Annotation:Laybourn's Hornpipe

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LAYBOURN'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Köhler's Hornpipe," "Pachelbel's Frolics." Scottish, Hornpipe. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was an untitled hornpipe in Köhler's Violin Repository, a volume compiled by W. B. Laybourn. Paul Stewart Cranford says that Cape Breton fiddler Buddy MacMaster played it as a reel.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 75, p. 30. Köhler's Violin Repository (1881-1885).

Recorded sources:

See also listings at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [3]




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