Annotation:Crotchet Lodge (1)
X:1 % T:Crotchet Lodge [1] M:C L:1/8 R:Reel S:John Rook music manuscript collection (Waverton, Cumbria, 1840, p. 233) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G G/A/|BGGB cAAc|BGFG A/G/F/E/ DG/A/|BGGB cAAc|dge^c d3:| B/c/|dBGg ecea|fdef g/f/g/a/ gB/c/|dBBB geea|fdef g2 fe| dBBB eccc|dBBB A/G/F/E/ DB/c/|dBBB e/g/f/a/ g/e/d/c/|BAGF G3||
CROTCHET LODGE [1]. English, Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody was included in the large 1840 music manuscript collection of multi-instrumentalist John Rook, of Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria. Crotchet Lodge was a two-act farce staged at the Theatre-Royal, Covent Garden in 1795, and was well-received. It was written by Thomas Hurlstone, little remembered today, but who wrote several comic plays for the London stage, flourishing in the first half of the 1790's.