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April 11, 2012

Forester’s Hornpipe – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 100

It’s day 100 and the Fiddle Tune for today is Forester’s Hornpipe. I don’t have any fancy story for it. It’s just the tune I felt like playing to day. Forester’s is a tune out of Cole’s 1000 fiddle tunes, and I think it has a nice melody. Enjoy.

 

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Foresters Hornpipe according to the Fiddler’s Companion

FORESTERS (HORNPIPE), THE. AKA – “Greenfields.” American, Canadian; Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Long a popular dance tune in the Canadian Maritimes and New England. It seems earliest published in a volume called M. Higgens’ Original Dances, Walzes & Hornpipes for the Violin (1829), where it appears under the name of “Greenfields.” In Canada it was popularised through the playing of radio and TV fiddler Don Messer, and The Cape Breton Symphony (Winston Fitzgerald et al).

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  1. Greg Fischer says

    April 11, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    Congrats and thanks! See you tomorrow 🙂

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  2. Mark Thomasson says

    November 24, 2013 at 9:08 pm

    Enjoying your daily tunes

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  3. Vi Wickam says

    November 26, 2013 at 3:23 am

    Thanks, Mark!

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  4. Michael Friedman says

    March 23, 2014 at 1:53 pm

    Wonderful musical performance !

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  5. Vi Wickam says

    March 25, 2014 at 11:33 pm

    Thanks, Michael. Just keepin' it fresh. 🙂

    Reply

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