William Winter's Quantocks Tune Book

Years ago we produced a tune book based on the Hardy family collection of jigs, reels, waltzes etc. Unfortunately the publisher didn’t reprint when it sold out but now we have a replacement in the form of the William Winter Tune Book . Geoff Rye, mentioned above, used to run the library at Halsway Manor before Cynthia took it over. In 1960 he purchased the notebook of William Winter a fiddle player from West Bagborough in Somerset. It is dated 1850 and in it there are over 400 melodies. Geoff Woolfe has meticulously edited these and in the new book you will find 377 of them. These are the old country tunes, very similar in content to the Hardy collection and just right for musicians whether experienced or just starting out.

The book comes with a CD of 31 of the tunes played by local musicians on fiddles, melodion and concertina.