Annotation:Wood's Hornpipe

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WOOD'S HORNPIPE. English, Scottish; Hornpipe (whole time). G Major (Aird): A Major (Laybourn, Wilson). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. The melody also appears under the “Wood’s Hornpipe” title in the 1840 music manuscript collection of multi-instrumentalist John Rook, Wigton, Cumbria. It is nearly identical to the version printed in Kerr, save that the last measure of the ‘A’ part in the ms. goes |FGAB A4:|.

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Printed sources : - Aird (Aird's 6th and Last Volume of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs) 1803; No. 67, p. 26. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880’s; No. 356, p. 39. Laybourn (Köhler’s Violin Repository vol. 2), 1881-1885; p. 157. Wilson (Companion to the Ball Room), 1816; p. 140.

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