- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- American old-time
- Form
- Reel
- Keys
- A and D
- Level
- 4
- Played on
- Fiddle
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Music
90bpm
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Chord chart
History
A chinquapin is a dwarf chestnut, and chinquapin hunting means gathering its small nuts. Several different tunes go by "Chinquapin" or "Chinky Pin," and some versions are so far apart they hardly seem related.
Many players today learned it from Virginia fiddler Norman Edmonds. Kentucky fiddler Hiram Stamper had his own version, which he thought went back at least to the Civil War. It is usually played in A with the fiddle cross tuned to AEae.