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X:1 T:Spadill M:2/4 L:1/8 B:Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (London, 1773) Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007 Z:abc’s:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Bb B2 d>f|e>g c>e|d>f B>d|(3cec (3AFA|B2 d>f|e>g c>b|(3agf (3cd=e|f2 F2:| |:(3f_af (3dfd|(3=BdB (3GBd|(3ege (3cec|(3AcA (3FAc|(3BFB (3dBd|(3fdf (3bfe|(3dcB (3FGA|B2 B,2:||

The Four Friends Playing Ombre by Malthe Engelstedt, Denmark, 1888. The player in the center is Rasmus Malling-Hansen, Danish inventor of the typewriter.

SPADILL. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Spadill" was originally published, with directions for a country dance, in London music publishers Charles and Samuel Thompson’s Compleat Collection, vol. 3 (London, 1773). “Spadill” later appeared in Longman and Broderip’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances (London, 1781), as “The Spadill.”

The Spadille was the name for the Ace of Spades in the card game called Quadrille or Ombre, and is the strongest trump card. Ombre or l'Hombre is a fast-moving seventeenth-century trick-taking card game for three players, ancestral to Euchre, and extremely popular in Europe in its many titles and configurations. It was probably introduced in England by Catherine of Braganza, the Queen of Charles II.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 78.

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