Annotation:Honorable Colonel Hamilton's Delight (The)

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HONORABLE COLONEL HAMILTON'S DELIGHT, THE. AKA and see "Colonel Hamilton's Delight," "New Bumpkin." Scottish, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC'. Composed by Joseph Reinagle. The Gow's printed the tune again in The Beauties of Niel Gow, Part I, under the title "New Bumpkin."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Gow (Second Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1788, 3rd edition; p. 6.

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