Annotation:Pear Tree (The)
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PEAR TREE HORNPIPE. Scottish, Hornpipe. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is attributed to Tyneside fiddler and composer James Hill, in Kohler’s Violin Repository (Edinburgh, 1881-1885). The Pear Tree was a pub in Tyneside (see also “Hawk (The)”, another Tyneside establishment).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Honeyman (Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor), 1898; p. 50.
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