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|f_annotation='''SCANT OF SILLER.''' AKA - "Scant of Silver."  English, Reel (whole time). England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.  The tune appears in the music manuscript collections of William Vickers (1770), a musician from Northumberland, and  William Irwin, a Lake District musician who entered it into his copybook some eighty years later.  The similarly-titled "[[Scant of Money]]" is a different tune, but similar.  Vickers researcher Matt Settle links the tune with "Poor a Purse and Routh o' Credit," and says "there are enough similarities to connect the two, especially bearing in mind the similar meetings of the titles <ref>Matt Seattle, '''Great Northern Tune Book''', 2008, p. 200. </ref>.  He also begs comparison with Vickers own "[[Little Benton]]" or "[[Cuddy  Splutter]]" although he also says that tune may have more in common with "[[Scant of Money]]."
|f_annotation='''SCANT OF SILLER.''' AKA - "Scant of Silver."  AKA and see "[[Poor of Purse but Routh o' Credit]]." English, Reel (whole time). England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.  The tune appears in the music manuscript collections of William Vickers (1770), a musician from Northumberland, and  William Irwin, a Lake District musician who entered it into his copybook some eighty years later.  The similarly-titled "[[Scant of Money]]" is a different tune, but similar.  Vickers researcher Matt Settle links the tune with James Aird's "[[Poor a Purse and Routh o' Credit]]," and says "there are enough similarities to connect the two, especially bearing in mind the similar meetings of the titles <ref>Matt Seattle, '''Great Northern Tune Book''', 2008, p. 200. </ref>.  He also begs comparison with Vickers own "[[Little Benton]]" or "[[Cuddy  Splutter]]" although he also says that tune may have more in common with "[[Scant of Money]]."
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|f_printed_sources=Seattle ('''Great Northern Tune Book/William Vickers'''), 1987, Part 3; No. 517.  Seattle ('''Great Northern Tune Book/William Vickers'''), 2008, No. 517, p. 121.  
|f_printed_sources=Seattle ('''Great Northern Tune Book/William Vickers'''), 1987, Part 3; No. 517.  Seattle ('''Great Northern Tune Book/William Vickers'''), 2008, No. 517, p. 121.  

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SCANT OF SILLER. AKA - "Scant of Silver." AKA and see "Poor of Purse but Routh o' Credit." English, Reel (whole time). England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in the music manuscript collections of William Vickers (1770), a musician from Northumberland, and William Irwin, a Lake District musician who entered it into his copybook some eighty years later. The similarly-titled "Scant of Money" is a different tune, but similar. Vickers researcher Matt Settle links the tune with James Aird's "Poor a Purse and Routh o' Credit," and says "there are enough similarities to connect the two, especially bearing in mind the similar meetings of the titles [1]. He also begs comparison with Vickers own "Little Benton" or "Cuddy Splutter" although he also says that tune may have more in common with "Scant of Money."


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Printed sources : - Seattle (Great Northern Tune Book/William Vickers), 1987, Part 3; No. 517. Seattle (Great Northern Tune Book/William Vickers), 2008, No. 517, p. 121.






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  1. Matt Seattle, Great Northern Tune Book, 2008, p. 200.