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