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'''GELD HIM LASSES (GELD HIM)'''. AKA and see "[[Chalk's Hornpipe]]," "[[Punchinello's Hornpipe]]," "[[Rusty Gulley (1)]]." Scottish, 'Old' or Triple Hornpipe (3/2 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDDEEFF. | |f_annotation='''GELD HIM LASSES (GELD HIM)'''. AKA and see "[[Chalk's Hornpipe]]," "[[Punchinello's Hornpipe]]," "[[Rusty Gulley (1)]]." Scottish, 'Old' or Triple Hornpipe (3/2 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDDEEFF. The tune with the title "Geld Him Lasses" was published in the mid-18th century, in the relatively less strict times between the reformation and Victorian eras. It appears in the (James) '''Gillespie Manuscript of Perth''' (1768), and in Book 6 of cellist-composer [[James Oswald]]'s '''Caledonian Pocket Companion''' (Oswald must have liked the title: A different tune by the same title appears several times in James Oswald's '''Caledonian Pocket Companion''' (1760)). | ||
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''Geld him, lasses, geld him!''<br> | ''Geld him, lasses, geld him!''<br> | ||
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|f_printed_sources=Oswald ('''Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 6'''), 1760; p. 23. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Topic Records, Alistair Anderson - "Corby Craig" (1977). | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Hear Alistair Anderson's recording on youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=524gljiCvN8]<br> | |||
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Hear Alistair Anderson's recording on youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=524gljiCvN8]<br> | |||
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Revision as of 02:50, 28 March 2022
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GELD HIM LASSES (GELD HIM). AKA and see "Chalk's Hornpipe," "Punchinello's Hornpipe," "Rusty Gulley (1)." Scottish, 'Old' or Triple Hornpipe (3/2 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDDEEFF. The tune with the title "Geld Him Lasses" was published in the mid-18th century, in the relatively less strict times between the reformation and Victorian eras. It appears in the (James) Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768), and in Book 6 of cellist-composer James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (Oswald must have liked the title: A different tune by the same title appears several times in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (1760)).
David Herd & Hans Hecht (Songs from David Herd's Manuscripts, 1904, p. 182) print a fragment of the once popular song:
There came a fidler out of France,
I wat nae giff ye kend him, ....('know not if'...)
And he yon wi' our good wife:
Geld him, lasses, geld him!
