Annotation:Pretty Dick's Hornpipe

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PRETTY DICK'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Smiling Dicky's Hornpipe (2)." English, Hornpipe. England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears as "Smiling Dicky's Hornpipe (2)" in the mid-19th century music manuscripts of Helperby, Yorkshire, musician Lawrence Leadley.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Northumbrian musician William Vickers' 1770 music manuscript collection [Seattle].

Printed sources : - Seattle (Great Northern Tune Book/William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 328.

Recorded sources: -

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