NOTES ON MY WINDER TRANSCRIPTIONS See my general comments at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/misc.tml#other_notes (the gist is, I've tried to copy things as they were in the original). These are transcriptions of handwritten material. Some tunes were not easy to read, so I've had to make more "editorial" decisions than I like. Others, while readable, seem strange, even nonsensical; in extreme cases I've offered comment and suggestions. I've tried to mark all these cases - the copies I worked from are online, so you can check for yourself if you feel it necessary. Here is how I've dealt with the various musical elements :- * Key Signatures :- Several of the key-signatures are "interesting" to a modern English ear, but they are copied as-is (with a minor pedantic note - it's not possible to write ABC without giving a key-signature, so a "C major" in the ABC source may actually imply that I couldn't see whether there was a keysig or not - a misaligned photocopy, an ink-smudge, or some such). * Time Signatures :- Not all time-signatures in the manuscripts correspond to the way the tune is barred - I have sometimes "corrected" this, with a note indicating what I've done. Sometimes the time-signature and barlines are consistent, but, again, create an "interesting" rhythm to modern ears - particularly notable is a number of tunes that I know as 3/2 hornpipes, but which are written in 4, while others are written as we have them now, in 3. I don't know if the writers intended anything by this distinction, so again, I've left these as-is, sometimes with a note suggesting the alternate rhythm. * Text :- many of the titles contain what seem to be comments and opinions - "This is the best way of playing Chester Hornpipe", "Mistress Creasey A Good Tune", "Billy's a Bonny Lad a gud Reel". Mostly I have separated these out and printed them under the tune rather than regard them as a part of the title proper, though I have occasionally left them, where they seem to refer to a dance - "Barley Raking a Reel or Jigg", for example. A few tunes have instructions for dance written along with them; these are also printed under the tune, where I could make them out, and if I haven't been able to read them I've put a note to that effect. * repeat markings - in many cases, the final ending of a tune is marked with a double-facing repeat (":||:") as if there was more to come. I don't know whether this had any intended meaning or not, but have copied it anyway. * the original beaming of tailed notes is *mostly* preserved, but I have occasionally interfered with this for the sake of legibility. MY COMMENTS, ABC USAGE, ETC. Where my transcription differs from the original I have marked this with comments (both in the ABC source and printed under the "dots" of the tune in the images). In extreme cases I've ventured to suggest different "dots", which the images will show in smaller print. These annotations make heavy use of "user-defined" ABC header fields, for specific purposes. See