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X:1 T:Concert Hornpipe, The T:Coutt's Concert Hornpipe M:C L:1/8 R:Hornpipe B:Kerr - Merry Melodies, vol. 2, No. 384 (c. 1880's) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:F |:c2|Acac Acac|Bcgc (Ac) a2|b2 a>b g>af>g|e>fd>e c2B2| Acac Acac|Bcgc (Ac) a2|b2 a>b g>af>g|e>d (3cde f2:| |:A2|a>ag>A f>Ae>A|d>Ad>f a>fd>A|^c>Ac>e a>ec>A|d>Ad>f a>fd>A| a>ag>A f>Ae>A|d>Ad>f a>fd>A|^c>Ac>e a>ec>A|d>Af>e d2:||

CONCERT HORNPIPE, THE. AKA and see "Coutt's Concert Hornpipe." Scottish (originally), Irish; Hornpipe. F Major ('A' part) & D Minor ('B' part) {Kerr, Craig}: B Flat Major & G Minor (O'Malley). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Accordion player Billy McElligott made an old recording of this tune. He, along with P.J. Conlon, Joe Flanagan and Tom Carmody, dominated accordion playing in the Irish dance hall scene of New York in the 1920s and 1930s.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - New York fiddler John McGrath [O'Malley]; banjo-mandolin player Noel Strange (1927-1970, Longford) [Treoir, 2012]

Printed sources : - Craig (The Empire Collection of Hornpipes), c. 1890's; p. 5. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), Glasgow, c. 1880's; No. 384, p. 43. Kerr (Merry Melodies for the Piano), p. 29. O'Malley (Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music), 1976; No. 130, p. 65. Treoir, vol. 44, No. 2, 2012; p. 31.

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