- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- Round Peak, North Carolina
- Form
- Breakdown
- Key
- D
- Level
- 2
- Played on
- Fiddle and Mandolin
In the public domain. Source
Music
100bpm
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Chord chart
History
Tommy Jarrell of Mount Airy, North Carolina, and his father Ben knew this tune as "Rochester Schottische," though it is a breakdown and has nothing in common with the schottische of that name printed in older American books. Barry Poss suggested that a real "Rochester Schottische" was once played around Round Peak, and that its name drifted loose and landed on this tune.
Other Round Peak players, Charlie Lowe among them, called it "Walking in the Parlor," a title shared by several unrelated Southern tunes. Jarrell's 1976 County album Sail Away Ladies carried it to revival players.