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PEERLESS HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Tin Wedding." American, Hornpipe. C Major (Cole, Phillips, Ryan): G Major (Miller). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A simplified version of the hornpipe was played by fiddler Vernon Riddle of Spartanburg, South Carolina. As a young man in the 1950's Riddle was stationed at an Air Force base in Amarillo, Texas, and for many years had the fortune to find and learn from a number of mid-20th century Texas fiddle greats, including Eck Robertson, Benny Thomasson, Jack Mears, and the Solomons. There were several tunes from Ryan's Mammoth Collection/Cole's 1000 in his repertoire, including "Peerless Hornpipe."

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Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 112. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 215. Miller (Fiddler’s Throne), 2004; No. 304, p. 180. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 149.

Recorded sources: -Compass 7 4416 2, Mick McAuley and Winifred Horan - "Serenade" (2006). Great Meadow Music, Bob McQuillen and Old New England - "ONE IV" (2009). Éalú - "Escape" (2012). "Don Messer Presents Piano Stylings by Waldo Munro" (1975. Waldo "Thumbs" Munro, 1930-2006, was the piano player for Messer's band The Islanders).

See also listing at:
Hear Vernon Riddle's 1993 field recording at Slippery Hill [1]


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