Annotation:Rhine Hornpipe
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RHINE HORNPIPE. American (?), Hornpipe. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was printed by Providence, Rhode Island, musician, music teacher and music shop proprietor George Saunders, in his influential Instructor for the Violin (1847). The title may have been included due to the increasing numbers of German immigrants to the United States at the time.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 62. Saunders (New and Complete Instructor for the Violin), Boston, 1847; No. 69, p. 38.
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