Annotation:Hopkin's Hornpipe

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 HOPKIN'S HORNPIPE. English, Hornpipe. England, Yorkshire. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody is earliest found in the mid-18th cent. music manuscript collection of fiddler Lawrence Leadley (Yorkshire). How the melody traveled to the United States, to be published by the Elias Howe concerns is unknown.  Source for notated version: a MS collection by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].  Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 115. Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddle of Helperby), 1994; No. 37, p. 38. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 152.  Recorded sources:

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