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LONDON MARCH. English, March (4/4 time). England; Lincolnshire, Yorkshire. G Major (Merryweather & Seattle): D Major (Sumner). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Merryweather & Seattle): AABB (Sumner). The first part of the tune, with a different strain, is "Scotch Hornpipe (1) (The)" and "March of the Third Regiment of Guards."

Sources for notated versions: an MS collection by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle]; the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].

Printed sources: Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddle of Helperby), 1994; No. 108, p. 60. Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 76 (originally set in the key of 'C' major).

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