Old Voile
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Old Voile", also known as "Old Viole", "Old Voyle", "Constitution Hornpipe",<br> "Farewell Mary Ann", "J.B. Miller's Reel", "Reel des chantiers" or "Reel du chauffeur" is an<br> American reel in cut time and D major.<br> The tune comes from Grant County, Kentucky,<br> and was recorded in Richmond, Indiana, by fiddler Frank Miller with the north-central<br> Kentucky group the Blue Ridge Mountaineers on April 3rd, 1929, for Gennett Records.<br> It was named after a man whose name was Viole Franks, a mail carrier<br> in Grant County who played the tune but had no name for it.<br> The tune was collected in Anderson County, Kentucky, under the title "Constitution Hornpipe"<br> and a close variant was similarly collected in Mississippi as "Farewell Mary Ann".<br> It was recorded by Blue Ridge Mountaineers (1929) (78 RPM), <br> Blue Ridge Mountaineers on Way Down South in Dixie and<br> The Monks on Let Us Play (1999, as "Old Voyle").<br> <br>
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