{"id":3922,"date":"2021-07-10T17:01:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T16:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2025-08-17T13:33:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:33:27","slug":"the-road-to-daventry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/the-road-to-daventry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road To Daventry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DaventryFromTheAir_1928.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3923\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DaventryFromTheAir_1928-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DaventryFromTheAir_1928-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DaventryFromTheAir_1928.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Another schottisch, another tune from a signalbox&#8230; <!--more-->This one emerged almost fully formed while trying to recall how to play Cliff Stapleton&#8217;s excellent tune <a href=\"https:\/\/blowzabella.co.uk\/track\/1388461\/the-man-in-the-brown-hat-spring-dance?feature_id=532982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Man In The Brown Hat<\/a>. This link will take you Blowzabella&#8217;s version on their album &#8220;Dance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The title comes from the other thing on my mind that day &#8211; my new job, working for a software house in Daventry, Northamptonshire.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the ABC text:<\/p>\n<pre>X:1\nT:The Road To Daventry\nC:Mark Fry\nH:30th June 2021, Ropley 'box, after playing The Man In The Brown Hat\nM:4\/4\nQ: 1\/4 = 180\nK:D\n|: DEFG A2d2 | cdec d2de | f2d2 edcB | ABAG F2E2 | DEFG A2d2 | cdec d2de | f2d2 edcB | A2Bc d4 :|\n|: ABcd e2ef | g2e2 fedc | GABc d2cB | ABcd e3 A | ABcd edef | gfed e2A2 | GABc dcde | f2e2 d3z :|\n|: d2a2 gfed | e2fe d2A2 | B2A2 G2g2 | gfed e2A2 | d2a2 gfed | e2fe d2A2 | B2A2 GABd | f2e2 d2z2:|<\/pre>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the PDF score:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/RoadToDaventry.pdf\">RoadToDaventry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another schottisch, another tune from a signalbox&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music_for_friends","category-music-scores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4062,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions\/4062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}