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TRIP TO COTTINGHAM. AKA and see “Garçon Volage Quadrille (2),” “Sally Sloane's,” “Village Boy Quadrille (The).” English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). England, Yorkshire. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. “Trip to Cottingham” must have been the hit tune of the 1830's, judging by the number of musicians' manuscript collections it appears in under its various titles. It can be found in the music manuscripts of Lawrence Ledley (1827-1897) of Helperby, Yorkshire, and in the c. 1800-1850 Browne Family manuscripts of the Lake District (other versions appear in the Brown mss. as “Le Garcon Volange” and “The Village Boy Quadrille”). English musician Johnny Adams says the tune inexplicably surfaced in Australia in the 1960’s played by fiddler and melodeon player Sally Sloane, and was called “Sally Sloane’s Jig” by local musicians. How this North Yorkshire tune remained in tradition to survive and be collected there is a mystery. The tune first appears in print by John Simpson under the title “Le Nouvell Fantasie,” perhaps an English imitation of a French tune (given that the grammar of the title is wanting). It also appears under the similar title “La Fantase” in the c. 1831 music manuscript of George Spencer, a musician from Leeds, West Yorkshire. Lionel Winship (Wark, Northumberland) entered it into his 1833 music manuscript simply as “A Quadrille.” The aforementioned Simpson had a music shop at 260 (later 266) Regent Street, London, from 1826 to 1869, and claimed to have invented the term flageolet. A double boxwood/ivory/silver flageolet with Simpson’s name and address resides at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia. Simpson also traded in concertinas and published a tutor in 1855 called Easy Method of Learning the Concertina by John Simpson, Teacher of the Flageolet. He formed a short lived partnership called Simpson and Wieppert toward the end of his life, that manufactured concertinas. The Wheatstone records indicate that he regularly bought Wheatstone instruments to sell at his shop prior to the 1850’s.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - an MS collection by fiddler Lawrence Leadley (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].

Printed sources : - Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 74. Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 85, p. 50.

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