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?
> 
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Sorry, that Gow collection does contain the Complete Repository.

Bruce Olson 
 
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