Tune Identification Time!

[whistlecollector]

Since we don't have a Chiff & Fipple Traditional Piano & Comic Dance forum, I figured I might as well ask here in hopes of netting an answer from the broadest group.

So I came across this lovely hornpipe and am wondering by what title(s) it goes by.

Thanks!

[pancelticpiper]

Wow how strange.

The tune does sound like it could be a traditional hornpipe but it doesn't ring a bell.

Well I guess that dancing is no more strange than the Sailors Hornpipe as done by Scottish Highland dancers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBU0z3xdC0o

[bigsciota]

It's a tune called Durang's Hornpipe, which American dancer John Durang used to dance to:

https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Du ... rnpipe_(1)

Durang was a supposedly favorite of George Washington's, and credited as the first famous American dancer. The hornpipe was his signature dance, and it looks like he wrote this particular hornpipe himself:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... Ditson.png

The dancer in the video you posted is Wayne Sleep, a well-known British dancer who trained in ballet, and between that and the video being a sort of historical reconstruction of an American dancer from the 18th century, it's not going to look like dancing an Irish hornpipe at all!

[Mr.Gumby]

One of those tunes that found its way to Sliabh Luachra and started a new life there, as a reel.

[pancelticpiper]

One of those tunes that found its way to Sliabh Luachra and started a new life there, as a reel.

Though called a hornpipe, it's a reel here too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdufdJL5NUE