Irish Piper John GeogheganNEW YORK HORNPIPE [1]. English, Scottish; Hornpipe. England, Northumberland. A Major (Kerr): C Major (Geoghegan). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Kerr): AABBCCDDEEFF (Geoghegan). One of the "missing tunes" from William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian manuscript. The tune is printed by Geoghegan as a triple time hornpipe, and by Kerr as a duple time hornpipe.
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Printed sources : - Geoghegan (Compleat Tutor for the Pastoral or New Bagpipe), c. 1745-46; p. 26. Offord (John of the Greeny Cheshire Way), 1985; p. 9. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 3), c. 1880’s; No. 353, p. 38.
