Old-Time TOTW #298 is Uncle Paul found in The Fiddle Book by Marion Thede. Thede gives no source fiddler for the tune, but the tune is named after Paul Toupin (13 April 1861--1932). Toupin was born in St. Marys, Pottawatomie County, Kansas, and died in Geary, Glaine County, Oklahoma. He was the son of Amable Toupin (1840-1906) and Mary Margaret McWinnery (1844-1880). Amable Toupin was born in Quebec, Canada, and was in Pottawatomie County, KS, by 1859. Paul Toupin married Martha Jayne Burton (1875-1953). The Toupin family came from Normandie, France, and were in Quebec, Canada, by 1645. Source for above information: public documents, ancestry, and familysearch.
Marion Thede mentions "Uncle Paul has long ago crossed the bar, but a veritable school of fiddlers who sprang up under his tutelage still keep alive his inimitable style of playing. Among these many followers in Oklahoma are Joe WIlsie, Jubal Anderson, 'Fiddlin' Walter' Baker, Sam Sewell, Pat Turney, and two Turney boys, Louis and Mansell, who as entertainers have made Uncle Paul's tunes famous over the radio."
Paul Toupin was Pat Tierney's maternal uncle. Marion collected the tune Green Back Dollar from Tierney for The Fiddle Book. Tierney's sons were both musicians. Lewis (1910-1964) fiddled and doubled on sax with Bob WIlls and the Texas Playboys from 1940-1947, and Mancel (1912-1962) played fiddle and was a jazz pianist with the Village Boys.
Toupin was 1/4 Native American of the Pottawatomie nation.
The information about the Toupin and Tierney families comes from my own research.
Thede surmises this tune might be of Irish origin, but it has characteristics of an English country dance. Check out this recording of me playing the tune in that style: www.dropbox.co...
Joining me is friend Mark McNulty on guitar (Oberlin, OH).
Paul Kirk has been playing bowed string instruments since 1980 and has been teaching them privately, in classroom settings, and in workshop formats since 1988. He studied music theory, composition, music education, music history, and musicology at Cleveland State University. While at CSU, Paul played violas da gamba, krummhorns, and recorders in early music ensembles. He was a founding member of Good Company: A Vocal Ensemble and has founded many of his own bands over the years including A Hundred Thousand Welcomes Celtic Ensemble, Knives and Forks English Country Dance Ensemble, and Down the Road Old-Time String Band. He has composed over 500 folk tunes in a variety of styles.
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