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BILL ELLIS' HORNPIPE. Irish, Hornpipe. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. William 'Bill' Ellis was an Englishman and a violinist "of great versatility", and a teacher of a young James O'Neill in Belfast (along with James' father, John O'Neill, an excellent violinist, but a private man).
Source for notated version in print: Chicago Police Sergeant James O'Neill, a fiddler originally from County Down and Francis O'Neill's collaborator [O'Neill].
Printed sources: O'Neill (Krassen); p. 203. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903/1979; No. 1722, p. 320.