Annotation:Douglas's Favorite Hornpipe

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 DOUGLAS('S) FAVORITE HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Doug's Favorite," "Ice on the Pumphandle," "Mountain Hornpipe (1) (The)," "Mountains of Kerry (The)," "Shape's Hornpipe" (Pa.), "Hopple's Tune" (Pa.), "Woody's Hornpipe." American, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Cole, White): AB (Bayard). Bayard (1944) identifies this tune as a "quite well known dance air" generally known in published collections as "Douglas Favorite or "The Mountain Hornpipe." In local Pennsylvania tradition the tune showed considerable variation. In notes to the tune in his 1981 book Bayard thought it "at least a little older than the mid-nineteenth century."  Source for notated version: David P. Gilpin, Connellsville, September 22, 1943 (learned at Dunbar, Pennsylvania) [Bayard].   Printed sources: Bayard (Hill Country Tunes), 1944; Nos. 81, 82, 83. Cazden, p. 18. Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 102. Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; p. 71. Hardings Original Collection, No. 11. Howe's School for the Violin, c. 1843; p. 34. White's Unique Collection, 1896; No. 104, p. 19.  Recorded sources:

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