Annotation:Reefer's Hornpipe
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REEFER'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Ned Kendall's Hornpipe (2)," "Reel du chauffeur." American, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. The melody was entered into the 1859 music manuscript collection of M.E. Eames, a musician probably from Philadelphia, Pa., as "Reefer's Hornpipe." Dance instructions for Reeper's Hornpipe appear in George Washburn's The Ball-Room Manual of Contra Dances and Social Cotillons (1863).
Source for notated version: Ken Campbell [Phillips].
Printed sources:
Guest (A Hundred Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; p. 44.
Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 220.
Recorded sources:
Banff RBS 1163, Graham Townsend – "International Fiddling Champion 1963."
See also listing at:
Hear Gramham Townsend's 1963 recording on youtube.com [1]