Cincinnati Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Cincinnati Hornpipe", also known as "Wobbly Ears", "Wobble Gears", "The Cork Hornpipe" and<br> "Harvest Home" is an American hornpipe in D Major. It is known in New England, Arkansas and<br> Missouri. The parts are played AABB. The first phrases of both the A and B parts are very<br> close to "Harvest Home".<br> The tune has occasionally been credited to "Fischer" without further explanation.<br> It has been used in New England for the dance "Lady of the Lake" and has sometimes been<br> called by that name. Instructions for a dance called "The Cincinnati Hornpipe" are printed<br> along with the tune in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883). It was widely disseminated and appears<br> in tradition among fiddlers from many parts of the East and Midwest United States.<br> The title appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by<br> musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. It was in the repertoires of Ohio<br> fiddler Estill Adams, Nebraska fiddler Bob Walters (b. 1889) and Missouri fiddler Kelly<br> Jones (b. 1947), who, having the ability to read music, learned this and other tunes from<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes, as previous sight-reading mid-western fiddlers had learned such<br> tunes from both Cole's 1000 and its predecessor, Ryan's Mammoth Collection.<br> It is printed in Burchenal's American Country Dances, vol. 1 (1918), Cole's 1000 Fiddle<br> Tunes (1940), Miller & Perron's New England Fiddler's Repertoire (1983), Gott's Old Familiar<br> Dances with Figures (1890/1918), Page's Ralph Page Book of Contras (1969), Page's Heritage<br> Dances of Early America, Phillips's Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995),<br> Silberberg's 93 Tunes I Didn't Learn at the Tractor Tavern (2004), Sweet's Fifer's Delight<br> (1964/1981), Tolman's Nelson Music Collection (1969), Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) and<br> White's Unique Collection (1896). <br> It was recorded by John McCutcheon on How Can I Keep From Singing (1975),<br> Bob Walters on Drunken Wagoneer and Kelly Jones on Authentic Old-Time Fiddle Tunes.<br>
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