Annotation:Feathers (2) (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
FEATHERS [2], THE. English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. This triple-time "Feathers" was printed in Glasgow by James Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. 3, 1788, and by T. Skillern in Skillern's Compleat Collection of Two Hundred & Four Reels...Country Dances (London, 1780). It also appears (as "the Feathers, A Quick Step") in John Fife's music manuscript copybook of 1780, written in Perthshire and at sea. There were a few other, different, period tunes also called "The Feathers." The Feathers seems to have been a popular name for an inn or pub.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 72.
Recorded sources: