Annotation:Railway Hornpipe (2)

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RAILWAY HORNPIPE [2]. AKA and see "Steam Packet Hornpipe (2)." English, Hornpipe (4/4 time). England; Lancashire, Shropshire. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in a number of early 19th century musicians' manuscript collections, including those of John Moore (Shropshire, c. 1837) and James Nuttall (East Lancashire, c. 1830). It was collected by English musicologist Frank Kidson ("Swallows MS 57") in the latter 19th century as "Steam Packet," the title by which it also appears in the c. 1840 collection of Yorkshire musician Lawrence Leadley.

Source for notated version: a c. 1837-1840 MS by Shropshire musician John Moore [Ashman].

Printed sources: Ashman (The Ironbridge Hornpipe), 1991; No. 43, p. 15.

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