Annotation:Hand Organ Hornpipe

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X:1 T:Hand Organ Hornpipe M:2/4 L:1/8 S:White's Unique Collection (1896), No. 97 Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:A (3e/f/g/ | a/e/c/e/ A/c/e/a/ | f/d/B/G/ .A(B/c/) | d/f/e/d/ d/c/B/A/ | G/B/A/F/ E (3e/f/g/ | a/e/c/e/ A/c/e/a/ | f/d/B/G/ A(B/c/) | d/f/e/d/ c/B/A/G/ | B[CA][CA] :| |: e | c/e/a/e/ c/e/a/e/ | d/f/B/f/ d/f/B/f/ | c/e/A/e/ c/e/A/e/ | G/B/e/B/ G/B/e/B/ | c/e/A/e/ c/e/A/e/ | d/f/B/f/ d/f/B/f/ | e/a/g/f/ e/d/c/B/ | c[CA][CA] :|

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HAND ORGAN HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Bristol Hornpipe (The)," "Harlequin Hornpipe (3)," "Lamplighter's Hornpipe (2)," "Clover Blossom (The)," "Slayley Bridge Hornpipe." Irish, New England; Hornpipe. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Burchenal): AABB (Cole). Burchenal prints the tune under the title "Lamplighter's Hornpipe (2)," and also gives a New England contra dance by that title. Ira Ford (Traditional Music in America, 1940) prints the tune as "Melodeon Hornpipe."

A hand organ is a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs, as in a barrel organ, grind organ, hurdy gurdy, hurdy-gurdy, or street organ.