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Here is another hornpipe that I learned from the Paddy O'Brien Tune Collection. It's his own composition called The Wayfarers in tribute to "wandering minstrels who stopped by to share a tune". It's in the lonesome key of G minor, so I decided to play it with a drone provided by my shruti box (look it up on YouTube) that I can work with a foot pedal while I play the concertina.

Here’s a couple of G major hornpipes I’ve been working out with my newly acquired Edgley Heritage C/G Anglo. I found the Ulster Hornpipe in O’Neill’s Music of Ireland. Surprisingly, it’s not on The Session at all. It’s online at the Traditional Tune Archive here – https://tunearch.org/wiki/Ulster_Hornpipe but with three typos in the ABC (three high Cs are bumped down an octave). Here’s ABC corrected based on my paper O’Neill’s – T:Ulster Hornpipe M:C| L:1/8 R:Hornpipe S:O’Neill – Music of Ireland (1903), No. 1599 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G dc|BGFG DGBd|cBAG FAGF|Ggfe dBAG|B2A2A2 dc| BGFG DGBd|cBAG FAGF|Ggfe dcAc|B2G2G2 :|| dc|BGBd gabg|abc’a gfed|egfa gbac'’|bgfg e^def| gbdg egBd|cBAG FAGF|Ggfe dcAc|B2 G2G2 dc| BGBd gabg|abc'’a gfed|(3efg (3fga (3gab (3abc'’|bgfg e^def| gbdg egBd|cBAG FAGF|Ggfe dcAc|B2G2G2|] I found the Salem Hornpipe in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, where it is credited to P.S. Gilmore. I have to admit I was unfamiliar with Gilmore until I looked him up last week. Through much of the 1870s and 1880s, he was America’s best known and most popular band leader. He wrote the lyrics to When Johnny Comes Marching Home. He was the leader of The Gilmore Band, the very first band ever to make a commercial recording on Edison Wax Cylinders. He introduced the custom of celebrating New Year’s Eve in New York’s Time Square. But early in his career, he directed the Salem Massachusetts Brass Band, and composed the Salem Hornpipe.

Here's a stage hornpipe from Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883). Ryan attributes it to Frank Livingston. The tune is apparently named for a ship, which is in turn named for the city in Georgia. But there have been several ships with that name, in both the U.S. & Confederate navies, and online sources disagree about which one Livingston may have meant. I’m playing my 40-button Wheatstone Edeophone 1934 D/A Anglo concertina. It took a good deal of trial and error to figure out how to finger this tune smoothly. I found that the Wheatstone 40-button layout was a real asset on this one. It lets me play the B-part with very few changes of bellows direction. It would be much harder to play with a Jeffries system instrument, or with only 30 buttons The online sheet music that most closely match Ryan’s is online at ITMA -- https://www.itma.ie/scores/ryans-0833/ There are some slightly different versions at The Session, with ABC notation – https://thesession.org/tunes/1607

Tailor's Twist is a traditional Irish hornpipe I learned from Randy Miller’s tune collection The Fiddler’s Throne. His version is quite similar to the first setting on The Session --https://thesession.org/tunes/996 Played on my 40-button Wheatstone Edeophone 1934 D/A Anglo concertina. I found Belle of Boston in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883). Ryan calls it a reel, but I think it sounds more like a hornpipe. Ryan attributes it to Boston composer Edwin Christie (not to be confused with Edwin Christy with a Y of the Christy Minstrels). The notes and ABC are online here -- https://tunearch.org/wiki/Belle_of_Boston

Hi everyone. It’s been a while since I’ve played and even longer since I posted anything here on concertina.net. Here’s one of my favorite hornpipes played on my Kensington. Hope you enjoy it. Constructive criticism always welcome! The Humours of Tullycrine.m4a

Here's an old hornpipe I first heard on Neal MacMillan's Northumbrian small pipes at a Zoom session during the pandemic. It was first Published in 1885 in Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music. I found the dots & ABC online here -- https://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=tunearch.org/wiki/Mrs._Wilson’s_Fancy_Hornpipe.no-ext/0001 Played on my 40-button Wheatstone Edeophone 1934 D/A Anglo concertina.

I've been busily replacing my computer with one that will tolerate Windows 11, through a labyrinth of downloads & tweaks & muttered curses. I haven't yet had time or courage to try recording on the new hardware. Meanwhile, here’s a July recording of a long-time favorite E minor modal hornpipe I found in O’Neill’s Music of Ireland, played on my 40-button Crabb G/D Anglo concertina. Dots & ABC are online at The Session here -- https://thesession.org/tunes/2079

Last night I recorded these two A major hornpipes from Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) on Youtube. Both are played (with just a few bobbles) on my 40-button Wheatstone Edeophone 1934 D/A Anglo concertina. The Dew Drop Hornpipe is apparently popular in Bluegrass world. Victoria Hornpipe should not be confused with another tune of the same name on The Session.

Here’s a another hornpipe I found in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection. Played on my 40-button Wheatstone Edeophone 1934 D/A Anglo concertina. (Oops! On the first time through I seem to have played the A part three times.) The notes and ABC are online at The Session -- https://thesession.org/tunes/8244

Here's a hornpipe in B minor by Scottish fiddler Brian McNeill, from his “Back o’ the North Wind” CD on the theme of Scots’ migration to America. The golden spike marked the completion of the transcontinental Railway in Utah in 1869, with many Scots among the railway workers. Played on my 40-button Crabb G/D Anglo concertina -- and I even use some of those extra buttons on this tune. The notes & ABC are online at The Session here -- https://thesession.org/tunes/5429

Here's an old-fashioned stage hornpipe by Matthew Heumann that I learned from his posting on concertina.net last year (Thanks, Matt!). Played on my 40-button Crabb G/D Anglo concertina. Matt's original recording on English concertina, along with music notation, is here -- https://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php?/topic/28298-the-imperial-hornpipe/#comment-239426 . I think Anglo vs. English gives the tune a slightly different feel.

Here's three hornpipes I found in O'Neill's Music of Ireland, all named for a legendary Irish fiddler called Spellan. Played (with just a few bobbled phrases) on my 40-button Wheatstone Edeophone 1934 D/A Anglo concertina -- and I even use some of those extra buttons on these tunes.

I found this unusual "Lancashire Clog" in the hornpipes chapter of Ryan’s Mammoth Collection of fiddle tunes from 1883. It’s credited to Edwin Christie (not to be confused with Edwin Christy with a Y, the founder of the Christy Minstrels.) Played (with just a few stumbles) on my 40-button Wheatstone Edeophone 1934 D/A Anglo concertina. The notes & ABC are online here -- https://tunearch.org/wiki/Belle_of_the_Stage I've tweaked the notes a bit here and there in my recording. In particular there's a typo in the online transcription which omits the final high A.

The Independence! Hornpipe, played on my 62 key Wheatstone Baritone Treble English Concertina! The Independence Cheers, Dick

A core repertoire of thirty two excellent hornpipes published in the early 19th century and recently transcribed to ABC by me have now been error checked and released into the wild. Blackman's Hornpipes.