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I was scanning music recently and came across this arrangement of Under The Double Eagle by Ellis. and thought I would share it. The Walter Jacobs arrangement is much better to play, but I like the cool title sheet on this one.
https://archive.org/details/under-the-double-eagle-march-arr-ellis/...
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Whoa! One bird with 2 crowned heads and the bird looks more like a chicken than an eagle. And the heads look a bit more like the head of a weasel than the head of a bird. Under The Double Chicken? Under The Double Weasel? Yikes!
I learned to play a version on guitar when I was about 14 years old. After hearing Charlie Waller of the Country Gentlemen play it I just had to try it. But I had a small guitar and couldn't get my strings to sound like they were attached to an enormous Dreadnought model guitar like the one Charlie played. Later I found out that playing Under The Double Eagle was a specialty of Texas acoustic flat top guitar players. In the southeast the Necessary Piece was Wildwood Flower. In Texas it was The Double Eagle.
Trapdoor2 said:
Looks polydactyl too. That breeding program has got to stop!
This was the first piece I played when I started learning the guitar. Norman Blake made it sound so easy...
Is it not easier to play when you cut out the intro and A parts and just repeat the B and trio parts over and over?
So basically it becomes bluegrass.
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