The Mountain Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Mountain Hornpipe", also known as "Ice on the Pumphandle",<br> "The Mountains of Kerry", "Old Skeddadalink", "Doug's Favorite",<br> "Douglas's Favorite Hornpipe", "Shape's Hornpipe", "Hopple's Tune",<br> "Reel Maginot" or "Woody's Hornpipe" is an English, Irish and American<br> hornpipe in G Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> This hornpipe is probably of Irish provenance<br> (see "The Mountains of Kerry"),<br> although it has a long history in the United States.<br> Samuel Bayard found several versions in the repertory<br> of southwestern Pennsylvania fiddlers and considered it to be "at least a<br> little older" than the 1840's or 1850's.<br> It was published by Elias Howe in Boston as early as 1851 and continued<br> to be published in Howe's publications and later derivatives for some<br> ninety years.<br> It was in the repertoires of West Virginia old-time fiddler Melvin Wine<br> (who called it "Old Skeddadalink") and Maine fiddler Mellie Dunham<br> (the elderly Dunham was Henry Ford's champion fiddler in the late 1920's).<br> An untitled version ("Reel (26)") was published by Samuel Bayard in<br> Hill Country Tunes (1944), collected in 1943 from the playing of David<br> Gilpin, a southwestern Pa., fiddler.<br> It was printed in Bayard's Hill Country Tunes (1944),<br> Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> Cazden's Dances from Woodland (1955),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940) (appears as "Douglas' Favorite"),<br> Ford's Traditional Music in America (1940) (appears as "Doug's Hornpipe"),<br> Hardings' Original Collection (1928),<br> Hardings' Collection (1915),<br> Howe's School for the Violin (1851),<br> Howe's Diamond School for the Violin (1861),<br> Krassen's Appalachian Fiddle (1973),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984) and<br> White's Unique Collection.<br> It was recorded by John Baltzell (appears as last tune of "Durang Hornpipe<br> Medley") (78 RPM) (1923),<br> James Bryan on First of May (1986),<br> Grant Lamb on Tunes from Home (1974),<br> Melvin Wine on Cold Frosty Morning (1976),<br> Sarah Singleton on Old-Time Fiddling of Braxton County (1992),<br> Graham Townsend on Down Home Fiddling and<br> Grant Lambon on Manitoba Fiddler (1974).<br>
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