Annotation:Boring the Leather (1)

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BORING THE LEATHER [1]. Irish, English; Jig. D Minor (Huntington/Litten): E Minor (Miller). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. William Litten, in whose manuscript copybook this tune appears, was a ship's fiddler on a ship or ships attached to the British India fleet, 1800-1802. The manuscript was brought to the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard aboard a whaleship by Allen Coffin of Edgartown in the early 19th century and remained on the island, although how it came to Coffin's possession is unknown.

Printed source: biography:Gale Huntington (William Litten's Tune Book), 1977; p. 29. Miller (Fiddler's Throne), 2004; No. 12, p. 20.

Recorded source: RM-1C, Randy Miller - "The Lore of the Fingerboard" (1990).

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