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EAST INDIAN. English, Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The jig appears in Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year (1783, p. 63) and their Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5) (London, 1788, p. 63).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 37. Thompson (Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1783), 1783; p. 63. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5), 1788; No. 126, p. 63.
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