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N: - by Chris Sullivan, from Dooley Chapman, Dunedoo, NSW, as "Dooley's Polka"
 
N: - by Chris Sullivan, from Dooley Chapman, Dunedoo, NSW, as "Dooley's Polka"
 
H:Charlie learned this tune from his father, who was born in Mansfield, Vic.
 
H:Charlie learned this tune from his father, who was born in Mansfield, Vic.
H:Foster Sr. followed the gold rush to Kiandra. Gold was discovered there in 1859 
 
H:and in 1860 Kiandra comprised some 15,000 miners. The alluvial gold ran out by 1861
 
H:and the miners moved on, but mining continued until 1905. The town gradually
 
H:dwindled in size until the last of the buildings was destroyed by bush fires in 2020.
 
H:Foster Sr. free selected a block near the Willygobung hills, 50km west of Kiandra,
 
H:and 10km north of Tumbarumba. Charlie still lived on the selection at the time Meredith
 
H:collected this tune in 1983.
 
 
F:https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2658606
 
F:https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2658606
 
F:https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-215892304/listen
 
F:https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-215892304/listen

Latest revision as of 16:00, 20 March 2022


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T:Charlie Foster's Lancer's Set Tune
% NFF Book 2009
S:collected from Charlie Foster, (1908-?), Tumbarumba, NSW
S:John Meredith Collection, NLA, Bib ID: 3408460
B:J Meredith, R Covell, & P Brown, Folk Songs of Australia Vol 2, UNSW Press, 1987, p260, ISBN 0 86840 018
Z:Arr. David Johnson
N:The original is in F.
N:Older related tunes:
N: - Niel Gow, First Collection Strathspey Reels (1784), as "Farewell to Whisky"
N:Related tunes collected in Australia:
N: - by Alan Musgrove, from Bill case, Mt Gambier, SA as "Bill Case's Heel and Toe Polka"
N: - by Chris Sullivan, from Dooley Chapman, Dunedoo, NSW, as "Dooley's Polka"
H:Charlie learned this tune from his father, who was born in Mansfield, Vic.
F:https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2658606
F:https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-215892304/listen
O:Australia, NSW, Tumbarumba
R:Set Tune
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:G
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Charlie Foster's Lancer's Set Tune - played by Greg O'Leary

Additional Information

Additional information may be available on the following people or organisations associated with the collection of this tune:
| Charlie Foster | John Meredith Collection |