Lamplighters Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Lamplighter's Hornpipe" is a New England tune also known as<br> "The Five Mile Chase" and in one instance is called "Lady Walpole's<br> Reel" although most versions of that are very different.<br> In Quebec it is known as "Reel à quatre". It is usually played in<br> G major but sometimes appears in A major.<br> I ran across this tune (as "Lady Walpole's Reel") in Good Morning,<br> a book of contra dance tunes and instructions published by Henry Ford<br> in 1943. After a lot of digging, I found that "Lady Walpole's Reel"<br> is usually a quite different tune. <br> I haven't found a recording of it under either title.<br> "The Lamplighter's Hornpipe" was printed in Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940)<br> and, as banjo tab, in Perlman's Melodic Clawhammer Banjo (1979).<br> The banjo tab is from Hank Sapoznik via Ken Perlman's book.<br>
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