Annotation:Babbit's Hornpipe

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BABBIT'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Myopia Hornpipe," "Smith's Hornpipe (2)." American, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears twice in William Bradbury Ryan's Ryan's Mammoth Collection in nearly identical versions: as "Babbit's Hornpipe" and "Myopia Hornpipe."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 113. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 151.

Recorded sources:

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