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OLD WILKINSBURG MARCH. AKA and see "Old Greene County," "Kramar," "Bittner," "Twelfth Virginia," "Mount Pleasant," "Old Number Two." American, March (2/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. The title for this fife march, which Bayard had not heard outside of Pennsylvania, comes from the Wilkinsburg Band, a fife-and-drum group from the city of Wilkinsburg, southwest Pennsylvania. "Twelfth Virginia" was listed by the source as an alternate title, and Bayard found variants among several fife groups in that part of the state.

Source for notated version: The Wilkinsburg Band, via Hiram Horner (fifer from Westmoreland and Fayette Counties, Pa., 1960) [Bayard].

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 387F, p. 370.

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