Annotation:Wallis' Humour in Tapping the Ale

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WALLIS' HUMOUR IN TAPPING THE ALE. Scottish, Country Dance Tune (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The melody appears in Henry Playford's 1700 collection of Scottish dance tunes. Wallis = Wallace?

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Playford (A Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes, Full of the Highland Humours), London, 1700; No. 29, pp. 12-13.

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