Annotation:Quick Step 25th Regiment (2)

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QUICK STEP 25th REGIMENT. AKA and see “Ball’s Hornpipe,” “March W.S. Royals.” English, March (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Aird dedicated his collection to the “volunteer and defensive bands of Great Britain and Ireland,” a reference to the military units that sprang up in defense of the home islands during the wars with the French. See note for “Ball’s Hornpipe” for more.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1785; No. 25, p. 9.

Recorded sources:

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