Crossed tuned fiddle: Ken Kolodner, Devil in the Strawstack Sandy Boys

Cross-tuning makes a tune ring more, giving it more richness of sound. This also means you can play the same tune in a lower key without changing your fingering.
Here Ken plays Devil in the Strawstack and Sandy Boys at a concert in West Jefferson, NC August 2008. Ashe Civic Center.
Go to http://www.kenkolodner.com
for CDs, lessons, t-shirts, and lots of useful information about fiddling and hammered dulcimer playing. It's just a wealth of information!
Would you like to learn how to play these tunes (without cross-tuning?) Ken has a new Old-Time Fiddle Repertoire CD! Each track of the double CD comes with three versions of each tune: played slow, without ornamentation, medium with some ornaments, and fast with a little more improvisation. In addition, you get PDF files and notes on bowing techniques. Here's the tunes included:
Barlow Knife; Big Scioty; Booth Shot Lincoln; Charles Guiteau; Charleston Gals; Chinquapin Hunting; Devil in the Strawstack; Elk River Blues; Flop Eared Mule; Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss; Grey Cat on an Old Tennessee Farm; Hangman's; Hell Among the Stallions; Home with the Girls in the Morning; Journey to the Heartland; Julianne Johnson; Little Star; Liza Jane; Mike in the Wilderness; Needle Case; Puncheon Floor; Quince Dillon's High D; Ragtime Annie; Richmond; Road Dog; Roscoe; Sally in the Garden; Sandy Boys; Shady Grove; Shove that Pigs Foot A Little Bit Further in the Fire; Single Footin' Horse; Spotted Pony; Washingtons March; West Fork Gals; Whiskey before Breakfast
Click on his website and see the sidebar to the left under Old Time Fiddle Repertoire CD to order. (don't confuse it with his many hammered dulcimer arrangement teaching CD's with fiddle tunes.)
Enjoy!

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[rainharper62]

ken, i just love your playing-i keep coming back to this tune all the time

[hornbeampromise]

Most useful addition to your great book ( Old -Time Fiddle Style ) thanks to which I almost starting to sound like the real thing !! Many thanks

[rainharper62]

this was very educational/especially for a beginner fiddler,

nicely done!

thank you!!

[Lorichs]

Nice drive :-)