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UNKNOWN QUICKSTEP, THE. English, Quickstep march (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The original key in the mss. is ‘C’ major.

Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].

Printed sources: Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 7.

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