Annotation:Miss Hamilton's Reel (1)
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MISS HAMILTON'S REEL. AKA and see "Virginia Hornpipe (1)." Irish, Reel. F Major/D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was printed as "Virginia Hornpipe (1)" in James S. Kerr's Merry Melodies vol. 3 (c. 1880's). "Miss Hamilton's Reel" was also entered into the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork Anglican cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman [1] (p. 136).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: P.M. Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 2), 1858; No. 133, p. 61.
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