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QUICK STEP OLD BUFFS. Scottish, English; March (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The Old Buffs" was the nickname of the 3rd Regiment of Foot [1], said to have originated from the adoption in the 17th century of soft-leather buff coats for use when the regiment saw service in the Netherlands. Although the buff coats gave way to the army red-coat, the regiment retained buff-colored facings and waistcoats as uniform distinctions and wore equipment of natural buff leather (rather than pipe-clayed white or other regiments). They were one of five regiments given the "Freedom of London" by Royal Warrant, to march through the city with drums and fixed bayonets to recruit.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1), 1782; No. 16, p. 6.

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