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ABEL BROWNING BREAKDOWN IN 'A'. Old‑Time, Breakdown. USA, Pa. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Samuel Bayard transcribed this tune from the playing of Walter Neal in 1952. Neal at the time was a middle-aged man who had lived all his life near Mayport, Armstrong County, western Pennsylvania. See also another tune from Neal, also learned from his souce Abel Browning, called "Talk:Abel Browning Tune."

Source for notated version: Walter Neal (Pa.), 1952.

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 364, p. 358.

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