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DRUCKEN MOLL KNOX. AKA - "Drunken Moll Know." English, Reel or Strathspey (whole time). England, Northumberland. G Major (Bruce & Stokoe): A Major (Cocks). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Merriam-Webster gives that drucken is a Scottish variant of 'drunken'. The tune was contained in the music manuscript collection of John Smith, dated 1752, which unfortunately is now lost. According to Northumbrian piper and researcher Matt Seattle, John Stokoe copied tune from Smith's ms. in 1887, five years after the publication of his Northumbrian Minstrelsy.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 172. Cocks (Tutor for the Northumbrian Half-Long Bagpipes), 1925; No. 36, p. 16.

Recorded sources: East Allen Recording EAR016-2, Keith Davidson and Neil Smith - "Big Men - Small Pipes: The Art Of Northumbrian Pipe Duets" (1995).

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-'''DRUCKEN MOLL KNOX'''. AKA - "Drunken Moll Know." English, Reel or Strathspey (whole time). England, Northumberland. G Major (Bruce & Stokoe): A Major (Cocks). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Merriam-Webster gives that ''drucken'' is a Scottish variant of 'drunken'.
+'''DRUCKEN MOLL KNOX'''. AKA - "Drunken Moll Know." English, Reel or Strathspey (whole time). England, Northumberland. G Major (Bruce & Stokoe): A Major (Cocks). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Merriam-Webster gives that ''drucken'' is a Scottish variant of 'drunken'. The tune was contained in the music manuscript collection of John Smith, dated 1752, which unfortunately is now lost. According to Northumbrian piper and researcher Matt Seattle, John Stokoe copied tune from Smith's ms. in 1887, five years after the publication of his '''Northumbrian Minstrelsy'''.
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