Annotation:Kipeen Scanlon's Hornpipe

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KIPEEN SCANLON'S HORNPIPE. Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by County Cavan/Philadelphia fiddler and composer Ed Reavy (1898-1988) in honor of fiddler Kipeen Scanlon, one of the fiddlers who was supposed to have had a profound effect on Sligo/New York Irish fiddle master Michael Coleman. Coleman is said to have told Reavy that Scanlon was the best fiddler in Ireland (Joseph Reavy).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Reavy (The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy), No. 116, p. 129.

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