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J.B. MILLER'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Old Viole." American, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Owen County native Joseph Bernard "J.B." Miller (1902-2002) ran a violin repair shop from his garage off Southland Drive, Lexington, Kentucky.of violins. Born on a farm, J.B. was a barber for forty years before retiring in 1946, after which he devoted himself to making and restoring violins. Self-taught, he completed some 40 violins and a few other instruments in his lifetime, and had a local reputation (Roy Acuff owned one of his violins), but not a national one ^[1]. A somewhat irascible character, Miller was a storyteller and something of a natural philosopher (he once told a client that he fashioned the back of the violin he made for him from timber from the USS Constitution). See note for "annotation:Old Viole" for more on this tune.

Additional notes

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Recorded sources: - Yodel-Ay-Hee 028, The Monks - "Let Us Play" (1999).

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↑ Tenkotte, Claypool, "The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky", 2015, p. 620.

[1] Tenkotte, Claypool, "The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky", 2015, p. 620.

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-'''J.B. MILLER'S HORNPIPE.''' AKA and see "[[Old Viole]]."  American, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Owen County native Joseph Bernard "J.B." Miller (1902-2002) ran a violin repair shop from his garage off Southland Drive, Lexington, Kentucky.of violins. Born on a farm, J.B. was a barber for forty years before retiring in 1946, after which he devoted himself to making and restoring violins. He completed some 40 violins and a few other instruments in his lifetime, and had a local reputation (Roy Acuff owned one of his violins), but not a national one. A somewhat irascible character, Miller was a storyteller and something of a natural philosopher (he once told a client that he fashioned the back of the violin he made for him from timber from the USS Constitution).  See note for "[[annotation:Old Viole]]" for more on this tune.
+'''J.B. MILLER'S HORNPIPE.''' AKA and see "[[Old Viole]]."  American, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Owen County native Joseph Bernard "J.B." Miller (1902-2002) ran a violin repair shop from his garage off Southland Drive, Lexington, Kentucky.of violins. Born on a farm, J.B. was a barber for forty years before retiring in 1946, after which he devoted himself to making and restoring violins. Self-taught, he completed some 40 violins and a few other instruments in his lifetime, and had a local reputation (Roy Acuff owned one of his violins), but not a national one <ref>Tenkotte, Claypool, "The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky", 2015, p. 620. </ref>. A somewhat irascible character, Miller was a storyteller and something of a natural philosopher (he once told a client that he fashioned the back of the violin he made for him from timber from the USS Constitution).  See note for "[[annotation:Old Viole]]" for more on this tune.
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