Annotation:Trip to Bugland (A)
X:1 T:Trip to Bugland, A M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Benjamin Gardner music manuscript collection (1788, Marblehead, Mass.) N:Collection of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D E|ABA c2e|dBG Bcd|ABA c2e |ecA ecA| dfd cec|dBG Bcd|ecc dcB|A3 A2:| |:E|ABA g2e|dBG Bcd|ABA a2e|f2d e2c| dad cac|dBG Bcd|edc dcB|A3 A2z:|]
TRIP TO BUGLAND, A. American, March or Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "A Trip to Bugland" is contained in the rather small (23 tunes) 1788 music manuscript collection of fifer Benjamin Gardner, of Marblehead, Massachusetts. Around the year 1777 his father, a rope-maker, moved the family to nearby Salem, where he married, although he died a year or two later. His son Benjamin was known locally as "Fifer Ben" and played for the local militia companies. Benjamin also worked as a rope-maker, and eventually moved to Boston where he had a soap manufactory as well.
