside, hurrah for you! :)

[fenmere.livejournal.com]

Rad

[gan-ainm-o.livejournal.com]

Nice tune!

Weird thing, I was searching for Bminor reels on thesession.org a while back and noticed this one 'cause it was a nice tune and local (I'm in Portland) and all too, then tonight I'm bored after work and randomly trawling LJ, and I recognized your name...well anyhow it's a small world. Mind you, I haven't actually learned the tune yet.

I've added you to my friends list. Hope you don't mind. I'm relatively new to this thing and I've no idea what the proper etiquette for adding total strangers is.

[shadesofmauve]

Thanks!

Portland's a great city.

I have no idea wether proper LJ etiquette exists, but I certainly don't mind being friended. Presumably there are people out there who would throw a raging angst fit, but I think it's just because that's what they do to relax on a friday night.