Annotation:Herring Buss (The)
X:1 T:Herring Buss, The M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Country Dance Tune B:Hinton - Universal Magazine of Knowledge & Pleasure (November, 1750, p. 231) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:F C|FAd c2B|Acf e2d|ceb a2g|fge f2:| f|fga gfe|def {c}=BAG|c=Bc def|efd c2_B| AFc cBA|BGd dcB|Acf egb|abg f2||
HERRING BUSS, THE. English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The country dance tune was printed in London publisher John Hinton's long-running periodical The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (November, 1750, p. 231). A herring buss [1] (or, in Dutch, Haringbuis) was a type of seagoing fishing vessel, mostly used by Dutch and Flemish herring fishermen in the 15th through early 19th centuries.
