Annotation:Egg Hornpipe

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 EGG HORNPIPE, THE. AKA and see "Fisher's Hornpipe." English, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. One of the most popular hornpipes in history, well known under the "Fisher's" title. It was perhaps named the 'Egg' by Gibbons (who set the tune in the key of F major in his manuscript-originally the key the tune was commonly played in) after the practice of some stage hornpipe dancers to strew the stage with eggs and dance among them without breaking any, to demonstrate skill and control.  Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].  Printed sources: Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 58.  Recorded sources:

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