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