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JOHN OF PARIS - NEW WAY. English, Jig. F Major (Gibbons): D Major (Sumner). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBAA. Gibbons set the tune in the key of 'F' major in his manuscript.

Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].

Printed sources: Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 68.

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