Annotation:Peckhover Walk Hornpipe
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PECKHOVER WALK HORNPIPE. AKA and see "China Orange Hornpipe," "Fisher's Hornpipe." English, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is a variant of the well-known "Fisher's Hornpipe." Peckover Walk (note spelling) was a thoroughfare in the town of Bradford, Yorkshire, England. The tune under this title appears in musicians manuscripts from Kent (William Mittell, 1799) and
Source for notated version: a music manuscript collection by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].
Printed sources: Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 20, p. 33.
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