Annotation:Punchinello (1)
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PUNCHINELLO [1]. AKA – “Punchinello’s Hornpipe.” AKA and see "Flat Cap," “Jock and Tam,” “Lady Susan Montgomery's Hornpipe,” "Knives and Forks," “Rusty Gulley (2),” “Three Case Knives,” “Three Rusty Swords," "Wee Totum Fogg.” English, Triple or “Old” Hornpipe (3/2 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Offord): AABB (Callaghan): AABBCC (Howe). “Punchinello’s Hornpipe, or Three Rusty Swords” appears in John Offord’s late 20th century publication John of the Greeny Cheshire Way, another setting of which appears in the same volume as “Three Case Knives.” Punchinello, shortened to Punch, was a favorite puppet character for a few centuries. The name Punchinello is a variant of the names Pulcinella, Polichinello, Pollicinella and Polichinelle, and derived from the Italian pulcino, a chicken, which refers to the character’s beak-like nose and his chirpy voice. On the comic stage he was a servant, like the character Harlequin, in the Commedia dell’arte.
The melody is similar to "Dusty Miller (6).”
See also Edinburgh fiddler and writing master David Young's versions of the tune under the titles “Jock and Tam" and “Lady Susan Montgomery's Hornpipe.”