Annotation:Caleb Quotem's Freak
X:1 T:Caleb Quotem's Freak M:9/8 L:1/8 R:Slip Jig O:”Irish” B:John Hall – “A Selection of Strathspeys Reels, Waltzes & Irish Jigs” (c. 1818, p. 12) B: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104981834 N:”Printed and sold by John Hall, at his Music Room.” N:Hall was a music teacher in Ayr, Scotland. N:Hall (1788-1862) was a music teacher in Ayr, Scotland. His dancing master’s ‘kit’ N:(a small fiddle) used in his dancing lessons, is still preserved. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G D|G2G BAG FED|GFG ABG FGA|G2G BAG FED|EFG AFD G2:| |:E|D2d- dcB cec|ABc {d}cBA G2F|GFG ABc dBG|EFG FAF {F}G2:|]
CALEB QUOTEM'S FREAK. Scottish, Irish; Slip Jig (9/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Caleb Quotem's Freak" is a slip jig printed in Ayrshire fiddler-composer biography:John Hall's c. 1818 collection of original and collected tunes, including a number attributed to Irish piper Walker Jackson. The slip jig is not one of the tunes so attributed, but Hall did mark it as "Irish" in origin. Caleb Quotem was the proper name of a character in George Colman Younger's play The Wags of Windsor (1800), but the name was in popular use (slang) for a parish clerk or a jack of all trades. Colman writes in verse:
