Annotation:Old Wilkinsburg March

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OLD WILKINSBURG MARCH. AKA and see "Old Greene County," "Kramar," "Bittner," "Twelfth Virginia," "Mount Pleasant," "Old Number Two." American, March (2/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. The title for this fife march, which Bayard had not heard outside of Pennsylvania, comes from the Wilkinsburg Band, a fife-and-drum group from the town of Wilkinsburg, southwest Pennsylvania.

Source for notated version: The Wilkinsburg Band, via Hiram Horner (fifer from Westmoreland and Fayette Counties, Pa., 1960) [Bayard].

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 387F, p. 370.

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