Annotation:Prince of Cobourg's Hornpipe
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PRINCE OF COBOURG’S HORNPIPE. AKA - "Prince of Cabourg's Hornpipe." English, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABA. Lincolnshire musician Joshua Gibbons originally set the tune in the key of ‘C’ major in his ms.
Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].
Printed sources: Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 22. Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 60.
Recorded sources: PUG CD 004, Brian Peters – “Lines.”