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CHANGE ALLEY. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Change Alley was originally called Exchange Alley and was located not far from the Royal Exchange. It was the location of several famous London coffeehouses, including Garraways (frequented by merchants and medical men) and Jonathan's (patronized by Stock-jobbers, and also astronomers, including Edmund Halley {Halley's Comet} and Robert Hooke).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Preston (Preston's Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1800), 1800.

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