Annotation:Bellingham Hiring: Difference between revisions

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{{TuneAnnotation |f_annotation=BELLINGHAM HIRING. English, Reel (cut time). England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Bellingham Hiring" is a reel entered into the John Hall music manuscript collection (1833). Nothing is known about Hall, but some of the titles in the ms. suggest he was from West Northumberland, where Bellingham is located. Hall may also have been a wind player, posits researcher and Northumbrian piper Matt Seattle, as the settings do not appear to be for the fiddle.

Bellingham is a principal town of West Northumberland, situated on the North Tyne. There was a hiring fair for servants at Bellingham, Spring and Fall, on the Wednesday before Good Friday and the First Saturday after the 15th of September

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+|f_annotation='''BELLINGHAM HIRING.''' English, Reel (cut time). England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Bellingham Hiring" is a reel entered into the John Hall music manuscript collection (1833). Nothing is known about Hall, but some of the titles in the ms. suggest he was from West Northumberland, where Bellingham is located. Hall may also have been a wind player, posits researcher and Northumbrian piper Matt Seattle, as the settings do not appear to be for the fiddle.
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-{{!}}Bellingham
+Bellingham is a principal town of West Northumberland, situated on the North Tyne.  There was a hiring fair for servants at Bellingham, Spring and Fall, on the Wednesday before Good Friday and the First Saturday after the 15th of September
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-{{!}}Wednesday before Good Friday<br />First Saturday after 15th September<br />12th May<br />12th November
-{{!}}Hirings for servants on Saurday before 12th May, Saturday before 12th November. (Later changed to the Wednesday before Good Friday and the Saturday after 15th September?)
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