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'''OLD TOM OF OXFORD.''' English, Morris Dance Tune (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCBCB. Collected from the village of Bampton, Oxfordshire, in England's Cotswolds. 'Old Tom' is the name of a famous bell in Christ Church College, Oxford, which hangs in Tom Tower (designed by Christopher Wren). Old Tom, or Great Tom, dates from the sixteenth century and is still sounded each night-101 times, to signify the 100 original scholars of the college (plus one, added in 1663). Bampton fiddler Jinky Wells was interviewed by collector Peter Kennedy in 1952 and had this to say about "Old Tom": | '''OLD TOM OF OXFORD.''' English, Morris Dance Tune (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCBCB. Collected from the village of Bampton, Oxfordshire, in England's Cotswolds. 'Old Tom' is the name of a famous bell in Christ Church College, Oxford, which hangs in Tom Tower (designed by Christopher Wren). Old Tom, or Great Tom, dates from the sixteenth century and is still sounded each night-101 times, to signify the 100 original scholars of the college (plus one, added in 1663). Bampton fiddler Jinky Wells was interviewed by collector Peter Kennedy in 1952 and had this to say about "Old Tom": | ||
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''Printed sources'': Bacon ('''The Morris Ring'''), 1974; p. 54. Mallinson ('''Mally's Cotswold Morris Book'''), 1988; No. 46, p. 29. | ''Printed sources'': Bacon ('''The Morris Ring'''), 1974; p. 54. Mallinson ('''Mally's Cotswold Morris Book'''), 1988; No. 46, p. 29. | ||
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Bellow FECD 175, Spiears & Boden. Veteran VT111, Francis Shergold - "Greeny Up" (1988. Recorded from Bampton morris musicians).</font> | ''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Bellow FECD 175, Spiears & Boden. Veteran VT111, Francis Shergold - "Greeny Up" (1988. Recorded from Bampton morris musicians).</font> | ||
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