Carla and Bob Rogers wrote: > > Well, the place I've gotten the greatest number of tunes from is Jack's > ABC tunefinder. > > As an aspiring fiddler, "Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century" is a > great book to read. I think it's out of print. It has numerous examples > of tunes, supposedly generally true to the original. > > There was a seemingly aborted discussion about two days ago regarding > "The Gow Collection of Scottish Dance Music" -- Allegation "The music > has little to do with the Gows". Rebuttal: "The forward claims the tunes > are largely unedited from the originals". I am very curious about this, > since I bought the book based on this claim in the forward. Comments? US > ISBN=0.8256.0307.2 UK ISBN=0.7119.0756.0. Now why do we need two > different *international*standard* book numbers for the same book? > > Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To >subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
That Gow collection is missing all of the 2nd book of Strathspey Reels and one other that I can't remember at the moment, so it's 2/3 of the Strathspey Reels. It also misquotes several titles, which makes it difficult to find out if other tunes are missing, too, and there were a few I couldn't find. It contains nothing from the Complete Repository series. Bruce Olson Roots of Folk: Old British Isles popular and folk songs, tunes, broadside ballads at my website <A href="http://www.erols.com/olsonw";> Click </a> Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
