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'''ASEY'S PIECE'''. AKA and see "[[Oho Oho I've Found You Out]]," "[[Hunnell's Double Drag]]." American, Jig. USA, Pa. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning. AB. The title comes from "its being a favorite piece of Asa Sellers, a crippled cobbler of Waynesburg, Greene County, who was a devoted and famed fifer, and used to march, with a pronounced limp, in every martial-band parade possible" (Bayard). Bayard says that while the piece appears seldom in collections, it was once widely known along both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and was one of the best-known fife tunes. Bayard traces the tune to Northumberland where it appears in Bruce and Stokoe's '''Northumbrian Minstrelsy''' as "[[O I hae seen the roses blaw]]". O'Neill has a version as "[[Ellis' Jig]]", and one called "[[Mason's Quickstep]]" can be found in the '''American Veteran Fifer''' (No. 23). | '''ASEY'S PIECE'''. AKA and see "[[Oho Oho I've Found You Out]]," "[[Hunnell's Double Drag]]." American, Jig. USA, Pa. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning. AB. The title comes from "its being a favorite piece of Asa Sellers, a crippled cobbler of Waynesburg, Greene County, who was a devoted and famed fifer, and used to march, with a pronounced limp, in every martial-band parade possible" (Bayard). Bayard says that while the piece appears seldom in collections, it was once widely known along both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and was one of the best-known fife tunes. Bayard traces the tune to Northumberland where it appears in Bruce and Stokoe's '''Northumbrian Minstrelsy''' as "[[O I hae seen the roses blaw]]". O'Neill has a version as "[[Ellis' Jig]]", and one called "[[Mason's Quickstep]]" can be found in the '''American Veteran Fifer''' (No. 23). | ||
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''Source for notated version'': Charles Ganiear (orig. Greene County, Pa.) [Bayard]. | ''Source for notated version'': Charles Ganiear (orig. Greene County, Pa.) [Bayard]. | ||
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''Printed sources'': Bayard ('''Dance to the Fiddle'''), 1981; No. 610B, p. 540. | ''Printed sources'': Bayard ('''Dance to the Fiddle'''), 1981; No. 610B, p. 540. | ||
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ASEY'S PIECE. AKA and see "Oho Oho I've Found You Out," "Hunnell's Double Drag." American, Jig. USA, Pa. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning. AB. The title comes from "its being a favorite piece of Asa Sellers, a crippled cobbler of Waynesburg, Greene County, who was a devoted and famed fifer, and used to march, with a pronounced limp, in every martial-band parade possible" (Bayard). Bayard says that while the piece appears seldom in collections, it was once widely known along both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and was one of the best-known fife tunes. Bayard traces the tune to Northumberland where it appears in Bruce and Stokoe's Northumbrian Minstrelsy as "O I hae seen the roses blaw". O'Neill has a version as "Ellis' Jig", and one called "Mason's Quickstep" can be found in the American Veteran Fifer (No. 23).
Source for notated version: Charles Ganiear (orig. Greene County, Pa.) [Bayard].
Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 610B, p. 540.
Recorded sources: