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OLD SPAND HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Waterman's Dance." English, "Old" Hornpipe (triple time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCDEFGHIJKL. From Thomas Marsden's A Collection of Original Lancashire Hornpipes, Old and New. Containing Divisions upon each (London, 1705, No. 4). The book was sold out of Henry Playford's shop at the Temple Change, priced at one shilling. Matt Seattle finds a 9/8 time version in John Bell's (1783-1864) Northumbrian tune manuscript under the title "Lad with the Trowser's on" and finds coganates in Thomas D'Urfey's "Country Sheep-Shearing (The)," "Sheep Shearing," and "Esqr. Lessar." A spand was an old name for a handle or haft.

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Printed sources: Offord (John of the Greeny Cheshire Way),

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-'''OLD SPAND HORNPIPE'''. AKA and see "[[Waterman's Dance]]." English, "Old" Hornpipe (triple time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCDEFGHIJKL. From Thomas Marsden's '''A Collection of Original Lancashire Hornpipes, Old and New. Containing Divisions upon each''' (London, 1705). The book was sold out of Henry Playford's shop at the Temple Change, priced at one shilling. Matt Seattle finds a 9/8 time version in John Bell's (1783-1864) Northumbrian tune manuscript under the title "Lad with the Trowser's on" and finds coganates in Thomas D'Urfey's "[[Country Sheep-Shearing (The)]]," "Sheep Shearing," and "Esqr. Lessar." A ''spand'' was an old name for a handle or haft.
+'''OLD SPAND HORNPIPE'''. AKA and see "[[Waterman's Dance]]." English, "Old" Hornpipe (triple time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCDEFGHIJKL. From Thomas Marsden's '''A Collection of Original Lancashire Hornpipes, Old and New. Containing Divisions upon each''' (London, 1705, No. 4). The book was sold out of Henry Playford's shop at the Temple Change, priced at one shilling. Matt Seattle finds a 9/8 time version in John Bell's (1783-1864) Northumbrian tune manuscript under the title "Lad with the Trowser's on" and finds coganates in Thomas D'Urfey's "[[Country Sheep-Shearing (The)]]," "Sheep Shearing," and "Esqr. Lessar." A ''spand'' was an old name for a handle or haft.
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