Annotation:May Banks Reel
X: 305610 T: MAY BANKS REEL C: %R: reel B: Elias Howe "The Musician's Companion" Part 3 1844 p.74 #3 S: http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Musician's_Companion_(Howe,_Elias) Z: 2015 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: 2/4 L: 1/16 K: D % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |:D2-DA FDdF | E2Ee ^GEeg |fdec dBc[cA] | GBAG DD/D/D :| |:abag dfag | gebe gebe |abaf dfaf | gfaf dd/d/d | abaf dfaf | geae geae |dfeg fbdc | e>BA>F DD/D/D :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
MAY BANKS REEL. American (?), Irish; Reel (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Researchers Fr. John Quinn and Conor Ward find the two parts of "May Banks Reel" to be cognate with the second and third strains of the Irish reel "Humors of Ballyconnell (1) (The)."
