Annotation:Bishop Auckland Flower Show Hornpipe
Tune properties and standard notation
BISHOP AUCKLAND FLOWER SHOW HORNPIPE. Scottish, Hornpipe. E Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by violinist W.B. Laybourn, who was originally English, and moved from the south to North Shields in the North of England, before removing to Edinburgh later in life. Laybourn was the editor of Köhlers’ Violin Repository, who is identified in the frontspiece only by the anonymous title "A Professional Player." Laybourn died around 1886, soon after the volumes were published.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Köhlers’ Violin Repository, Book 1, 1881-1885; p. 61)
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