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X:139 T:Ton [2]. THO4.139, The A:England; London O: M:2/4 L:1/8 Z:vmp. Peter Dunk 2010/11.from a transcription by Fynn Titford-Mock 2007 B:Thompson's Compleat Coll. of 200 Favourite Country Dances Vol.IV. 1773-80 Q:1/4=160 K:A A2 cA|AGFE|A2 cA|e4|d2 Bd|c2 Ac|B2 cA|AGFE|A2cA|AGFE|A2cA|e4| B2 cA|B2 cA|G2TF2|E4::e2 ce|d2 Bd|c2 Ac|B2E2|Acea|a2 ga| bagf|e4|e2 ce|d2 Bd|c2 Ac|B2E2|[cC]EAc|FdcB|cABG|A4:|

TON [2], THE. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The Ton [2]" was entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England.

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Printed sources : - Longman & Broderip (Longman and Broderip's Compleat Collection of 200 Favorite Country Dances), London, 1781; p. 8. Charles & Samuel Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances vol. 4), 1780; p. 71. Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 325, p. 115 (ms. originally dated 1850).

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