Fiddler Magazine made a survey of the top twenty tunes.
They polled fiddlers all over the world. Some tunes tied for a place.
This was published in the Spring 1995 issue.
They are not ranked the same as the Grassometer's Top
Ten, but they include the Top Ten.
You can see what tune is the unqualified favorite. You
can get this one and the
other Top Ten Tunes in a pdf file. Just click
here.
1. Soldier's Joy
2. St. Anne's Reel
3. (tied) Old Joe Clark, Ragtime Annie
4. Arkansas Traveler
5. Ashokan Farewell
6. (tied) Cripple Creek,
Liberty, Westphalia Waltz
7. Redwing
8. (tied) Fisher's Hornpipe, Mississippi Sawyer, Whiskey Before Breakfast
9. (tied) Faded Love, Golden Slippers
10. Tennessee Waltz
11. (tied) Devil's Dream, Over the
Waterfall, Turkey in the Straw
12. (tied) Bill Cheatham, Boil
Them Cabbage Down, Blackberry Blossom, Flowers of Edinburgh
13. (tied) Angeline the Baker, Midnight on the Water
14. (tied) Boys of Bluehill, Eighth of January, Flop-Eared Mule, Sally
Goodin
15. (tied) Chinese Breakdown, Over the Waves, Sailor's Hornpipe
16. (tied) Down Yonder, Girl I Left Behind Me, Irish Washerwoman, Kitchen
Girl, Leather Britches, Wildwood
Flower
17. (tied) Billy in the Lowground, Cindy, Cotton-Eyed Joe, Forked Deer,
Harvest Home, Joys of Quebec, Kentucky Waltz, Sally Ann, Salt Creek,
Year of the Jubilo
18 (tied) Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine, Bonaparte's Retreat, Buffalo
Gals, Darling Nellie Gray, June Apple, Miss McLeod's,Orange
Blossum Special, Rock the Cradle--Joe, Snow Deer, Staten Island Hornpipe,
Temperance Reel, Under the Double Eagle
