Annotation:Castle Hornpipe (2)

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 CASTLE HORNPIPE. American, Hornpipe. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABC. A 19th century tune composed by King Colbath (?). Paul Stewart Cranford says the tune was popularised among Cape Breton fiddlers as a result of the influential recordings of Winston Fitzgerald, and identifies Colbath as a 19th century New England bandleader. King Colbath who was born in May, 1820, in Porter, Oxford, Maine, and married in 1845 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire. He was a violinist or fiddler. Source for notated version: Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 111. Cranford, 1997 (Winston Fitzgerald); p. 1. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 149. Recorded sources: Celtic CX 59, Winston Fitzgerald (appears in a medley with "Mrs. J. Walker" and "Sean Maguire's Reel", and was learned from Ryan's/Cole's). Rounder CD 11661-7033-2, Natalie MacMaster - "My Roots are Showing" (2000). See also listing at: Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index.

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