Some among the assembled company will know I play the banjo.. those who didn't, know now.

I've lately been experimenting with the tenor of the species, and whereas 5-string players tend to treat the melody as more a matter of opinion than fact, this doesn't really work with the tenor, at least in the common "Irish" GDAE tuning.

I've been looking for the scores for "Going up Camborne hill (coming down)" and "Away down to Lamorna". These tend to be somewhat scorned on the "traditional music" scene, the latter in particular being probably derived from a music hall song dating from around 1900 and ( shock horror ) having been recorded by both Fred Wedlock and The Yetties, but do seem to have the great merits of simplicity and durability.

So, if anyone has anything to offer on the score ( FX GROANS ) I'd be interested to know

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Hi, suggest you Google search. billions of vid' teach- banjo. guitar or anything on utube and usually willing to do requests via e'mail :thumbup:

GInotYF in this instance, regrettably. There are numerous discordant and out-of-time versions using various incomplete lyrics for both songs on youtube, but I spent long enough at CSM to be able to do that part for myself ;)

"Way Down To Lamorna" was probably derived from a 1900s music hall song and was recorded by The Yetties and others in the 60s and 70s. "Camborne Hill" occurs as a track on at least one album from around that time.

There is a sort of black hole relating to published music which is probably in copyright but has no great market, and both tunes probably fall into that category. Songs like "You Are My Sunshine" circulate so widely as standard beginner pieces that their copyrights are well known, but to print an obscure piece like "Lamorna" is asking for an attempt of varying credibility from a minor publisher or studio who may feel the chance of a quick return on a moribund copyright is worth a few emails or a solicitors' letter.

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Suggest you e mail Camborne Town band.
If anyone knows, they will!

http://www.cambornetownband.com/ctb_contacts.html 

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Check out lesson 10 in Appendix B - should be all you need to know! (Hint - It's down near the bottom of the page if you want to skip all the jokes.... 🙂 )

http://bluegrassbanjo.org/banjokes.html 

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Suggest you e mail Camborne Town band.
If anyone knows, they will!

http://www.cambornetownband.com/ctb_contacts.html 

I've asked the question of a CSM contemporary who was active on the local band scene during his time there, he says they aren't hard. Then again, folk music usually isn't.

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I'd suggest asking the good folks over at mudcat.org

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You tried Chordi???

(wanders off muttering under his breath about banjos, accordians, bhodrans and summat about "killing them all with FIRERE!")

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bhodrans forever... they are my friends, 'cos God invented bhodrans to give banjo players someone to be rude about, and that fiddlers hate even more than banjo players :thumbup:

there is a thread about "Lamorna" on mudcat, but it goes nowhere useful. "Camborne Hill" and "Little Eyes" seem to be about like asking a uke player if he knows "When I'm Cleaning Windows" :tongue:

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bhodrans forever... they are my friends, 'cos God invented bhodrans to give banjo players someone to be rude about, and that fiddlers hate even more than banjo players :thumbup:

AHHHH!! thanks for reminding me about fiddles, they can be "killed with FIRERE!" as well :devil:

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I always liked the quote on bodhrans from the great uillean piper Seamus Ennis, who is reported as having said the best way to play one is with a penknife!

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Not strictly on topic:



Banging tune in Rosevale mine

Here are the lyrics, with the slightly dodgy verses included:

http://www.brycchancarey.com/places/cornwall/songs.htm 

Also link to recorded versions.

Just so you know what Derrickman is referring to!

Oh and some of the music (maybe you can work out the chords):
http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/DavidKidd/Going_Up_Camborne_Hill_Coming_Down/0000 

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I've seen bhodran players referred to as "goat-whackers" before now....

there was a comment lately on TheSession.org describing uileean pipes as " sounding like a brace of geese being eaten alive" which I thought a trifle harsh, although not much. Given the choice between an inexperienced Bhodran player and piper, I'll take the Bhodranista because they will give up first :lol:

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Inexperienced pipers generally have more sense than to bring their instruments out in public.... My first try on a set of uilleans produced a noise that I described at the time as being like the sound you'd get from committing an indecent act with a goose!

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I'm thinking I ought to say something before AdrianP does.... 😞

there is a good bhodran player at a session I go to, lend him a mandolin and you won't see the round thing all evening :lol:

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