Bennett was recorded by Peter Kennedy in the 1950s. Woodley's phrasing and rhythm are said to derive much from the style of Wells, though he also heard and danced to Bennett and other older players. Sam used to grunt while he was playing, you know, and he never took a bit of notice. By way of encouragement, Bennett gave Woodley one of his own fiddles. Woodley continued to play it every Whit Monday until his death from cancer.
Witnesses say the instrument dropped out of tune when the casket passed by.
Woodley's playing was recorded at a fiddlers' convention in Oxford, 1986. Chris Bartram follows in this line of Southern English fiddle players. Although born in London, he spent most of his youth close to the heart of morris dancing, and has direct links to the older players through Arnold Woodley. A few years later he was cycling through Bampton on Whit Monday when he saw the Bampton Morris Men dancing to a fiddler, probably Arnold Woodley, and became fascinated. Soon afterwards, he acquired a fiddle and started to teach himself.