Annotation:Lightning Hornpipe (1)

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LIGHTNING HORNPIPE [1]. New England, Hornpipe. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. See also the Missouri variant "Lightning Hornpipe (2)." The melody was also in the repertoire of Rush, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, fiddler Jehile Kirkhuff (who won the 1954 World Championship held in Crockett, Texas).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Page (Ralph Page Book of Contras), 1969; p. 5.

Recorded sources: Condor 977-1489, "Graham & Eleanor Townsend Live at Barre, Vermont."

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear the tune played by Seattle fiddler Vivian Williams at Slippery Hill [2]




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