Annotation:Palmetto Hornpipe

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PALMETTO HORNPIPE. American, Hornpipe. A Major ('A' part) & E Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Perhaps the title refers to South Carolina's official State Tree, the Sabal Palmetto, which honors the repulse of a British attack on Sullivan's Island on June 28th, 1776, when a palmetto-log fort, under Colonel William Moultrie, withstood the barrage of British cannons until the fleet retreated.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 95. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 127.

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