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The tune to this selection dates from the eighteenth century, an anonymous setting of an earlier poem by the English poet and dramatist Ben Jonson. It acquired a great following on both sides of the Atlantic in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.…

This tune, a mainstay of the fiddling repertoire, is speculated to be of European origin, and its variations have been known under the titles "Flop Eared Mule," "Detroit Schottische," and "The Bluebell Polka," among many others. Schnaufer performs…

David Schnaufer purchased this instrument from Terry Lewis of Kentucky, who in turn had obtained it from a woman in Kentucky in the 1970s. Schnaufer had placed a tag on the instrument with the following note: "Schnaufer/1820?/Trans/Indiana/Terry…