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X: 224 % was #207 (in ?ed.1?)
T: the Four-Hand Reel
R: reel
%S: s:8x2 b:16(4+4+4+4)x2
B: Francis O'Neill: "Waifs and Strays" ed.2 p.121 #224
S: hathitrust.org
F: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044040672529&view=1up&seq=38&skin=2021
Z: 2000 Paul Kinder <Ptk12142@aol.com> (bass transcribed by John Chambers 20220818)
S: Capt. F. O'Neill
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: G
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% Voice 1 reformatted for _ _-bar lines, for compactness and proofreading.
V: 1 staves=2
"^A"[|](3(DEF) !segno!||\
TG2BG dGBG | FADA FADA | G2BG dGBd | egfa gedB ||
 G2BG dGBG | FADA FADA | G2BG dcBd | egfa "^fine"g2 |]
"^B"[|]\
(3(def) | gdBd edBd | gdBd Te2ef | gdBd edBd | egfa g3 ||
      d | gabg efge | dedc BGBd | Tedef edBd | egfa gedB |]
"^C"[|\
G2BG dcBG | (3(FED) AD BDAD | G2BG dcBd | egfa gedB ||
G2BG dcBG | (3(FED) AD BDAD | G2BG dcBd | egfa g2 |]
"^D"[|]\
(3(def) | Tg2gf gdBd | faag fdef | Tg2gf gdBd | (3(efg) af g3 ||
      d | gabg  efge | dedc BGBd | Tedef edBd | (3(efg) af ged"^D.S."B |]
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% Voice 2 preserves the staff layout in the book.
V: 2 clef=bass middle=d
z2 !segno!||\
[G2g2][b2d'2] g2[b2d'2]| d2[f2a2] A2[f2a2] | G2[g2b2] d2[g2b2] | c2[d2c'2] [g2b2]z2 || G2[b2d'2] g2[b2d'2] | d2[f2a2] A2[f2a2] |
G2[b2d'2] g2[b2d'2] | c2[d2c'2] "^fine"[g2b2] |] z2 | [G2g2][g2b2] d2[g2b2] | G2[g2b2] c2[g2c'2] | G2[g2b2] d2[g2b2] | c2[d2c'2] [g3b3] || z |
G2[g2b2] c2[e2c'2] | G2[g2b2]d2[g2b2] | c2[g2c'2] G2[g2b2] | c2[d2c'2] [g2b2]z2 |] G2[b2d'2] g2[b2d'2] | d2[f2a2] A2[f2a2] |
G2[b2d'2] g2[b2d'2] | c2[d2c'2] [g2b2]z2 || G2[b2d'2] g2[b2d'2] | d2[f2a2] A2[f2a2] | G2[b2d'2] g2[b2d'2] | c2[d2c'2] [g2b2] |] z2 | [G2g2][g2b2] d2[g2b2] |
d2[f2a2] A2[f2a2] | G2[g2b2] d2[g2b2] | c2[d2c'2] [g3b3] || z | G2[g2b2] c2[e2c'2] | G2[g2b2] d2[g2b2] | c2[g2c'2] G2[g2b2] | c2[d2c'2] [g2b2] "^D.S."z2 |]
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%% "The Four Hand Reel" as far as the writer is aware was first brought
%% to Chicago in 1886 by Barney Delaney, an excellent Irish piper. So
%% versatile was he, like most great Irish musicians, in the manipulation
%% of his instrument, that he varied his tunes according to fancy
%% without detriment to tone or rhythm, but rather to the advantage of
%% the general effect. Although not included in any collection of Irish
%% music published beyond the Atlantic, the strain must have been quite
%% popular in the Eastern States, for we find the tune in a Boston
%% publication no less than four times, and named respectively:
%% "Corporal Casey's Favorite", "Lady Gardner's Reel", "Parnell's Reel",
%% and "Yellow-Haired Laddie"; all consisting of but two parts each.
%%endtext
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%% The setting here presented was memorized from Delaney's playing,
%% but no bare scoring of measured bars could do justice to his
%% inimitable execution.
%%endtext
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%% Since the foregoing was written I find that "The Five Mile Chase"
%% in R.M. Levey's Second Collection of the Dance Music of Ireland,
%% London, 1873; consisting of but two parts, is also a variant of
%% "The Four Hand Reel".
%%endtext