Rickett's

hornpipe

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on September 6th 2001 by dfost.

This tune has been added to 52 tunebooks.

Also known as The Aldridge, Bottom Of The Punch Bowl ?, The Manchester , Pibddawns Aldridge, Pibddawns Wrecsam, Ricket's, Rickets, Rickett's, Ricketts, The Spanish, The Wrexham, Y Bibddawns Sbaenig.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Ballinasloe Fair: Early Irish Music In America by Various Artists
Barking Mad by Four Men And A Dog
Farewell To Ireland CD 1 (of A Box Set Of 4) by Various Artists
Humdinger by Paul Brock And Enda Scahill
Just Me And A Fiddle by The Flyin' Fiddler Wayne Cantwell

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Manchester hornpipe

in swansea, it's used to dance the gower reel, and phill tanner who dowdled the music for dancing, called the tune the liverpool hornpipe. the rest of wales calls in the wrexham hornpipe, (wrexham not being that far from liverpool)

variations were played in wales but under different names - the spanish hornpipe, seven, and the aldrige amongst others. the aldrige hornpipe is known in england but is a number of different tunes. also in england the tune is used by the bampton morris, in oxfordshire as a jig, called the fool's jig. aldrige is near birmingham but mr aldrige was a dancer who had several dance tunes including hornpipes and allemandes composed for him in the eighteenth century

as if that weren't confusing enough, there is another tune called the wrexham hornpipe in wales, which the people around that area in north east wales call the swansea hornpipe, which is near gower.

# Posted on May 7th 2004 by cerimatho

Leo Rowsome recorded this as the Manchester Hornpipe. It's a common tune in American fiddling.

# Posted on February 3rd 2005 by Kevin Rietmann

"Tro Llaw: A Collection of 200 Welsh Hornpipes"

Collected, edited and arranged by Robin Huw Bowen
National Library of Wales, 1987
ISBN: 0-907158-25-0

~ & those other names, as mentioned above, pages 47 & 48:

54.) "Pibddawns Wrecsam" / "The Wrexham Hornpipe"
~ & variants:
54a.) "Y Bibddawns Sbaenig" / "The Spanish Hornpipe"
54b.) "Saith" / "Seven"
54c.) "Pibddawns Aldridge" / The Aldridge Hornpipe"

# Posted on November 13th 2006 by ceolachan

"Rickett's Hornpipe" / "Sailor's Hornpipe" ~ a duplication from the future

Key signature: D Major
Submitted on March 15th 2007 by Falkbeer.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6947

With a few subtle differences ~
The Sailors Hornpipe #2 (~ ?)

R: hornpipe
K: D Major
|: (3ABc |
dcdA FAdf | edcB A2 fg | afaf bagf | edcB A2 fe |
dcdA FAdf | edcB A2 fg | afdg bgec | d2 d2 d2 :||
|: (3efg |
afaf d2 ga | bgbg e2 fg | afaf bagf | edcB A2 fe |
dcdA FAdf | edcB A2 fg | afdg bgec | d2 d2 d2 :|]

# Posted on March 15th 2007 by ceolachan

"Rickett's Hornpipe", and no, I don't have ricketts

Just having some fun with this, and I wouldn't necessarily do all this at once, as given, but here are some other ways with this old standard, first swung and then not. I did also, not notated, tend to throw in a 'snap' now and then ~

# Posted on March 15th 2007 by ceolachan