Annotation:New Tatter Jack

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NEW TATTER JACK. AKA - "Tatter Jack." American, Quickmarch (6/8 time). B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A favorite fife tune among reenactment bands, sourced to George Bruce and Dan Emmett's Civil War military tutor written for the Union Army as a resource for training fifers and drummers.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bruce & Emmett (Bruce & Emmett's Fifer's and Drummer's Guide), 1862; p. 42. Hopkins (American Veteran Fifer), 1905; No. 28. Sweet (Fifer's Delight), 1965/1981; p. 20.

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