The Avalon Quickstep reel

The Avalon Quickstep has been added to 9 tunebooks.

One setting

X: 1
T: The Avalon Quickstep
R: reel

Two comments

The Avalon Quickstep

A regular favourite at our monthly old-timey session in Bristol (UK).

It’s what is known as a “crooked” tune. The first part is a standard eight bars (repeated) - but the second part is ten bars (repeated) - thus making 36 bars in total.

A trap for the unwary - i.e. for backers or for melody players attempting to jam along with it when they’ve never heard it before!

Re: The Avalon Quickstep

I learned this tune in the 60’s from a Missouri fiddler who called it “Sally Knows her Onions”.

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