Cecil Teagh
Cecil Teagh, (1895- ) Moonan Brook, Upper Hunter, NSW provided details of some of the Australian tunes in this archive.
Portrait: [1], "Now retired to Scone, the Teagh brothers grew up and played for dances at Moonanbrook, where "the further up you go, the closer the hills come together" as Cecil relates."
Cecil Teagh was interviewed by:
- John Meredith - [2], Cecil Teagh and Tom O'Brien interviewed. Teagh speaks of learning to play fiddle, dancing, playing at dances, his fiddle and repairs ; Fiddle: 9.Irish washerwoman, step dance tune in polka-time
"Cecil Teagh, and his brother Russel Teagh grew up near Moonan Brook, a tributary to the Hunter River ... not far from Jim Wilkinson ... Born in 1895, Cecil was the elder brother by ten years ... He lived with his wife in a retirement village in Scone, where he played eight good dance tunes for us, told us some stories about the bush dances of his younger days ... was given a violin by an old chap from America ... and I had this violin for years, a little one it was, you know, half size, I really learnt to play on that. Later I bought another violin ... I taught myself to play ... We had a band out at Moonan Brook, about eight of us ... two piano accordions, two guitars, me on the violin, another fella on drums, and an ordinary accordion ... Their father had played the concertina, so doubtless some of their tunes had come from him, perhaps he may have been the eighth member of the Moonan Brook band." -- (adapted from) J Meredith, R Covell, P Brown, Folk Songs of Australia Vol 2, UNSW Press, 1987, p113-19.
