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HORNPIPE

“I had a slight obsession with learning the tin whistle, and one of the things that you'll come across when learning Scottish/Irish tin whistle repertoire is a bunch of hornpipes! Not sure what qualifies a tune as a hornpipe, but they all seem to end with the same 'da da DA!'”

Found on Day 110

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