Annotation:Velocipede Hornpipe

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VELOCIPEDE HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Highland Hornpipe," "High Level Hornpipe (1)." American, Hornpipe. B Flat Major ('A' part) & F Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Can be used as a Clog" (Ryan). A re-setting of Tyneside fiddler James Hill's famous "High Level Hornpipe (1)." A velodipede [1] was a 19th century bicycle, with pedals attached to the front wheel, knick-named the ‘boneshaker--descriptive of the experience of riding the contraption.

The Velocipede

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 110. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 147.

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