Fiddle tune sources and other fiddle resources

Recordings of Dave Reiner posted to Fiddle Hangout - Enjoy!

Oldtime Fiddle Tunes (John Lamancusa) - Sheet music, field recordings, and midi from an old friend of mine. Don't miss it!

O'Neill's Music Of Ireland and more - Sheet music for this venerable collection from Chief O'Neil of Chicago

Oldtime Fiddler's Repertory at The Mountain Sentinal - Transcriptions for fiddle and banjo from R.P. Christeson's book)

The Fiddler's Companion (Andrew Kuntz) - Look up any tune to find all you ever wanted to know, plus ABC notation for tunes

JC''s Tune Finder (John Chambers) - Finds many versions of tunes in ABC notation from all over (can view in many ways)

ABC Resources - Helpful links for understanding and using ABC music notation

ABC-to-Music Converter - Just paste in the ABC, see the tune

Richard Robinson's Tune Book - 3500 great tunes in Scottish, Irish, Scandinavian, English, French, and Balkan styles

Tune Collections on the Internet (Mickey Koth) - Quite a comprehensive listing and set of links

The Session - Huge number of Irish tune transcriptions and information

Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1050 reels, jigs, and more) - From 1883!

Irish Traditional Tune Index (Alan Ng) - Nice searching and analysis capabilities

Carp Celtic Jam - Excellent versions of tunes in their tune book

Peet de Moor's collection of almost 3000 fiddle tunes - PDFs and midis

Traditional Celtic, Irish and Oldtime Tune Book (Glenn Weiser) - 500+ tunes and links to many other online tunebooks

The Roots Music Listening Room - Wonderful collections of older recordings (mainly from 78s) in many music traditions

A Collection of Great Old 78s - Click on the tune names to hear wonderful oldtime fiddling, swing tunes, and more, from old 78 rpm records

Traditional Music Library - Bluegrass, oldtime, Irish, Scottish, and much more

Identitairs Québecois - More than 400 traditional French Canadian tunes with recordings, lists, links

Tuneswappers - Videos of great tunes you need to know from Andy Reiner, who runs the Monday night Tuneswapper sessions in Burlington, MA

New England Fiddle Tunes - Good PDFs, explanations, and history thanks to Peter Yarensky (also see his country dance pages)

World Fiddler (Jim Doran) - Recordings, videos, and advice on technique in several styles

Prairie Mountain Fiddlers - Good pdfs of sheet music for these tunes played in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Fiddle Tunes from Bernie Waugh (Peter Doyle) - Nice collection of PDF and ABC versions

Mel Bay Publications - Publisher of Dave's fiddle books and many other fine folk music books and CDs

Fiddler Magazine - You should subscribe! Great articles and tunes, and fine website with links to fiddle camps and much more

Musical Traditions online - Many articles and other resources from this fine magazine

The Field Recorders' Collective - Fantastic source recordings, from my friend Ray Alden and other collectors

Sanger's Guide to Irish Fiddle - Check out this sensible advice

Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection - Kudos to my friend Alan Jabbour for passing these great tunes

Oldtime Music - David Lynch assembled this comprehensive site on oldtime fiddlers, events, resources and more

Mel Bay's Fiddle Sessions - Tunes and discussions galore, hosted by fiddler and prolific book author Stacy Phillips

Swing Tunes - Nice collection of lead lines and chord progressions for various swing and jazz standards thanks to Mike

Scottish Country Dance Tunes - Many pdfs thanks to Bruce Shawyer of Corryvreckan

Folkwiki of 1680 Swedish and other Scandinavian tunes - Oh, you want it in English?

Video of North Carolina Oldtime Fiddlers including Tommy Jarrell - 27 entertaining minutes long

Blue Rose (Scandinavian) - Karen Myers' excellent site for Scandinavian musicians

Old Time Key of C Fiddle Tunes - Just what it says, plus F tunes as well

Scottish Fiddlers of Los Angeles - Audio and decent sheet music for core tunes

Salyer MP3s - Free download from the great oldtime fiddler John Salyer (thanks to Paul Muhlrad)

Sheet Music Archive - Lots of fiddle tunes (thanks to Frank Nordberg)

The Way of the Fiddle - One fiddler's collection of ~60 oldtime tune transcriptions

Wendy Anthony's Oldtime Tune List - Good tune list with pointers to MP3s and videos

SessioNight - Tunes, pointers to other tune sites (Irish, old time, Cape Breton, Scottish, etc.)

Recommended Listening for Fiddlers - One person's good list with descriptions and links

Violin Online - Nice writeups on the basics

Fiddleicious - Don Roy's site with tunes passed on in Maine from Scottish, Irish, Quebecois, and Acadian ancestors

Please email me if you spot any broken links on this page! Thanks, Dave.