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'''LENO HORNPIPE.''' Scottish, Hornpipe (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is credited to John B. Easton, Edinburgh, by editor W.B. Laybourn in '''Köhlers’ Violin Repository, Book 3''' (1885). | '''LENO HORNPIPE.''' Scottish, Hornpipe (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is credited to John B. Easton, Edinburgh, by editor W.B. Laybourn in '''Köhlers’ Violin Repository, Book 3''' (1885). The title may refer to English entertainer George Grant, born George Wild Gavin in 1860, who took the stage name Dan Leno early on as a childhood member of "the little Leno's", a family act. Leno was a small man, only 5 ft., 3 in., tall, but became the most popular entertainer in Britain. In the 1880's however, he was best known for his clog-dancing, after winning his first competition in Wakefield (the prize for which was a purse of silver and a leg of mutton). He was encouraged by another comic singer to enter a clog-dancing competition in Leeds for the larger prize of a gold and silver belt, worth ₤50, a huge sum for the times, and the right to the title "Champion Clog-Dancer of the World." Leno entered the competition as a relative unknown, and bested two well-regarded local dancers to take top honors. A biographer, John J. Wood, described one of his performances in the early 1880's: | ||
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LENO HORNPIPE. Scottish, Hornpipe (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is credited to John B. Easton, Edinburgh, by editor W.B. Laybourn in Köhlers’ Violin Repository, Book 3 (1885). The title may refer to English entertainer George Grant, born George Wild Gavin in 1860, who took the stage name Dan Leno early on as a childhood member of "the little Leno's", a family act. Leno was a small man, only 5 ft., 3 in., tall, but became the most popular entertainer in Britain. In the 1880's however, he was best known for his clog-dancing, after winning his first competition in Wakefield (the prize for which was a purse of silver and a leg of mutton). He was encouraged by another comic singer to enter a clog-dancing competition in Leeds for the larger prize of a gold and silver belt, worth ₤50, a huge sum for the times, and the right to the title "Champion Clog-Dancer of the World." Leno entered the competition as a relative unknown, and bested two well-regarded local dancers to take top honors. A biographer, John J. Wood, described one of his performances in the early 1880's:
He danced on the stage, he danced on the pedestal; he danced on a slab of slate; he was encored over and over again; but throughout his performance, he never uttered a word.
Leno went on to have an extremely successful career as a music hall entertainer, even performing for Queen Victoria.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Laybourn (Köhlers’ Violin Repository, Book 3), 1885; p. 220.
Recorded sources: