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RANTING LADS OF SUNDERLAND, THE. English, Hornpipe (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune, credited to early 19th century Gateshead fiddler and publican James Hill, appears in a late 19th century music magazine called Kohler's Violin Repository.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Leybourn (Köhler’s Violin Repository vol. 2), 1881-1885; p. 117. Northumbrian Pipers' Association (The Fiddle Music of James Hill), 2005.
Recorded sources: Front Hall FHR-08, Alistair Anderson - "Traditional Tunes" (1976).