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''Source for notated version'': Bill Hensley (western North Carolina) [Milliner & Koken, Phillips].
''Source for notated version'': Bill Hensley (Asheville, western North Carolina) [Milliner & Koken, Phillips].
 
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HOPPING JOHN. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, western North Carolina. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune features slides and staccato which is meant to suggest hopping.

Source for notated version: Bill Hensley (Asheville, western North Carolina) [Milliner & Koken, Phillips].

Fiddlin' Bill Hensley



Printed sources: Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p.. 305. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), 1994; p. 114.

Recorded sources:

See also listing at:
Hear Bill Hensley's c. 1940's recording at Slippery Hill [1]




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