Annotation:O'Dwyer's Hornpipe (2)

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O'DWYER'S HORNPIPE [2]. AKA and see "Fisher's Hornpipe," "The Blacksmith's Hornpipe," "Sailor's Hornpipe [2]," "The First of May [2]," "Wigs on the Green" (these are mostly floating titles"). Irish, Hornpipe. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title appears in a list of tunes in his repertoire brought by Philip Goodman, the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth, to the Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1898 (Breathnach, 1997).

Source for notated version: piper Denis Delany (Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, Ireland) [Darley & McCall].

Printed sources: Darley & McCall (The Darley & McCall Collection of Traditional Irish Music), 1914; No. 29, p. 12.

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