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WASHINGTON QUICKSTEP. AKA and see "Steamboat (The), "Steamboat March," “Steamboat Quickstep," "Uncle Jim's.” American, Quickstep (6/8 time). A Major (Sanella): F Major (Hofer). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Elias Howe ("The Musician's Companion"), Boston 1844, p. 128 #4 (unnamed tune in a cotillion set). Mari Ruef Hofer (A Collection of Historic Dances, Spanish, Italian, French, English, German, American), 1917; p. 46. Sanella (Balance and Swing); CDSS.

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