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UNCLE HERMAN’S HORNPIPE. AKA - "Herman's Hornpipe." AKA and see “Hirams’s Hornpipe,” “Miss Supertest’s Victory Reel.” American, Hornpipe. USA, Texas. D Major (‘A’ part) & A Major (‘B’ part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Jack Tuttle/Fiddler Magazine): AA’BB’CC’ (Phillips). The tune is well-known among Texas-style fiddlers, though it apparently started out as a Canadian tune called “Miss Supertest’s Victory Reel,” composed by John Durocher.

Source for notated version: Benny Thomasson (Texas) [Phillips].

Printed sources: Devil's Box vol. 18, No. 1, 1984; p. 8. Fiddler Magazine, Spring 1994; p. 25. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 229.

Recorded sources: Barbara Lamb – “Fiddle Fatale.”

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
See/hear the tune played by fiddler Vi Wickham on youtube.com [2]

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