The Telephone Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Telephone Hornpipe" is an American hornpipe in D Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> In 1876, Scottish emigrant Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be granted a United<br> States patent for a device that produced clearly intelligible replication of the human<br> voice. On March 10th 1876 the first successful telephone transmission of clear speech<br> using a liquid transmitter when Bell spoke into his device, "Mr. Watson, come here, I<br> want to see you." and Watson heard each word distinctly.<br> In 1877 the first permanent outdoor telephone wire was completed. It stretched a distance<br> of three miles. This was closely followed in the U.S. by the worlds first commercial<br> telephone service. In 1878 the workable exchange was developed, which enabled calls to be<br> switched between subscribers rather than having direct lines.<br> Some time after these events an unknown musician composed "The Telephone Hornpipe" to<br> celebrate the significance of the invention.<br> "The Telephone Hornpipe" was printed in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883) and Cole's 1000<br> Fiddle Tunes (1940). <br>
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