Cecil Chapman

Cecil Chapman,(1932- ), Nulla Nulla, NSW, provided details of some of the Australian tunes in this archive.

Cecil Chapman was interviewed by:

• Rob Willis in March 2004 [1], [2], [3], "Cecil Chapman born in 1932 in East Kempsey, discusses his parents; his musical family; his mother's music; his father being a soldier settler, obtaining a block of land in 1920; the dances, surprise parties and kitchen teas where his father played the violin; how he also played the concertina and button accordion; how his father sometimes played with Aboriginal leaf players; country and western music; the Kirkpatrick family; talks about his father's poetry; refers to Bobby Haberfield; the songs he learned in school; the school teacher who taught those tunes and songs; the teacher Sid Jackson, who taught folk songs; his father's nervous breakdown; the Stripling Brothers and different tunings for the fiddle; his memories of characters from Willawarren; his early working life; 'warning' experiences (paranormal); numerology.

• Rob Willis in December 2010 [4]. In it, Cecil Chapman talks about the places where his father played the fiddle; his father's fiddle tuning style; other fiddle players from the area, Alec Kyle, Billy Kyle and George Fuller: musicians gathering to play as individuals and not in a group, the size of their repertoire; Stephen Foster melodies. He plays on his fiddle and sings.

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