On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Jack Campin wrote:
> | > Hornpipes
> | > Jock Wilson's Ball
> |
> | 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.
>
And none of the one's the finder pulls off the web is the tune
that is known as Jenny Nettles in Cape Breton.. So many tunes :-)
Toby
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