Annotation:Dew Drop Hornpipe

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 DEW DROP HORNPIPE. American, Hornpipe. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The 'B' part of this melody appears in the tune "Brilliancy." There was a variety house called the Dew Drop In in New York in the Civil War years.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 85. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 119.  Recorded sources:

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