Annotation:Geld Him Lasses
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GELD HIM LASSES (GELD HIM). AKA and see "Chalk's Hornpipe," "Rusty Gulley (1)." Scottish, 'Old' or Triple Hornpipe (3/2 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDDEEFF. A traditional tune 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). A different tune by the same title appears several times in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (1760).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 6), 1760; p. 23.
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