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JINRIKISHA. See related tune "Constitution Hornpipe (1)." American, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A jinrikisha is "a light two-wheeled hooded vehicle, drawn by one or more men. Shortened colloq. to rickshaw" [Oxford Dictionary]. 'A' part is the same as that of "Constitution Hornpipe" and an untitled Pennsylvania collected reel in F major in Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981, No. 138, p. 75.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 92. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 125.

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