Another thought:
For another way of thinking of these yodels, compare them to theme and variations, like "Carnival of Venice." For each of these tunes, everybody (Amish) in Adams County sings the tune, then does variations (the yodels). Everybody knows "Carnival of Venice, " nobody owns it, but Arbans wrote the best set of variations, but his might have been based on earlier ones. Fannie K. (the woman on the recordings) is the Arban of the yodels, but her versions only exist on records. Even if she owns her set of variations, which she might, does she own "Carnival of Venice?"
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