Annotation:Myopia Hornpipe

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MYOPIA HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Babbit's Hornpipe," "Smith's Hornpipe (2)." American, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Myopia = nearsightedness. The tune appears twice in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) in nearly identical versions: as "Babbit's Hornpipe" and "Myopia Hornpipe."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 108. Miller (Fiddler's Throne), 2004; No. 301, p. 178. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 145.

Recorded sources:

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