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