Annotation:Tamony's Hornpipe
X:1 T:Tamony's Hornpipe M:4/4 L:1/8 S:Joseph P. Tamony, San Francisco Z:Paul Kinder R:Hornpipe K:A cB|(3AcA EG Acec|dfBa gebg|aece fecA|GABc dBGB| (3AcA EG Acec|dcBa gebg|aecA GBed|(3cdc (3BcB A2:| |:cd|(3efe ce Acea|(3faf df Bgfg|ae^de fecA|GABc =dcdf| (3efe ce Acea|(3faf df Bgfg|aecA GBed|(3cdc (3BcB A2:||
TAMONY’S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Cooney's Hornpipe," “Friendly Visit (The),” “Smith's Favourite,” “Smith's Hornpipe (1).” Irish, Hornpipe (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Caoimhin Mac Aoidh (1994) explains that O’Neill’s source was a fiddler named Joe Timoney, known in Donegal as Joe Phaedar Sheain Ó Tiománaí, who was born and raised at Min a tSamhaidh, Fintown, Donegal, and who was the great-great-great-great-great grandson of the renowned poet Tadhg an Fhile O’Tionamai an Aighe. Timoney emigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century and arrived in San Francisco just after the great earthquake of 1906.
O’Neill (1922) calls “Tamony’s” a variant of “Smith's Hornpipe (1),” printed in his Irish Music for Piano or Violin.
