Annotation:Jackson's Mistake
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JACKSON'S MISTAKE. AKA and see "Jackson's Bottle of Claret," "King's Jig (The)," "King of Jigs," "King of the Jigs." Irish, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was published in John Murphy's only collection of tunes, entitled A Collection of Irish Airs and Jiggs with Variations by John Murphy, performer on the Union Pipes at Eglinton Castle, issued in Edinburgh by the music publishing company of Gow & Shepherd. Murphy was a piper, as Francis O'Neill states, "whose talents secured him the enviable position of family piper to the Earl of Eglinton, at Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland"[1].
"Jackson's Mistake" is nearly identical to "Jackson's Bottle of Claret," printed in Dublin in the 1790's by Hime and C
- ↑ Francis O'Neill, Irish Minstrels and Musicians, 1913, p. 203.