Annotation:Randall's Hornpipe

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RANDALL'S HORNPIPE. American, Hornpipe. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A heavily arpeggiated hornpipe that began as a New England regional tune and was adopted in several North American fiddling genres, from musicians as disperse as Texas, Kentucky and Ontario.

Source for notated version: fiddler Benny Thomasson (1909–1984, born in Runnels County, Texas, and raised in Gatesville) [Phillips]. Learned from Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940).

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 95. Howe (The Musician's Companion, Part 3), 1844; p. 41. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 217. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 131.

Recorded sources: Rounder 7018, Frank Ferrell - "Boston Fiddle: The Dudley Street Tradition" (1996).

See also listing at:
Hear a 1977 field recording of the tune played by George Hawkins (Bath County, Ky.) at the Digital Library of Applachia [1] and at Slippery Hill [2]
See/Hear Patti Kusturok [3] and Vi Wickham [4][5] play the tune on youtubde.com.

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