Annotation:Nelson's Hornpipe (2)
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NELSON'S (HORNPIPE) [2]. AKA and see "Bridge of Lodi (The)," "Down Back o' Shoddy," "Huntsman's Hornpipe," "Lochmaben Hornpipe," "Lord Nelson's Hornpipe (1)," "Miss Grimstrobs Hornpipe," "Murray's Hornpipe (1)," "Richer's Hornpipe (2)," "Saxon's Hornpipe," "Stage Hornpipe (4) (The)." English, Hornpipe. C Major (Hardings): G Major (Callaghan): D Major (Howe). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is a variant of a very popular and widespread hornpipe family that goes also includes "Huntsman's Hornpipe"/"Hunter's Hornpipe (The)," "Bridge of Lodi (The)," "Murray's Hornpipe (1)," and others, often honoring Horatio Nelson ("Lord Nelson's Hornpipe," "Admiral Lord Nelson's Hornpipe," "Nelson's Hornpipe"). It appears as "Nelson's Hornpipe" in key of 'G' in the music manuscript collections of the Browne family (Troutbeck, Cumbria), James Winder (1835, Wyresdale, Lancashire) and William Andrews (late 19th century, Sheepstor, Devon), and in the key of 'D' in the 1850 music manuscript (p. 19) collection of shoemaker and fiddler William Winters (West Bagborough, Somerset, southwest England). Leyburn, north Yorkshire, musician William Calvert had it in his 1812 manuscript as "Admiral Lord Nelson's Hornpipe." Dublin music publisher Maurice Hime printed it as "Richer's Hornpipe (2)" in his Hime's Pocket Book, vol. 2 (c. 1810, p. 22). See also fiddler Charles Baldwin's (c. 1822-c. 1920) "Gloucester Hornpipe (2)."
