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Stony Point

Traditional

Style
Old-time
Tradition
American, also Irish as "Pigtown Fling"
Form
Reel
Key
G
Level
2
Played on
Fiddle and Mandolin

In the public domain. Source

Music

100bpm

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History

It turns up all over the United States under different names: "Stony Point" ("Stony Point Reel" was a Pennsylvania title by 1866), "Pigtown Fling" in New England, "Wild Horse" and "Buffalo Breakdown" elsewhere. Boston publisher Elias Howe printed it in the early 1880s, and Ryan's Mammoth Collection of 1883 has it as "Kelton's Reel."

Many players take it for Irish, but it is not found in older Irish sources. In Donegal it is played as a highland called "Pigtown," and Ken Perlman reported it was first a Kerry polka. The first part is in G and the second in E minor.

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