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Thread #121777   Message #2663150
Posted By: Jack Campin
23-Jun-09 - 07:29 PM
Thread Name: metronome help
Subject: RE: metronome help
Dick has the conventions for hornpipe speed wrong. They're in duple time, two beats to the bar. So this:

Fisher's Hornpipe

which is taken at a pretty normal speed, has 64 bars of music in 88 seconds, which translates to 87bpm.

148-150bpm for a hornpipe is insanely fast if you mean 2 beats to the bar and much too slow if you mean 4 beats.