Annotation:Prince of Wales' Hornpipe (1)
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PRINCE OF WALES’ HORNPIPE [1]. English, Hornpipe. A Major (Sumner). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Gibbons originally set the tune in the key of ‘C’ major in his ms., while another Lincolnshire musician, Thomas Sands, set it in B Flat in his c. 1810 manuscript collection.
Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].
Printed sources: Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 60.
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