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OLD SPORT [2]. AKA and see "Callahan," "Last of Callahan." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, southwestern Va. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Identified by Albert Hash as originally having been a British Isles tune, although it has not been identified. According to his nephew, Hash learned the tune (along with "Hangman's Reel") from fiddler Bill Northcutt who recorded a few LP's on the Stoneway label in the 1960's.

Source for notated version: fiddler and instrument maker Albert Hash (Rugby, Va.) [Phillips].

Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 175.

Recorded sources: Heritage (Galax) 041, Albert Hash and the Whitetop Mountain Band - "Whitetop" (198?).

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+'''OLD SPORT [2].''' AKA and see "[[Callahan]]," "[[Last of Callahan]]." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, southwestern Va. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Identified by Albert Hash as originally having been a British Isles tune, although it has not been identified. According to his nephew, Hash learned the tune (along with "[[Hangman's Reel]]") from fiddler Bill Northcutt who recorded a few LP's on the Stoneway label in the 1960's.
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