Quince Dillon’s High-D Tune
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Quince Dillon’s High-D Tune" is an old-time breakdown from southwestern Virginia in<br> D Major. It was composed by Quincy Dillon (b. 1813) was a Civil War fifer who taught<br> the tune to fiddler Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia, near the West Virginia border.<br> Reed didn't remember its real name and gave it a descriptive title (the tune that hits<br> the high D). Evidently, it is the only tune attributed to Dillon to survive.<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983),<br> Frets Magazine, vol. 3, No. 7, July 1981,<br> Krassen's Appalachian Fiddle (1973),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) and<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002).<br> It was recorded by Allan Block on Alive and Well and Fiddling,<br> Jim Taylor on The Civil War Collection (1996),<br> Fuzzy Mountain String Band on Summer Oaks and Porch (1973) and<br> Alan Jabbour, James Reed, Bertram Levy on A Henry Reed Reunion (2002). <br>
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