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I have added the version in D to my site now:

http://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/tunes/zAmerican/GHI/Heart.html

Just to be clear, the links at the top of this thread are from seven years ago and no longer work. This link should allow you to download all five books:
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You can download it from here:
http://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/tunes/zWorld/PQR/RSorr.html

Strange - not sure why that is. Try the direct links:

Standard notation: http://www.nigelgatherer.com/pigpipe/tow-books/TOW_Book_5.pdf
mandolin tab:...

Free PDF Tunebook (Volume Five)

It has taken a few years, but Volume 5 is now out! This free PDF book (as well as volumes 1-4) can now be accessed from
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http://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/tunes/H/HectH/HectHt.pdf

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Here's a quick rendering of Tergal14's setting of the tune - hope it helps.

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I've been playing whistle longer than I have the mandolin, and I also teach classes in penny whistle. You can download the tutorial sheets from my class from...

One method was to use a device called a musical typewriter with which it was possible to produce pretty good notation. Another method was Letraset dry transfer sheets which involved painstakingly...

There's been a wee fall of snow here in Scotland which is threatening my trip to the South of England this weekend. The BMG fretted instrument festival takes place in Worthing from Friday to Sunday,...

Mr Mando said, "Get Simon Mayor's books if you can find them. Try "Maple Flames" or "Dark and Slender Boy."..."

Simon's material is really good, and he's a wonderful player, but "Dark and Slender...

• The Yellow Haired Laddie [TAB]
• Pentland Hills [TAB]
• Donald MacPherson's Lament [TAB]
• The Cradle Song [TAB]
• Camasunary [TAB]
• Braigh Loch Iall [TAB]
• Ae Fond Kiss [TAB]
• My Love is...

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From a museum in Milan. When you break a string, just move on to the next neck.

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A Milanese mandolin with a woman's head.

An Italian POW:

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The young chap on our right is playing a balalaika (probably), but the one in the centre of the pic - definitely looks like a mandolin to me. Here's another:

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This photo is from the cover...

Hi Seter. Irish and American whiskey is spelled with an "e", while Scottish whisky without. The tune "Farewell to Whisky" was indeed composed by Niel Gow. After a few years of shortages, the harvests...

Congratulations, Dagger! I doubt if I've reached three figures, and I may have been member for nearly as long as you.

Thanks for sharing those photos - you've done a great job all together, and you should be proud of yourself. Next project? Engaging with the local community?

Sorry about the forum - the software needs to be updated and I have been putting it off for too long now. Perhaps this will act as the nudge I need to do it!

Here's another project I've been...

Not Niles (now there really is a mando giant!), NIGEL!

The book I did for Al might be of interest to others:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1189785/SMG_Mixed/WMP1/WMS2_SA.pdf

I have compiled a small booklet looking at twelve different Scottish composers from the past 300 years, giving musical examples and a brief biography of each. I have chosen musicians who have,...

• Dave Swarbrick has always been one of my favourites and a big influence in the early days. It's his exuberance and joy of playing which comes across most, in my opinion.
• Gary Peterson of the...

It was many years ago when I first met the late mandolinist Alison Stephens. I was visiting a conference of mostly classically trained musicians, and as a self-taught traditional mandolin player I...