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The Drummer

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archived audio 0000-00-00 00:00:00 by tartaryfiddler
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Citation / Notes: played on JTL violin c.1920 2/24/25
history 2025-02-25 05:40:15 by tartaryfiddler
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Citation / Notes: DRUMMER, THE. AKA – "The Drummers." AKA and see "Good Morning to Your Night Cap (2)," "Jack the brisk young drummer," "Jack the drummer," "Piper o' Dundee (The)," "Taylor." Scottish, English, Canadian; Reel. Canada, Cape Breton. G Mixolydian (Senhouse/Offord): G Minor (Ross, Thompson): A Dorian/Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (most sources): AABB (Gow/Carlin, Offord, Ross). "Very old" note both Gow in his Repository (1802) and MacDonald in The Skye Collection (1887). Glen's (1891) found that the earliest printing of this popular melody occurs in Neil Stewart's Collection of the Newest and Best Reels or Country Dances, published in Edinburgh in 1761 (reissued in 1775). However, it appears much earlier in English publications,...

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