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BUTTON HOLE. AKA - "Buttonhole (2) (The)," "Button Hole March (The)." Irish, March (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The march was entered into several late 18th century and early 19th century fifers' and drummers' manuscript collections,
Additional notes
Source for notated version : - the manuscirpts of the 19th century Belfast collector Edward Bunting (1773–1843) [Heymann].
Printed sources : - Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 2), 1785; No. 102, p. 37.
Heymann (Secrets of the Gaelic Harp), 1988; pp. 114–115.
Howe (The Musician's Companion, vol. 2), Boston, 1843/1850; p. 10.
Elias Howe (Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7), Boston, 1880-1882; p. 633. Alvan Robinson (Massachusetts Collection of Martial Musick''''), 1818; p. 43.
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