Annotation:Old Number Third
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OLD NUMBER THIRD. American, March or Reel (4/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Bayard's source's father learned the tune as a boy during the Civil War era and passed it onto his son. Bayard is of the opinion it could have been a fife march as well as a fiddle tune.
Source for notated version: Hogg (fiddler from southwestern Pa., 1948) [Bayard].
Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 134, p. 74.
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