KIRK'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Soft Side Hornpipe," "York Hornpipe (1)," "West End (The)." Scottish, Hornpipe (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was entered into the c. 1850 music manuscript collection of Manchester, England, musician John Roose as "Birks", "Kirkgate" or "Soft Side Hornpipe."
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Honeyman (Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor), 1898; p. 46. Milne (Middleton’s Selection of Strathspeys, Reels &c. for the Violin), 1870; p. 42.
