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Comment by Don Meade on May 6, 2016 at 7:55am

First one is usually called "The Liverpool Hornpipe" and the second "Dick Sands'" after the famous clog dancer. Keys are not the usual ones for fiddlers.

Comment by Wes Merchant on May 6, 2016 at 9:35am

The keys these in which these are written are a convention in banjo notation not necessarily the keys they were actually played in. Banjo strings could be pitched up or down to accommodate their vocals or other instruments. Here's a recent thread on that.http://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/forum/topics/pitch-and-tuning?id=2477...

Comment by Don Meade on May 6, 2016 at 6:03pm
Thanks for the reply.

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