Annotation:Yarmouth Breakdown
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YARMOUTH BREAKDOWN. AKA - "‘Percy Brown’s Step Dance." English, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Yarmouth is a town in Norfolk, east England. Callaghan (2007) calls the tune a “classic East Anglian step-dance hornpipe.” Reg Hall (liner notes, Topic TSCD659) says the tune is “a lovely example of the un-dotted English hornpipe, very much in vogue in East Anglia throughout most of the 20th century, and probably dating from the 19th.”
