"The Banks", also known as "The Banks Hornpipe", "Banks of the River", "Parazotti", "Kinloch's Grand Hornpipe", "Morgan's Hornpipe", "Mrs. Taff" or "Souvenir de Venice" is a Scottish, Canadian and Irish hornpipe in E Flat Major (Scottish versions, primarily) or G Major (Black). The parts are played AAB (Black, Honeyman, Martin): AA'B (Silberberg): AABB (Brody, Hardie, Hunter, O'Malley, Skinner). The B part is 16 measures long. "Composed by Parazotti" is an ascription often found attached to this tune, sometimes called a 'descriptive hornpipe', or (by Skinner) a 'Classical hornpipe'. It has become a tune by which good fiddlers are judged and, as a virtuoso piece, is played by fiddlers from several different styles and genres. The tune was inspired by the sights and sounds of a river in flood. The melody appears first in print in 1881 in Köhlers' Violin Repository (Book 1) under the title "Mrs. Taff" (whom Hardie explains was a person who resided on the West coast of Scotland and was Parazotti's patron for a time. It is said she was the owner of the house in which Parazotti composed his tune). The piece is similar to the tune "Souvenir De Venice Hornpipe" in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883). "Souvenir" has also been credited to L. Ostinelli, an Italian who arrived in Boston in the year 1818. It was printed in Black's Music's the Very Best Thing (1996), Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983), Cranford's Winston Fitzgerald (1997), Honeyman's Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor (1898), Hardie's Caledonian Companion (1992), Hunter's Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988), Johnson's A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection (2003), Martin's Traditional Scottish Fiddling (2002), O'Malley's Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music (1976), Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002) and Skinner's Harp and Claymore (1904). It was recorded by Tom Doucet on The Down East Star (1975), Frank Ferrel on Yankee Dreams: Wicked Good Fiddling from New England (1991), Jean Carignan on Old Time Fiddle Tunes (1968), Andy McGann and Paddy Reynolds on My Love is in America: The Boston College Irish Fiddle Festival (1991), Sean McGuire on Ireland's Champion Traditional Fiddler, Tom Anderson and Aly Bain on The Silver Bow, Joe Cormier on Scottish Violin Music from Cape Breton Island (1974), J. Scott Skinner on The Strathspey King and Seamus and Manus McGuire on Humours of Lissadell (1980).