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POST HORN REEL. American, Reel. D Major ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. One of several tunes composed by one Frank Livingston contributed to Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883). Nothing is known about Livingston, who may have been a journeyman composer in the New York-to-Boston area.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 40. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 67. Sweet (Fifer’s Delight), 1965/1981; p. 70.

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