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X:1 % T:Squire Fribble M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Country Dance Tune B:John Walsh – Caledonian Country Dances vol. II (c. 1737, No. 330, p. 70) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A (Ac)(Bd)|cefg|afed|ecBA| (Ac)(Bd)|cefg|aedc|B2 E2:| (eg)(fa)|gbge|^dfB=d|cecA| BGEd|cAfd|cBAG|A2 A,2:|]



SQUIRE FRIBBLE. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Squire Fribble was a creation of humourist Joseph Addision, writing in the periodical The Spectator.

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Printed sources : - John Walsh (Caledonian Country Dances vol. II), c. 1737; No. 329, p. 69. John Walsh (Fourth Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master), 1747; p. 17.

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