Great, Veda; I'm glad those were the ones you were after! The SF Scottish Fiddlers usually include 2 or 3 tunes in each issue of their monthly newsletter, which they've been publishing since 1986 or so; these generally consist of tunes taught at the Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddle School and other tunes written or submitted by club members. The tune sets for their concerts come from the archive of these tunes, which they make available to members for the cost of copying and mailing. I'm a club member (not a very active one though) and have the set, and at one point started transcribing it into ABC, mostly as an exercise to learn to write the code. I got a couple years into it and ran into some trouble trying to notate some complicated bowings (which ABC doesn't do well at) then put it aside to work on Robert Petrie's collections instead. Maybe I'll get back to it at some point, but right now I'm more interested in working on these old tunebooks which aren't available in other formats; however if there's anything specific you're after feel free to ask me.
Regarding the McDonald book, I think Taig na Teud at http://www.scotlandsmusic.com/ recently reprinted it. I don't know of a source in the US though. I wonder if Fiddler's Crossing ( http://www.fiddlerscrossing.com/ ) would have it? -Steve madfiddler wrote: > Steve > > Those are the ones I was looking for. Thanks! Saved me some time. I'd be > interested in any others from the SFSFs if you have them. Anyone have an > idea how I can get ahold of a copy of McDonald's Collection? > > veda -- Steve Wyrick -- Concord, California Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
