The Bagpipe Society

The Great Northern Tune Book, Revisited

Published in 2008 by EFDSS and NPS, and edited by Matt Seattle, this book presents the music from the William Vickers’ Collection of Dance Tunes (1770) – a manuscript currently held by the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne. The first edition of the Great Northern Tune Book was published in three volumes by Dragonfly music 1986-7. (Taken from the NPS website)

I don’t know how familiar people are with this book. I have been reading though it again recently and I just thought it was worth bringing back to people’s attention again. I have the original three volume version. It has 580 tunes in it!

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