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Jack Campin wrote:
| > Hornpipes
| > Jock Wilson's Ball
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| I thought this was a reel? Do you play it dotted? (BTW, its
| parent tune, "Jenny Nettles", used to be a three-parter. Has
| anybody come across it set that way in a performance, recording
| or printed source of the last 100 years?)
If you ask my tune finder, it will list 25 copies of Jenny Nettles.
The last one has three parts. This isn't surprising; it's one of the
Village Music Project's files, and lists the source as an 1823
publication. I don't think I've ever hear the third part. It does fit
with the rest of the tune, and by sufficiently strething your brain,
you could hear it as a variant of the second part.
Their web site is at:
http://www.salford.ac.uk/media/research/vmpaims.htm
They are transcribing a lot of old manuscripts into ABC and putting
them on the web. There's a lot of interesting stuff there. When I
first learned of them about a year ago, they had around 250 tunes
transcribes; there are now 1083 (with 1231 titles). There is, not
surprisingly, a lot of material that will be familiar to those
playing Scottish and Irish music.
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