Annotation:Captain John's Hornpipe

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 CAPTAIN JOHN'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Captain Corbett's Hornpipe." Irish, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Learned in childhood from fiddlers" (P.W. Joyce, 1827-1914). O'Neill prints the tune as "Captain Corbett's Hornpipe" in Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody (1922).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 51, p. 28. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 1977; vol. 1, No. 27. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 2nd Edition, 2006; p. 113.  Recorded sources:

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