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DAY'S WHIM. English, Triple Hornpipe (3/2 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. In addition to Daniel Wright's 1740 collection (published in London by John Johnson), the tune also appears in John Walsh's The Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (London, 1735, p. 147, and the later edition of 1749, p. 145).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Wright (Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances), 1740; p. 43.

Recorded sources:




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