REQ: Nic Jones

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jamie Phillips) writes:

> Anyone know of any links to Nic Jones (Penguin Eggs Nic) TAB? Or tunings info?
> Thanks

Aren't some tunings published in the liner notes of "In Search Of" and
/ or "Unearthed"?  If you haven't got those, you are missing some
greate repertoire, and interesting live re-releases of older songs.
I don't guarantee that tunings are there -- I am writing from work and
the CDs are at home.

I had a crack at Canadee-I-O a few years ago in TablEdit format, and
let it get out on the web.  It is probably still out there in some
places, although the official TablEdit collection have now excised
most pieces transcribed without the author's permission, including
(sad to say) Canadee-I-O.  The tuning is CGCGCD  but down a step so
actually B-flat rather than C tuning.  Recently I went to my local
public library and looked at a back issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine 
containing a transcription of Canadee-I-O.  It made me realize why I
am in the computer business, not in the transcribing business.

An even more approximate ASCII tab of Canadee-I-O is available in
Rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature from Dec 20, 1995.

I was interested in the question of tunings, so I looked around the
web and got the following info. (If I got it from the web it must be
true, right?)

I seem to remember that Clyde Water is CGCGCC with the double C on top
allowing some interesting dulcimer effects.  I seem to recall (with
less confidence) that Farewell To the Gold is in open G -- Ah yes: I
posted Bob Cimikowski's notes on it in rec.music.folk.tablature 
Date: 2000/02/03 

The Golden Glove CGCGCD with chords,
From: Bob Cimikowski
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Date: 1994-02-10 14:41:48 PST


Annan Water DGDGBD 
The Butcher And The Tailor's Wife DADGBE
William And Nancy's Parting DGDGAD
William Glen CGCGCC
Dance To Your Daddy - Nic Jones DADGAD 

all of the above thanks to "Tish" in 2000.

See aldo Mike Raven's book "English Folk Guitar", which has
transcriptions of the tunes that Tish gave us the tunings to.

-- Allyn Dimock