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|f_annotation='''JOHN DIMOND'S REEL'''. American, Reel (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Dimond has been said to "have been the most skillful and accomplished jig dancer that ever appeared on the American stage" <ref>From a description of a lithograph (No. 3680) in the catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson McKee [https://books.google.com/books?id=tF4LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA758&lpg=PA758&dq=%22john+dimond%22+stage+dancer&source=bl&ots=TEB-g0fg6t&sig=ACfU3U105TBA4ZDSoSudpMgqZoBX1dl6vQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjb_oeGypjqAhU-mHIEHUJ1Dm8Q6AEwCnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22john%20dimond%22%20stage%20dancer&f=false]. John Anderson Jr., '''Catalogue of the Library of the late Thomas J. McKee of New York''', Part IV, 1902, p. 758.</ref>.
|f_annotation='''JOHN DIMOND'S REEL'''. American, Reel (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Dimond (sometimes given as 'Diamond') has been said to "have been the most skillful and accomplished jig dancer that ever appeared on the American stage" <ref>From a description of a lithograph (No. 3680) in the catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson McKee [https://books.google.com/books?id=tF4LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA758&lpg=PA758&dq=%22john+dimond%22+stage+dancer&source=bl&ots=TEB-g0fg6t&sig=ACfU3U105TBA4ZDSoSudpMgqZoBX1dl6vQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjb_oeGypjqAhU-mHIEHUJ1Dm8Q6AEwCnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22john%20dimond%22%20stage%20dancer&f=false]. John Anderson Jr., '''Catalogue of the Library of the late Thomas J. McKee of New York''', Part IV, 1902, p. 758.</ref>.  There was a tinted lithograph representing the stage of the Chatham Theatre, New York, with Billy Whitlock playing the banjo with Dimond dancing in 1845 <ref>ibid. </ref>.
|f_printed_sources=Buckley ( '''Buckley's Violin Tunes'''), 1855; p. 34.
|f_printed_sources=Buckley ( '''Buckley's Violin Tunes'''), 1855; p. 34.
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JOHN DIMOND'S REEL. American, Reel (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Dimond (sometimes given as 'Diamond') has been said to "have been the most skillful and accomplished jig dancer that ever appeared on the American stage" [1]. There was a tinted lithograph representing the stage of the Chatham Theatre, New York, with Billy Whitlock playing the banjo with Dimond dancing in 1845 [2].


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Printed sources : - Buckley ( Buckley's Violin Tunes), 1855; p. 34.






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  1. From a description of a lithograph (No. 3680) in the catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson McKee [1]. John Anderson Jr., Catalogue of the Library of the late Thomas J. McKee of New York, Part IV, 1902, p. 758.
  2. ibid.