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'''BIG INDIAN HORNPIPE'''. Old-Time, Hornpipe (cut time). USA, northeast Ky. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Source Buddy Thomas (1935-1974) learned this from northeast Kentucky/southern Ohio playing partners and mentors Morris Allen and Jimmy Wheeler. Thomas fiddle exponent Roger Cooper <ref>Liner notes to Rounder CD 0533, Roger Cooper - "Essence of Old Kentucky" (2006). </ref> notes that there is another, different tune by this title played by Kentucky fiddlers George Hawkins and Alfred Bailey, even though they lived in nearby Bath County [Bailey's version can be heard on Rounder CD 0376, "Traditional Fiddle Music of Kentucky, vol. 1", 1997]. Cooper also recalls seeing a tune list from 1932 that contains a tune called "Big Engine Hornpipe." Thomas may have composed the third strain variation himself, notes Cooper, which Thomas said represented an Indian's war cry. See also the related "[[Lardner's Reel (1)]]," from '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''' (1883). [[File:thomas.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Buddy Thomas]]<br> | '''BIG INDIAN HORNPIPE'''. Old-Time, Hornpipe (cut time). USA, northeast Ky. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Source Buddy Thomas (1935-1974) learned this from northeast Kentucky/southern Ohio playing partners and mentors Morris Allen and Jimmy Wheeler. Thomas fiddle exponent Roger Cooper <ref>Liner notes to Rounder CD 0533, Roger Cooper - "Essence of Old Kentucky" (2006). </ref> notes that there is another, different tune by this title played by Kentucky fiddlers George Hawkins and Alfred Bailey, even though they lived in nearby Bath County [Bailey's version can be heard on Rounder CD 0376, "Traditional Fiddle Music of Kentucky, vol. 1", 1997]. Cooper also recalls seeing a tune list from 1932 that contains a tune called "Big Engine Hornpipe." Thomas may have composed the third strain variation himself, notes Cooper, which Thomas said represented an Indian's war cry. See also the related "[[Lardner's Reel (1)]]," from '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''' (1883). [[File:thomas.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Buddy Thomas]]<br> The tune was also in the repertoire of Portsmouth, Ohio, fiddler and instrument repairer Jimmy Wheeler (1917-1987), who learned it either from his father or Acey "Aaa" Neal. Jeff Goehring says it was one of the "not-strictly Kentucky" tunes "popular among Portsmouth area fiddlers of an earlier era" <ref>Jeff Goehring, "First Recording Session with Jimmy Wheeler" [https://fieldrecorder.org/first-recording-session-with-jimmy-wheeler/]</ref>.<br> | ||
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The tune was also in the repertoire of Portsmouth, Ohio, fiddler and instrument repairer Jimmy Wheeler (1917-1987), who learned it either from his father or Acey "Aaa" Neal. Jeff Goehring says it was one of the "not-strictly Kentucky" tunes "popular among Portsmouth area fiddlers of an earlier era" [2].