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'''OLD VIOLE.''' AKA - "[[Old Voyle]]." AKA and see "[[Constitution Hornpipe (3)]]," "[[Farewell Mary Ann]]," "[[J.B. Miller's Reel]]" Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. The tune comes from Grant County, Kentucky, and was recorded by fiddler Frank Miller with the north-central Kentucky group the Blue Ridge Mountaineers in 1929 for Gennett Records. It was named after a man whose name was Viole Franks, a mail carrier in Grant County who played the tune but had no name for it. The tune was colleted in Anderson County, Kentucky, under the title "Constitution Hornpipe," and a close variant | '''OLD VIOLE.''' AKA - "[[Old Voyle]]." AKA and see "[[Constitution Hornpipe (3)]]," "[[Farewell Mary Ann]]," "[[J.B. Miller's Reel]]" Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. The tune comes from Grant County, Kentucky, and was recorded by fiddler Frank Miller with the north-central Kentucky group the Blue Ridge Mountaineers in 1929 for Gennett Records. It was named after a man whose name was Viole Franks, a mail carrier in Grant County who played the tune but had no name for it. The tune was colleted in Anderson County, Kentucky, under the title "Constitution Hornpipe," and a close variant was similarly collected in Mississippi as "Farewell Mary Ann." In modern time Miller's name seems to have evolved into "J.B." instead of 'Frank', and the tune has been called "[[J.B. Miller's Reel]]." | ||
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Gennett 6870 (78 RPM), Blue Ridge Mountaineers (1929). Morning Star 45005, Blue Ridge Mountaineers - "Way Down South in Dixie."</font> | ''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Gennett 6870 (78 RPM), Blue Ridge Mountaineers (1929). Morning Star 45005, Blue Ridge Mountaineers - "Way Down South in Dixie." Yodel-Ay-Hee 028, The Monks - "Let Us Play" (1999, as "Old Voyle"). </font> | ||
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OLD VIOLE. AKA - "Old Voyle." AKA and see "Constitution Hornpipe (3)," "Farewell Mary Ann," "J.B. Miller's Reel" Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. The tune comes from Grant County, Kentucky, and was recorded by fiddler Frank Miller with the north-central Kentucky group the Blue Ridge Mountaineers in 1929 for Gennett Records. It was named after a man whose name was Viole Franks, a mail carrier in Grant County who played the tune but had no name for it. The tune was colleted in Anderson County, Kentucky, under the title "Constitution Hornpipe," and a close variant was similarly collected in Mississippi as "Farewell Mary Ann." In modern time Miller's name seems to have evolved into "J.B." instead of 'Frank', and the tune has been called "J.B. Miller's Reel."
The reel has the characteristics of a hornpipe.
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Recorded sources: Gennett 6870 (78 RPM), Blue Ridge Mountaineers (1929). Morning Star 45005, Blue Ridge Mountaineers - "Way Down South in Dixie." Yodel-Ay-Hee 028, The Monks - "Let Us Play" (1999, as "Old Voyle").