Annotation:Bang the Rattle
X: 1 T:Bang the Rattle. JHa.23 B:John Hall MS, 1833, Northumberland Z:Village Music Project 2016 Steve Mansfield M:C| L:1/8 Q:2/4=80 N:* z2 added by transcriber K:G dc | B>GBd BgdB | cBAG FGAc | BGBd gc'ag | f2d2d2 dc | BGBd BgdB | cBAG FGAc | BdGB cBAG | A2G2G2:| "*"z2 | |: fgab c'aaa | gabc' d'bbb | c'aaa bggg | a2d'2d'2 dc | BGBd BgdB | cBAG FGAc | BdGB cBAG | A2G2G2 "*"z2 :|]
BANG THE RATTLE. AKA and see "Ferry Bridge Hornpipe." English, Hornpipe (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. From the 1840 music manuscript book of John Rook (Multum in Parvo, or A Collection of Old English, Scotch, Irish, Welsh Tunes), a musician from Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria, north-west England. Rook was a multi-instrumentalist, judging from the cover picture of his collection, and played what appears to be the Northumbrian small-pipes, bugle, flute, fife and fiddle, among others, as he indicates the collection is "for his amusement on the above instruments."