New England Fiddlers' Repertoire
Session lister —
Tune lister —
Collection lister
Several versions of this collection have been published.
The first (1983) version was mostly used.
There's a project underway to combine the tunes visible on each 2-page set
into a single .abc file. This is partly because version 3 has the tunes in
alphabetical order, which makes tunes easy to find, but adjacent tunes usually
don't work well together. Version 1 has them in 2-page sets of (mostly) 4 tunes
that usually (but not always) make good dance sets. Version 3 had chords added,
which can be a help in gatherings.
Another goal here is to produce more compact versions of the tunes.
This is so sets fit better on the small-screen gadgets that are becoming
popular in many musical circles. We'll see how well this works in practice.
Here in New England, the NEFR books are quite popular with many people,
but there are complainst about the difficulties in using them at a dance.
The main change is that many tunes have written-out parts that have been
compacted by using repeats with multiple endings.