Annotation:Burns's Hornpipe

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BURNS'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Staten Island Hornpipe." Scottish, Hornpipe (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is well-known nowadays as "Staten Island Hornpipe." The title appears in a list of tunes in his repertoire brought by Philip Goodman, the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth, to the Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1898 (Breathnach, 1997), although the tune may not be the same. There are various hornpipes with the spelling 'Burns', 'Byrnes' or 'Birnes'.

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Printed sources: Köhlers’ Violin Repository, Part One; 1881-1885; p. 67.

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