Annotation:Heather Bell Hornpipe (The)

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HEATHER BELL HORNPIPE, THE. English, Reel. England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by teacher, musician, composer, dancing master and fiddler Robert Whinham (1814-1893), originally from Morpeth.

Source for notated version: the C. "Kit" Liddell manuscript, from the late 19th century [Dixon].

Printed sources: Dixon (Remember Me), 1995; p. 20. Hall & Stafford (Charlton Memorial Tune Book), 1956; p. 60.

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