The Cambridge Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Cambridge Hornpipe", also known as "Chief O’Neill’s Visit", "Old Cambridge",<br> "The Old Cambridge", or "Pacific Slope" is an Irish or Scottish hornpipe in<br> A Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> The American version is known as "Pacific Slope" and was printed in Cole's<br> 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940).<br> The high notes in the B part require the fiddler to shift to third position<br> which traditional fiddlers known only by intuition. The high E can be most<br> easily played as a harmonic and is noted as such in Cole's "Pacific Slope".<br> Cambridge was originally called Grantebrycge by the Anglo-Saxons, a<br> combination of the Old English name for bridge (brycge) with the inherited<br> Celtic name Granta. After the Norman Conquest the name became Cambridge.<br> It was printed in Taylor's Where's the Crack? (1989).<br> It was recorded by Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham on Another Musical Interlude,<br> Cherish The Ladies on Christmas in Ireland,<br> Curlew on Fiddle Music Of Shetland And Beyond and others.<br>
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