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ZODIAC. AKA - "Zudio." English, Waltz. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. Gibbons originally set the tune in the key of B flat in his ms. The melody also appears in the music manuscript of fiddler John Burk, dated 1821, (also set in B flat albeit in the time signature of 6/8), Joshua Gibbons (Tealby, Lincolnshire, 1823), and the T.J. Dixon copybood (Lincolnshire, 1798).

Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].

Printed sources: Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 82.

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