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Lord Nelson's Hornpipe (Tune from Greet Manuscript)

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Source: Greet Manuscript
Place Collected: Littleworth
Date collected: 1974

Greet manuscripts

 

The Greet manuscripts are a set of 21 tunes found, when working in his loft, by Peter Hill who was then living at Littleworth, Greet, near Winchcombe. They were entitled “a few favourite airs adapted for the German (ie transverse) flute”. Many are dance tunes.

Nelson’s Hornpipe See Chris Beaumont’s manuscript and also Charles Baldwin’s ‘Gloucester Hornpipe’.

 Notes by Charles Menteith and Paul Burgess