Annotation:Jimmy Linn's Hornpipe
Tune properties and standard notation
JIMMY LINN'S HORNPIPE. American, Hornpipe. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Can be used as a Clog" (Cole). Composed credited to a "J.L." in Ryan's Mammoth, presumably the self-same Jimmy Linn (about whom nothing is known). The tune was recorded by Cape Breton fiddler Winston Fitzgerald.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 92. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 125.
Recorded sources: John Campbell - "Timeless" (1999). Rounder CD 11661-7033-2, Natalie MacMaster - "My Roots are Showing" (2000). Richard Wood - "Fire Dance" (Wood is a fiddler from P.E.I.).