Ashokan Farewell

Turtle · Post by **Turtle** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:31 pm

hello all, I tried using the search to find this, but only came up with two
dead ends. I heard Ashokan Farewell played on the fiddle last night, and
was wondering if anyone had made a sound clip of this tune on the whistle.
It's a beautiful tune, and one I would really like to learn. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Turtle

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:33 pm

Turtle wrote:hello all, I tried using the search to find this, but only came up with two
dead ends. I heard Ashokan Farewell played on the fiddle last night, and
was wondering if anyone had made a sound clip of this tune on the whistle.
It's a beautiful tune, and one I would really like to learn. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Turtle

You think it's beautiful now, but wait until you've heard it about 37 trillion times, including the 4 times you'll have heard it played by competent fiddlers.

Tyghress · Post by **Tyghress** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:36 pm

The tune is by Jay Ungar, and if you poke around on Amazon or someother site you'll find a recording.

Get an A whistle for the easiest playing. It can be done on a D, but its not pretty.

Tyg

clark · Post by **clark** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:48 pm

Yes it is a beauty. Out here in the middle of the Pacific it's not heard too much so I still enjoy hearing/playing it. There are a few tunes that take a long time to go stale and, for me, this is one of them (although hearing it over an over and over in the Civil War series was a bit much; but I've gotten over that).

The fiddlers usually play this in D which makes it go below whistle/flute range so you've got to do all this octave switching - not fun - not pretty. So as Tyghress says use an A whistle to play along with the fiddle. You play it on an A whistle as though it were in G and the only messy thing to worry about is one "F natural" fingering.

If you PM me I'll email you the dots in a Finale file.

Clark

BrassBlower · Post by **BrassBlower** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:59 pm

The Bow Triplets do an incredible job on this tune!

http://www.soundclick.com/pro/view/01/d ... tent=music

regor · Post by **regor** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:56 am

Not as incredible perhaps, but if you wanted to hear the tune on the whisle, here a link to a previous post:

http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php ... highlight=

ten or more · Post by **ten or more** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:26 am

It certainly is easier/better to play on an A whistle. On my A whistle, however, hitting the high G at the end of the first "A" part is not a nice sound! Maybe I need a better whistle or better technique. I usually just drop down a note to the E and finish the first "A" part on that note.

slowair · Post by **slowair** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:52 am

BrassBlower wrote:The Bow Triplets do an incredible job on this tune!

http://www.soundclick.com/pro/view/01/d ... tent=music

That is a very cool site!!!

Thanks!

peteinmn · Post by **peteinmn** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:13 pm

Turtle,

Check your PMs.

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