Annotation:Nixon No. 2

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NIXON NO. 2. American, March (2/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is a version of the famous Welsh air "Gorhoffedd Gwyr Harlech" (March of the Men of Harlech (The)).

Source for notated version: From legendary Fayette County fifer Ananias Bittner via Lloyd Grimm (Greene and Westmoreland Counties, Pa., 1960), Mount Pleasant Tablatures (Pa., 1950's) [Bayard].

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 192, pp. 149-150.

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