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OCCIDENTAL HORNPIPE. American, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Like the "Oriental Hornpipe," this tune may possibly have been named for a New York City concert saloon. Brooks McNamara, in his book The New York Concert Saloon: The Devil's Own Nights (2002, p. 43), records:
In 1864, the Occidental may well have had both music and waiter girls, who spent at least part of their time performing. The veteran William Allen had both a piano and violin at the Occidental. "Taking a look around the internal arrangements," wrote the Clipper [ed.-a period entertainment periodical], "we noticed a piano fixed plumb up against the windows facing the street- rather a cold place in the winter time-with a very nice looking girl seated thereat; and by her side sat a violinist. While the latter fiddled the former played upon the grand pianner."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 102. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 138.
Recorded sources: