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JIGUE TENFANT. French-Canadian, Jig. The piece comes from Montreal fiddler Jean Carignan's mentor, fiddler Joseph Allard, who learned it from his father. Tenfant was Allard's father's name and is probably a corruption of petit enfant or ton 'enfant', becoming t'enfant in casual speech.

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Recorded sources: Folkways FG 3532, Alan Mills and Jean Carignan - "Songs, Fiddle Tunes and a Folk-Tale from Canada" (1961)

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