Annotation:Hopping John
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HOPPING JOHN. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, western North Carolina. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune features slides and staccato which is meant to suggest hopping. The tune was in the repertory of Swannanoa, N.C., fiddler Marcus Martin.
Source for notated version: Bill Hensley [1] (?-1960, Asheville, western North Carolina) [Milliner & Koken, Phillips].
Printed sources: Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 305. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), 1994; p. 114.
Recorded sources:
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Hear Bill Hensley's c. 1940's recording at Slippery Hill [2]