This month’s tune is ‘Hunt the Squirrel’, a tune that can be found in early editions of Playford’s ‘The Dancing Master’ and is often credited as originating from Sussex. Here it is played for teaching by the master of melodeon Andy Cutting: hunt the squirrel
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