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|f_annotation='''GILL BLASS. ''' English (?), Waltz (3/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Gill Blass" was entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter, a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset. It is a curious title, not found elsewhere, and may be a misinterpretation of the handwritten title in the ms. There is a remote possibility that it was a vehicle for the Scottish "Gill Morice" (AKA "[[Gill Morris]]), although the tune is not similar to the usual tunes by that name. | |f_annotation='''GILL BLASS. ''' English (?), Waltz (3/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Gill Blass" was entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter, a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset. It is a curious title, not found elsewhere, and may be a misinterpretation of the handwritten title in the ms. There is a remote possibility that it was a vehicle for the Scottish "Gill Morice" (AKA "[[Gill Morris]]," "Child Maurice," "Child Morris," "Gil Morice," "Bill Norrie"), although the tune is not similar to the usual tunes by that name. | ||
|f_printed_sources=Geoff Woolfe ('''William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book'''), 2007; No. 262, p. 98 (ms. originally dated 1850). | |f_printed_sources=Geoff Woolfe ('''William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book'''), 2007; No. 262, p. 98 (ms. originally dated 1850). | ||
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GILL BLASS. English (?), Waltz (3/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Gill Blass" was entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter, a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset. It is a curious title, not found elsewhere, and may be a misinterpretation of the handwritten title in the ms. There is a remote possibility that it was a vehicle for the Scottish "Gill Morice" (AKA "Gill Morris," "Child Maurice," "Child Morris," "Gil Morice," "Bill Norrie"), although the tune is not similar to the usual tunes by that name.
