The Bagpipe Society

Concerning Mr Tollett

A while ago, I was relistening to the fine CD ‘Love and a Bottle’, by the Bagpipe Society’s president Jon Swayne, and accordionista Becky Price. It is a fine CD, and one track in particular caught my ear, Mr Tollett’s Hornpipe, a 3/2 hornpipe (see over). The frontispiece of the 1701 edition of Apollo's Banquet, which contains Tollet's Hornpipe. The tune continued to be published after his death A man who writes such a fine tune, must have more up his sleeve, how is it that we don’t hear more of him?...

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