Pete Loud's Collection of

Northumbrian, Tyneside
and other
Traditional Tunes for the Fiddle

Hi Guys,

These are just a few of my favourite fiddle tunes. They're primarily Northumbrian & Tyneside tunes, with a load of popular Irish, Scottish, & Morris session tunes.

Recently I have completely revised all of the tunes in my collection and have added almost all of the known hornpipes, and other fiddle tunes of James Hill, (Tyneside 1840-1850), and several other general Northumbrian session tunes. I haven't yet had the time to update and revise the tunes in the Freebies displayed here, which have a few mistakes, but the latest versions are in my book and I hope to include them on the site as soon as I get the time.
(Don't think I'm claiming to be an expert fiddler
just because I pulled these tunes together,
far from it ;-(

Oops! It just crossed my mind that many of the international visitors to my website might not know about Northumberland. Well, a few eons after God spent 7 days making the world, he looked around and saw that everyone was miserable, bitter and twisted, so to give them hope, he decided that he'd cut out a bit of heaven and send it down to earth. He stuck it at the top North East corner of England, next to the Scottish border, like a rose in the midden, and that's Northumberland. To offset the beauty and tranquility of the Northumbrian hills, beaches, castles, and the Roman Wall the Devil created the Northumbrian Pipes ;-)
For more info. on Northumbrian music check out, Northumberland Music.

While you're browsing, if you are interested in concertinas, check out my George Case and Lachenal English concertinas.

Only Ł18.00

Excl. p&p

Less than 4p per tune !

This tune book is two books in one.

Part 1 is over 225 Northumbrian & Tyneside tunes.

This is the most comprehensive tunebook of Northumbrian & Tyneside traditional tunes.

Part 2 is over 240 popular session tunes, mostly Celtic, with some barn dance and North West morris tunes. The emphasis has been on tunes which frequently are played in sessions throughout U.K. My original objective with this tunebook was that when travelling around I could take with me all the tunes I knew, was learning, and intended to learn, all in one book. I didn't want to carry around a dozen separate books, (padded out with tunes which are hardly ever played), and dozens of loose sheets of music.

I am continually developing this tune book and hope to continue to do so over the years to come. Unfortunately books with hundreds of tunes are not economic. The production costs of a book with over 400 tunes are almost 8 times as great as a book with 50 tunes, but I can't sell it at 8 times the price. So I can not continue simply to add more tunes, I've not yet worked out how to handle that :-(

This is an A4 format book with plastic covers and bound with a wire comb so that the book opens flat, well worth every penny ;-)

There are some great tunes here, give them a try.

Cheers,

Pete Loud

Check out these .pdf sample pages from the new book.

James Hill tunes

Reels,
Father Kelly's, Merry Blacksmith, The Banshee

Comments.
The first new book printed went straight off to "Bagpiper" in Rochester, New York. This is what he had to say:

"The new book arrived yesterday. It's great! I think it is definitely going to be a big hit around here. Thank you so much for your efforts in putting a tune book like this together." * * * * *
From "Temperance" in rec.music.folk

Looks good and guess what! The elusive Barrington Hornpipe that I have been searching for for a while is there. The North East is steeped in ballads and music and I've seen the first book and was impressed. * * * * *
and after Temperance bought the latest book, she wrote to rec.music.celtic,

I have got to say that I recently bought this book and it's superb. . . . . . . The book is a veritable treasure and excellent value.
* * * * *
Hi Peter, The book arrived this morning . . . It looks wonderful. . . .
Thanks again and for the very fast delivery.
Paul Leaver, Australia * * * * *
Hi Pete - just been on your site and was very impressed.
Neil Thomson, Scotland * * * * *
Book arrived safely, it's brilliant!
Sue Mentz * * * * *
Just letting you know the tune book arrived safely. I like it. Very nice. As well as being a brilliant reference book it will keep me happy for months.
Ally * * * * *
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! For your website
Vince Trago, Ohio * * * * *
Mr. Loud, you are a saint to aid us. Thank you for everything and for your collegiality. You will be thanked in the program notes for the performance. . . . . Again--we are grateful.
Polly S. Fields, Canada
I've been called many things in my life, but this is the first time I've been called a saint ;-) * * * * *

Northumbrian, Tyneside,
& Other
Traditional Fiddle Tunes

Over 480 tunes

Northumbrian & Tyneside Tunes

James Hill Navvie, (G), The Locomotive Hornpipe, (D), The Underhand Hornpipe, (B Flat), The, Underhand Hornpipe, (G), The Redesdale Hornpipe, The Steamboat, The Steamboat, (2), The Cage Hornpipe, (G), The Spotted Bitch, (G), The Quayside Hornpipe (A), The Quayside Hornpipe, (G), The Gateshead Hornpipe, (A), The Gateshead Hornpipe, (G), The Barber's Pole, (G), The Hawk Hornpipe (E), The Hawk Hornpipe, (D), The Hawk Hornpipe, (G), The Champion Hornpipe, (D) Great Exhibition, (F), The Great Exhibition, (D), The Fiddler's Fancy, (E) Fiddler's Fancy, (D) High Level Bridge Hornpipe, (G), The Lads Like Beer, (F), The Lads Like Beer, (D), The Earl Grey Hornpipe, (A), The West End, The Enterprise Hornpipe, (A), The Enterprise Hornpipe, (G), The Omnibus, The Flying Dutchman, (A), The Flying Dutchman, (D), The Miss Hunter's Hornpipe, (D) No. 8 Hornpipe, (F), The No. 8 Hornpipe, (G), The James Brown Hornpipe, (D) No. 9 Hornpipe, (F) No. 9 Hornpipe, (D) Tykeside, (F) Tykeside, (D) Proudlock's Fancy (B Flat) Proudlock's Fancy, (G) Marquis of Waterford's Hornpipe, (B Flat) Marquis of Waterford's Hornpipe, (G) Old Church Hornpipe, (G), The Bottle Bank, (B Flat) Bottle Bank, (D) Beeswing, (B Flat), The Beeswing, (G), The XYZ Hornpipe, (A) XYZ Hornpipe, (G) Tide Comes in, (B Flat), The Tide Comes in, (G), The Jenny Lind, (A) Jenny Lind, (G) Little Jim's Hornpipe, (B Flat) Little Jim's Hornpipe, (G) New Year's Gift, (A), The New Year's Gift, (G), The Charles Attwood, (A) Charles Attwood, (G) Hill's Fancy, (B Flat) Hill's Fancy, (G) Hill's Hornpipe, (B Flat) Hill's Hornpipe, (G) Pear Tree, (F), The Pear Tree, (D), The Newcastle Hornpipe, (B Flat), The Newcastle Hornpipe, (A), The Spence's Tent (B Flat) Spence's Tent (G) Gardener Lads, (A), The Gardener Lads, (G), The Foga Bella Free Trade, (B Flat), The Free Trade, (G), The Tweedly Park Hawk Polka, The South Shore, II, The Scholar, The Cliff Hornpipe, (D), The Wonder Hornpipe, (G), The Golden Eagle, The Abraham Mackintosh Miss Aubone Surtees' Favourite Miss Brandling of Gosforth's Reel Miss Reay of Killingworth's Favorite Miss Ord of Fenham's Reel Miss Ridley of Blagdon's Miss Charlotte Grey of Backworth's Reel Miss Vardy's Reel Tom Carruthers Whittingham Vale Hornpipe, The Coquetdale Hornpipe, The Lass o'Coquetside, The Glendale Hornpipe, The Tynedale Hornpipe, The Bonny Cragside Willie Taylor Pearl Wedding, The Nancy Taylor's Reel Shirley's Reel Tich's Reel Willie Taylor's Fiddle Shining Pool Hornpipe, The Whittle Dene Hornpipe Neil Taylor's Jig Christine Taylor's Jig Roland & Cynthia Taylor Kerry's Welcome to The Dene Farewell to the Dene Snowy Monday Tom Clough & Family Nancy Jenny Clough Dr Whittaker's Hornpipe Willow Tree, The G. H. Hedley's Hornpipe Mr Kennedy North Lullaby Carriteth Miss Maydell Armstrong Shadows Spirit of The Border Herd on the Hill, The Melody Joan's Jig Reflections Memories	Jack Armstrong Rothbury Hills Rowantree Hill Will Atkinson Kyloe Burn Reel Redeside Hornpipe Glen Aln Hornpipe Miss Sharon Davies Pippa Sandford Early Morning Reel Alistair Anderson's Fancy Anthony Robb 93 Not Out Billy Pigg Gypsies' Lullaby Bonny Woodside Tom's March Carrick Hornpipe Biddlestone Hornpipe Old Drove Road, The Keening in The Wind (?) Hepple Haugh Raylees Dr Browne Foxhunter's Hornpipe Billsmoor John of Carrick Anne of Hindhope Coffee Bridge Kielder Fells Rookland Lasses Archie's Fancy Bill Charlton's Fancy Northumbrian Gathering Tosson March Wallington Hall Archie Dagg Swindon Elsey's Waltz Joe Hutton's March Foxglove Hornpipe, The Andrew's March George T. Mitchell Glen Aln Rant College Burn Rant Geordie's Rant T J Elliot Hesleyside Reel Gunnerton Fell Cuddy Lewis Wigham Low Lights of Shields, The Captain's Hornpipe, The Dave's Pipes Robert Whinham Whinham's Reel New High Level Hornpipe Whinham's Jig Robin Dunn Farewell to Joe, A Tune for Willy Taylor Robin Dunn's Compliments to Will Atkinson The Rocking Horse Chris Ormston The Bigg Market Lasses A Dog's Life St. Cuthbert Crossing The Rhine Matt Seattle Lindisfarne More Northumbrian Sweet Hesleyside Whittingham Green Lane Cott, The Breamish, The Wild Hills o' Wannies Derwentwater's Farewell Bonny at Morn Lament for Ian Dickson Morpeth Rant, The Morpeth Rant, The Jock Wilson o'Fenton Cheviot Rant, The Harry's Rant Durham Rangers Morpeth Lasses Nunwick Mill Proudlock's Hornpipe Rowley Burn Gilsland Hornpipe, The Barrington Hornpipe, The Newcastle Station Whinshields Hornpipe Miss Aubone Surtees' Favourite Alston Flower Show Rusty Sneck, The Intake Hornpipe, The Dunstanburgh Castle Alston Flower Show Joe Hutton's Go to Berwick, Johnny Rusty Gull Sir Sydney Smith's March Cuckold Come Out of The Amery Lads of Alnwick, The Blanchland Races Small Coals an' Little Money Lamshaw's Fancy Holmes's Fancy Jimmy Allen Mile to Ride, A Peacock Followed the Hen, The Noble Squire Dacre Lamb Skinnet Bellingham Boat, The Hexham Races The Black and Grey Felton Lonnin Holey Halfpenny, The Warkworth Castle. Sir John Fenwick's the Flower Amang Them All Hexham Quadrille Random Alnwick Castle Calliope House Great North Run '86
Part 2, Popular Session Tunes
Hornpipes Belfast Hornpipe, The Galway Hornpipe Boys of Bluehill, The Harvest Home Trumpet Hornpipe, The Manchester Hornpipe, The Liverpool Hornpipe, The Sheffield Hornpipe, The Off to California Rights of Man, The Old French Chief O'Neill's Favourite Kitty's Wedding Fairies' Hornpipe, The Miss Thompson's Hornpipe Greencastle, The Red Haired Boy, The Friendly Visit, The Liddell's Hornpipe Piper in the Meadow Straying, (A) Acrobat's Hornpipe Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine Madame Bonaparte Fisher's Hornpipe Stack of Wheat, The Home Ruler, The Sailor's Hornpipe, The Staten Island Hornpipe Handsome Plowboy, The Click Go the Shears Reels Father Kelly's Paddy on the Railway Banshee, The Maid Behind the Bar Bonnie Kate Jennie's Chickens Gravel Walk Teetotaller, The Sally Gardens Wise Maid, The Silver Spear Mountain Road, The Blackberry Blossom, The Morning Star Swallow's Tail, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, The Star of Munster, The Boys of the Lough Sleepy Maggie Drowsy Maggie Salamanca, The Cooley's Reel Anything for John Joe? Miss Monaghan Cup of Tea, A Nine Points of Roguery Christmas Eve Craig's Pipes The Old Copper Plate Taproom, The Miss Buckley's Reel An Suisin Ban Dunmore Lasses Breakdown, The Galopede Mason's Apron, The Robertson's Reel Road ta Houll, Da Ferry Reel Lay Dee At Dee Sleep Soond i da Moarnin' Barrowburn Reel Willafjord Spootiskerry Tarbolton, The Roxburgh Castle Loch Leven Castle Miss McLeod's, (G) Devil among the Tailors, The Speed The Plough Flowers of Edinburgh, The Fairy Dance Lass o' Patie's Mill, The Balquhidder Lasses La Russe Jigs Tatter Jack Walsh Trip to the Cottage Frost is All Over, The Kesh Jig, The Tenpenny Bit, The Tripping Upstairs Irish Washerwoman, The Saddle The Pony Connaught Man's Rambles, The Father O'Flynn Blackthorn Stick, The Jackson's Favourite Donnybrook Fair Road to Lisdoonvarna Pet of the Pipers Swallow's Nest, The Rakes of Kildare, The Jump At The Sun Banish Misfortune Tobin's Favorite Cliffs of Moher, The Cobbler, The Haste to the Wedding Lark in the Morning Morrison's Dusty Windowsills Blarney Pilgrim, The Lannigan's Ball Kerfunken Jig, The Orphan, The My Darling Asleep Gillian's Apples Rosin the Beau Out on the Ocean, Rose in The Heather, The Jig of Slurs, The Quarryman, The Mucking o' Geordie's Byre Down The Tannach Road Shetland Shells Belle of the Ball Three Sea Captains, The New Rigged Ship, The	Lady in The Boat, The Bright May Morn Sweets of May Tight Little Island Oyster Girl Happy Farmer, The Butterfly, The Foxhunter's Jig, The Hunting The Hare Drops of Brandy Rocky Road to Dublin, The Smash the Windows Dingle Regatta, The Merrily Kiss the Quaker Cock of the North Polkas Egan's Polka Kerry Polka No. 1 Hayden Fancy Billy Sullivan's Polka Ballydesmond Polka No.1 Maurice Manley's Polka Ballydesmond Polka No.3 Scartaglen Polka, The Maggie in the Wood Kerry Polka No. 2 42 Pound Cheque, The John Ryan's Jenny Lind Polka Rose Tree, The Rakes of Mallow Buttered Peas Spanish Lady Salmon Tails Mona's Delight Davy, Davy, Knick-Knack Bobby Shaftoe Mairi's Wedding Britches Full of Stitches, Oh The Assorted Michael Turner's Waltz Margaret's Waltz Wild Rose, The Inisheer Slockit Light, Da Dark Island Ashokan Farewell Give Me Your Hand Jock o'Hazeldean Mrs Jamieson's Favourite Eagle's Whistle, The Battle of The Somme John D. Burgess Athol Highlanders Gilderoy King of the Fairies Soldier's Joy Astley's Ride Lunch at The Pub Turkey in the Straw British Grenadiers, The Lillibulero Winster Gallop Bonny Breastknot Tree in the Bog Flowers of Edinburgh, (2) Brighton Camp Princess Royal Newcastle Portsmouth Boys of Wexford Sean South My Love, She's but a Lassie Yet Captain Maquire Dashing White Sergeant O'Carolan Carolan's Concerto Carolan's Draught Planxty Irwin, (G) Planxty Irwin, (D) Planxty Fanny Powers Hewlett Sheebeg Sheemore Planxty George Brabazon Tunes from around Milton Keynes Hornet, The Plane Tree, The Hop Break, The European Tunes Canal en Octobre, Le Ganivelle Scottiche a Catineaux Bourree de Concours La 500 Mazurka d'Embrault Horse's Branle Wals voor Jorunn The Skylark Boeing 747 Tunes From North America Arkansas Traveller June Apple Elks' Festival, The Wade Hampton's Hornpipe President Garfield's Hornpipe President Lincoln's Hornpipe Blackberry Blossom, St. Anne's Reel, (1) St. Anne's Reel, (2) Grand Chain, The Lemonville Jig, The Song tunes, '60s Folk Revival Fiddler's Green Leaving of Liverpool Holy Ground, The And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda Green Fields of France Nightingale, The Shoals of Herring Bunch of Thyme Will Ye Go, Lassie Go? Wild Rover, The

If I am breaching copyright with any of these tunes, my apologies, please contact me and I'll remedy the situation.

Aghhh!, at last copyright has caught up with me, I have had to drop 1 tune from the Freebies. It was only an accompaniment to another tune. The original tune is still in the book :-)

Aghhh! another breech of copyright, this time an enormous breech, but with a happy ending :-) Coquetdale Music, which is Kathryn Tickell's company, owns the copyright of the Billy Pigg, Willie Taylor, Archie Dagg tunes, probably quite a few more, and she has, emailed me, not to demand my being hanged from Elsdon Gibbet, but to say I may use them.
Thanks, Kathryn, without your generous co-operation we could be deprived of many excellent tunes.

If you are unfamiliar with Northumbrian & Tyneside tunes
I'd like to suggest checking out these musicians:

Kathryn Tickell, brilliant on fiddle and Northumbrian Pipes,

Matt Seattle, although he has slipped over the border into Southern Scotland, I think the most memorable pub session I have ever experienced was listening to Matt with his border pipes in the Tap & Spile at Morpeth.

The High Level Ranters, These guys have been at it for over three decades and seem to have made hundreds of recordings of N&T tunes, my attic is full of their old black plastic records.

Tom McConville, Tom's great when it comes to the tunes of James Hill, and his other CD's with Pauline Cato on the pipes are superb.

My thanks go to Robin Dunn who has allowed me to include 4 of his tunes, some of which had not been published elsewhere.

Also thanks to Chris Ormston whose tune, The Bigg Market Lasses was my favourite tune throughout 2004. He has given me permission to include that and another couple of his tunes in the book.

There are many more first rate musicians up there, the above are just my personal favourites. Another great thing up there is the number of young musicians who are embarrassingly good, I don't dare take my fiddle in a pub up there 'cos sure as anything some 15 year old will sit down next to me with a flute, fiddle or whistle and blow me away ;-(.

Just one more plug, for a friend in Los Angeles, Linda Dewar, who has just recorded a CD of Scottish songs, Where the Heart is. Check out the details on Linda's website at, http://www.lindadewar.com/
As well as the singing, I particularly like the fiddle backing from John Taylor. A number of the Scottish tunes in my book are taken from John Taylor CDs sent over as presents from Linda & her partner Ron Young. I couldn't find a personal webpage of John's, but Google for ["John Taylor" fiddle"] and he'll come up.

Freebies

Tune Notation

Click to see the notation

Rothbury Hills, The
Bonny Cragside, The
Blow the Wind Southerly, The
Sweet Hesleyside,
Swindon,
Morpeth Rant, The
Cheviot Rant, The
Lads of Alnwick, The
Lamshaw's Fancy
Nancy
Sir Sidney Smith's March
Cuckold Come Out of The Amery
Glendale Hornpipe, The
Tynedale Hornpipe, The
Whittingham Vale Hornpipe
Coquetdale Hornpipe, The
Proudlock's Hornpipe
Rowley Burn
Miss Thompson's Hornpipe,
Glen Aln Hornpipe,
Greencastle, The
Barrington Hornpipe, The
Champion Hornpipe
Navvie, The
The Wonder Hornpipe
Redesdale Hornpipe, The
Locomotive Hornpipe, The
High Level Bridge Hornpipe
Rights of Man, The
Lads of North Tyne, The
Harvest Home
Off to California
Belfast Hornpipe, The
Galway Hornpipe, The
Liverpool Hornpipe, The
Manchester Hornpipe, The
The Merry Blacksmith
The Maid behind the Bar
Blackberry Blossom, The
Morning Star
Wind that Shakes the Barley
Scholar, The
Teetotaller, The
Boys of the Lough, The
Miss McCloud's
Trip to the Cottage
Tatter Jack Walsh
Frost is All Over, The
Irish Washerwoman, The
Jackson's Favourite
Donnybrook Fair
Saddle The Pony
Rollicking Irishman, The
Connaught Man's Rambles
Merrily Kiss the Quaker
Rakes of Kildare, The
Smash the Windows
Cliffs of Moher, The
Butterfly, The
Foxhunter's Jig, The
Dingle Regatta, The
Carolan's Concerto
Sheebeg Sheemore
Planxty Irwin
Planxty Fanny Powers
Devil among the Tailors
Athol Highlanders
Mason's Apron, The
King of the Fairies
Staten Island Hornpipe
Sailor's Hornpipe, The
Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine
Kitty's Wedding
Old French
Fairies' Hornpipe
The Britches Full o Stitches
Bill Sullivan's Polka
My Darling Asleep
Gillian's Apples
Taproom The

For more free N & T tunes check out: Terry Birchmore's website.

Why bother printing out these screen displays of the music, you would do much better buying a copy of the tunebook.
The tunes are printed beautifully sharp, uniformly sized and bound with a wire comb so that the book opens flat, well worth every penny ;-)

Ordering Information

Price
(including Airmail post & packing)

Posted to:
UK,	(Ł) GBP 20.00
Europe,	EUR 31
Worldwide,	(Ł) GBP 24 $44.50 EUR 35

Hi Guys, Exchange rates and post prices are working against me.

Today, (6th May 2006), I have revised my prices. When I brought out this book it had 400+ tunes, it now has 480+ tunes, it was under 400g, it's now over 500gm, which puts it into a higher postal rate. Postal rates have increased and the $ dollar has been going down, down & further down. (You might find this hard to believe, but I do not publish this book to make money, I possibly lose money on publishing the book. I do it because I want to see my Northumbrian culture preserved. My latest project is my photographic record of the Northumbrian fishing industry, check that out next ;-)

If the exchange rates drift and the conversion is not sufficiently accurate and you're losing out send me an email and I'll update the prices. Alternatively, pay in GBP and let your credit card company or Paypal worry about the conversion.

Winter 2007/8
I will out of UK this winter until April. I should still be able to supply tune books but email me before sending any payment. I would hate to find that there has been a complication and I can't supply you.

Sorry Guys,
I have run out of tune books and can't take any more orders. I'm not sure how to sort out this one :-( I'll update my website when I get a new stock, but it could be quite a while.

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Pete Loud's Collection of Northumbrian, Tyneside and other Traditional Tunes for the Fiddle

Pete Loud's Collection of

Northumbrian, Tyneside
and other
Traditional Tunes for the Fiddle