Annotation:Reefer's Hornpipe

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REEFER'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Ned Kendall's Hornpipe (2)," "Reel du chauffeur." American, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. The melody was entered into the 1859 music manuscript collection of W.E. Eames, a musician probably from Philadelphia, Pa., as "Reefer's Hornpipe." Dance instructions for Reeper's Hornpipe appear in George Washburn's The Ball-Room Manual of Contra Dances and Social Cotillons (1863).

Source for notated version: Ken Campbell [Phillips].

Printed sources: Guest (100 Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; p. 44. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 220.

Recorded sources: Banff ‎– RBS 1163, Graham Townsend - "International Fiddling Champion 1963."

See also listing at:
Hear Gramham Townsend's 1963 recording on youtube.com [1]



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