Annotation:Red House of Cardiff

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RED HOUSE OF CARDIFF (Tycoch Caerdyd). English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). England, Wales. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. A version of Playford's "Red House." The title has a reference to a town in Wales that was not in Playford's original title. Nicholas Bennett (Alawon fy Ngwlad, 1896) characterizes the tune as a pib-ddawns, or pipe-dance.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Nicholas Bennett (Alawon Fy Ngwlad: The Lays of My Land), 1896; p. 38.

Recorded sources:

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