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The Burn Deviot

hornpipe

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on November 9th 2006 by nicholas.

This tune has been added to 13 tunebooks.

Also known as The Burn Divot.

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X: 1
T: Burn Deviot, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
(3Bc^c|:(3dBd b>f a>g d>B|c>E G>c B2 A>G|F>G A>B d>B g>B|A>d (3^cde d2 (3Bc^c|
(3dBd b>f a>g d>B|c>E G>c B2 A>G|F>G A>B d>B (3cBA|1 G2 G2 G2 (3Bc^c:|2 G2 G2 G2 zB||
|:(3cBc a>g b2 a>f|g2 B>e d2 B>G|F>d E>c D>B A>G| F>G A>B (3cec A>B|
(3cBc a>g b2 a>f|g2 B>e d2 B>G|F>d E>c D>B (3AGF|1 G2 G2 G2 zB:|2 G2 G2 G2 z2||

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The Burn Deviot sheetmusic
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"The Unknown Hornpipe"

I got this one off a compilation of Northumbrian music ("Bonny North Tyne", perhaps..) and think it was down by the above title; at any rate, I don't remember coming across a name for it. I think it was played on a piccolo or whistle (Billy Ballantine?), and it certainly makes a beautiful whistle tune.

# Posted on November 9th 2006 by nicholas

I have 'Bonny North Tyne' - I must dig it out. But I don't recognise this tune - I'm sure I would have remembered such a nice tune if it were on there.

# Posted on November 10th 2006 by ragaman

"The Unknown Hornpipe" - It's called "The Burn Deviot"

This tune is in "Northumbrian Pipers' Second Tune Book" as "The Burn Deviot", written by George Hepple. I think he was a Northumberland fiddler.

# Posted on November 10th 2006 by nicholas

The Burn Deviot Hornpipe

"Burn" is the word for "stream" in Northumberland, most of County Durham and throughout Scotland where the placenames are in English as opposed to Gaelic. (It comes from Anglo-Saxon; in other parts of Northern England where there was more Scandinavian settlement, the word used is "beck".) But one expects the particular name of the stream to precede the word - "Rowley Burn", e.g. If "The Burn Deviot" refers to a stream, the arrangement of the words is a usage I haven't come across.

# Posted on November 11th 2006 by nicholas

Burn Deviot

I have hand-written sheetmusic for this, and the version is a bit different to yours, Nicholas.

X: 1
T: The Burn Deviot Hornpipe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
B>c|(3d^cd b>f a>gd>B|c>GE>G B2A>G|F>GA>B d>Bg>B|A>df>e d>cB>c|
(3d^cd b>f a>gd>B|c>GE>G B2A>G|F>GA>B d>B (3cAF|G2B2 G2:|
|:A>B|(3cBc a>g b2a>f|(3gag B>e d2B>G|F>dE>c D>BA>G|E>GA>B d>cA>B|
(3cBc a>g b2a>f|(3gag B>e d2B>G|F>dE>c D>BA>F|G2B2 G2:|

# Posted on May 27th 2007 by Dow

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