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I would like to gratefully acknowledge the following individuals for making donations directly to irishtune.info. Any unexplained codes are albums detailed in the Discography.
2019
- Patrick Andrews: cash donation
- Derek Bayley in the UK: cash donation
- Patrick Brown of Washington, DC, USA: cash donation
- Celtic Cultural Center of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: cash donation
- Francis Cunningham of Co. Clare, Ireland: Urn
- Dave Dotson of Duluth, Georgia, USA: cash donation
- Four Strings of Texas, USA: cash donation
- Rolf Gidlow of East Burke, Vermont, USA: cash donation
- Michael Gregory of Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA: cash donation
- Kevin Griffin of Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA: cash donation
- Ethan Hack of Ryton near Newcastle, England: cash donation
- Iñaki Carro Iturregi of Bilbao, Basque Country: cash donation
- Erich Marschner of Ellicott City, Maryland, USA: ECrn 1
- John McMahon of Wexford, Ireland: books CRE 4 and CRE 5
- Anne Ng of Cupertino, California, USA: cash donation
- Chris Novack of Waldorf, Maryland, USA: cash donation
- Raelach Records: DOR
- Baxter Rogers of Nashville, Tennessee, USA: cash donation
- Robert Ross: cash donation
- Seamus Sands of Ireland: SSands 2
- Brian Shaw of College Station, Texas, USA: CHydn 2, PGMOD
- Dan and Melissa Shingler of Carlisle, Pennsylvania: cash donation
- Thomas Stermitz: cash donation
- Martin White of the Isle of Wight, UK: cash donation
- Pat Wilcox of Delaware, Ohio, USA: cash donation
- Mike Wilkey of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: cash donation
- Adam Work in Shanghai, China: cash donation
2018
- Anonymous: cash donation
- Albrecht Bastmeyer: cash donation
- Terrill Berkstresser: cash donation
- Boorinwood Musical Instruments: cash donation
- Patrick Brown: cash donation
- Celtic Cultural Center of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: cash donation
- Éilís Crean of Franklin, Tennessee, USA: ECrn 2
- William Dempsey: cash donation
- Keith Engle of Pennsylvania, USA: cash donation
- Four Strings: cash donation
- Rolf Gidlow of East Burke, Vermont, USA: cash donation
- Kevin Griffin of Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA: cash donation
- Ethan Hack of Ryton near Newcastle, England: cash donation
- Lesl Harker of northeast New Jersey, USA: cash donation
- Mark Johnson of Appleton, Wisconsin, USA: cash donation
- John Karr: cash donation
- Iñaki Carro Iturregi of Bilbao, Basque Country: cash donation
- James McCann of Washington, DC, USA: cash donation
- Mike McGovern of Dalkey, Ireland: cash donation
- Anne Ng of Cupertino, California, USA: cash donation
- Carl Nolf of New York, USA: cash donation
- Chris Novack of Waldorf, Maryland, USA: cash donation
- Sean O'Neill in the UK: cash donation
- Baxter Rogers of Nashville, Tennessee, USA: cash donation
- Dan and Melissa Shingler of Carlisle, Pennsylvania: cash donation
- Lucas Sterk of the Netherlands: cash donation
- Ian Varley of Austin, Texas, USA: cash donation
2018 Support Summary
- 1 person donated 1 albums
- 26 people gave $833 directly
- Shoppers who started at irishtune.info links directed $145 to irishtune.info.
- 33 albums and 0 tunebooks purchased
- Remaining balance after subtracting basic operating costs: +$13.
2017
- Albrecht Bastmeyer: cash donation
- Scott Boag of Woburn, Massachusetts, USA: cash donation
- Nicolas Brown of Ferndale, Michigan, USA: ACwMoss
- Sylvain Brunerie in the South of France: cash donation
- Celtic Cultural Center of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: cash donation
- Gerry Clarke of Galway, Ireland: FidDel
- Keith Engle of Pennsylvania, USA: cash donation
- Diana Fogel of Chico, California, USA: cash donation
- Four Strings: cash donation
- Rolf Gidlow of East Burke, Vermont, USA: cash donation
- Nathan Gourley of Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA: TrklHwl
- Michael Gregory of Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA: cash donation
- Ethan Hack of Ryton near Newcastle, England: cash donation
- Ben Hockenberry of Rochester, New York, USA: cash donation
- Iñaki Carro Iturregi of Bilbao, Basque Country: cash donation
- Mark Johnson of Appleton, Wisconsin, USA: cash donation
- Steffi Lürzel of Vienna, Austria: cash donation
- Erich Marschner of Ellicott City, Maryland, USA: cash donation
- Mike McGovern of Dalkey, Ireland: cash donation
- Chris Novack of Waldorf, Maryland, USA: cash donation
- Larry Pontious of St. Louis, Missouri, USA: cash donation
- Baxter Rogers of Nashville, Tennessee, USA: cash donation
- Sarah Salter of Monroe County, Georgia, USA: cash donation
- Dan and Melissa Shingler of Carlisle, Pennsylvania: cash donation
- Lucas Sterk of the Netherlands: cash donation
- Christoph Zeiler of Vienna, Austria: PdOCo
2017 Support Summary
- 4 people donated 4 albums
- 24 people gave $612 directly
- Shoppers who started at irishtune.info links directed $147 to irishtune.info.
- 19 albums and 0 tunebooks purchased
- Remaining balance after subtracting basic operating costs: +$13.
2016
- Anonymous in New Zealand: cash donation
- Steve Abel of Vashon Island, Washington, USA: cash donation
- Albrecht Bastmeyer: cash donation
- Scott Boag of Woburn, Massachusetts, USA: cash donation
- Boorinwood Musical Instruments: cash donation
- Sylvain Brunerie in the South of France: cash donation
- Kevin Burget of Vermont, USA: cash donation, CMr 2, Mona
- Celtic Cultural Center of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: cash donation
- Keith Engle of Pennsylvania, USA: cash donation
- Four Strings: cash donation
- FullSet: FullSt 1, FullSt 2, FullSt 3
- Anit Ghosh of Montreal, Quebec, Canada: cash donation
- Rolf Gidlow of East Burke, Vermont, USA: cash donation
- Nathan Gourley of Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA: CplySt
- Germán Guillot of Prague, Czech Republic: DD 9
- Ethan Hack of Ryton near Newcastle, England: cash donation
- Iñaki Carro Iturregi of Bilbao, Basque Country: cash donation
- Steffi Lürzel of Vienna, Austria: cash donation
- Mick McAuley: McMcAly 2
- Mike McGovern of Dalkey, Ireland: cash donation
- Anne Ng of Cupertino, California, USA: cash donation
- Rich Race of St. Louis, Missouri, USA: cash donation
- Baxter Rogers of Nashville, Tennessee, USA: cash donation
- Jeanna Schultz of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: cash donation
- Suzanne Spinelli of Southbury, Connecticut, USA: cash donation
- Lucas Sterk of the Netherlands: cash donation
- Cillian Vallely of New York, USA: CVlly
- Will Zarwell, of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: SBJM 1
2016 Support Summary
- 7 people donated 10 albums
- 22 people gave $576 directly
- Shoppers who started at irishtune.info links directed $176 to irishtune.info.
- 24 albums and 1 tunebook purchased
- Balance after subtracting basic operating costs: +$3.
2015
- Anonymous in Charlotte, Vermont, USA: cash donation
- Anonymous in New Zealand: cash donation
- Albrecht Bastmeyer: cash donation
- Ronan Browne in Connemara, Ireland: Cran 5, RBPOL 3
- Sylvain Brunerie in the South of France: cash donation
- Buttons and Bows: BBow 4
- Cantabile Music: cash donation
- John Carty: GdMxr, JCtBrn
- Celtic Cultural Center of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: Cash donation
- Brendan Doyle of Ireland: LRCB
- Mike Euritt in Northern California, USA: cash donation
- David Foster near Chelsea, Michigan, USA: cash donation
- Lauri Gannon of Illinois, USA: cash donation
- Anit Ghosh of Montreal, Quebec, Canada: cash donation
- Ethan Hack of Ryton near Newcastle, England: cash donation
- Jonathan Harrington of Ireland: cash donation
- Matt and Shannon Heaton of Boston, Massachusetts, USA: cash donation
- Iñaki Carro Iturregi of Bilbao, Basque Country: cash donation
- Alan Kelly: AKG 2
- Liam Kelly: LKPD
- Steffi Lürzel of Vienna, Austria: cash donation
- Bill Lynch of Kilfenora, Co. Clare: LRCB
- Oisín Mac Diarmada of Co. Sligo, Ireland: OMcD 2
- Mary MacNamara: Unfldg, MMcNmr 3
- Kevin McBride: cash donation
- New Folk Records: Boh 5, BrtEarly, RBysFam, WTPO
- Anne Ng: cash donation
- Caitlín Nic Gabhann and Ciarán Ó Maonaigh: CtlnCrn
- Bryan O'Leary: BOLCG
- Sean O'Neill in the UK: cash donation
- Ossian USA: GrousHtr
- Pennywhistler's Press: MR 10
- Joseph Quigley: cash donation
- Baxter Rogers of Nashville, Tennessee, USA: cash donation
- Karen Ryan of London, UK: LLses 5
- Seamus Sands: SSands 1
- Chris Smith of Lubbock, Texas, USA: cash donation
- Socks in the Frying Pan: Socks 1, Socks 2
- Lucas Sterk of the Netherlands: cash donation
- Lisa Ward of Co. Leitrim, Ireland: LWard
- Pat Wilcox of Delaware, Ohio: cash donation
- Christoph Zeiler of Vienna, Austria: cash donation
2015 Support Summary
- 18 people donated 24 albums
- 24 people gave $771 directly
- Shoppers who started at irishtune.info links directed $238 to irishtune.info.
- 40 albums and 3 tunebooks purchased
- Balance after subtracting basic operating costs: +$8.
2014
- The Alt: Alt 1
- Anonymous in New Zealand: cash donation
- Anonymous in Wisconsin, USA: JMd 3
- Joey Abarta of Boston, Massachusetts, USA: JAbrt 1
- Albrecht Bastmeyer: cash donation
- Bill and Chelcy of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: FireAfl
- Sylvain Brunerie in the South of France: cash donation
- Gabriele Ceccarelli of Rome, Italy: cash donation
- Celtic Cultural Center of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: Cash donation
- Martin Connolly of Ennis, Co. Clare: MCnnlly
- Matt Cranitch and Jackie Daly: MCrJD 2
- The Currach of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: Currach
- Keith Engle of Pennsylvania, USA: cash donation
- Úna Ní Fhlannagain of Galway, Ireland: cash donation
- The Four Star Trio of Cork, Ireland: 4StarT 2
- Peter Fraterdeus of Galena, Illinois, USA: cash donation
- Nathan Gourley of Boston, Massachusetts, USA: LfAllChk
- Ethan Hack of Ryton near Newcastle, England: cash donation
- David Homan of Lambertville, New Jersey, USA: cash donation
- Iñaki Carro Iturregi of Bilbao, Basque Country: cash donation
- Deb Kmetz of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: TnGmMss
- Steffi Lürzel of Vienna, Austria: cash donation
- Andrew MacNamara of Tulla, Co. Clare, Ireland: BorTr
- New Folk Records: JKn 4
- Anne Ng: cash donation
- Sean O'Neill in the UK: cash donation
- Baxter Rogers of Nashville, Tennessee, USA: cash donation
- Susan Sharp of Millarville, Alberta, Canada: cash donation
- Chris Smith of Lubbock, Texas, USA: cash donation
- Lucas Sterk of the Netherlands: cash donation
- Téada: Tda 5
- Séamus Walshe of Co. Galway, Ireland: SWlsh 4, SWlsh 5
- Bryan Whiting of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: cash donation
- Pat Wilcox of Delaware, Ohio: AClareSn, BnkShn, Boys 7, Boys 9, Boys 10, Boys 12, Boys 15, CronBrk, ECahill, FlgDub, HamHam, JReidy 3, KoKerry, LinL, McGrCool, MMulv 2, Oisn 2, Oisn 3, NaF 5, Scglen 2, SDI 1
- The Yanks: Yanks 1, Yanks 2
- Will Zarwell, of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: BPower
- Christoph Zeiler of Vienna, Austria: cash donation
2014 Support Summary
- 17 people donated 39 albums
- 19 people gave $433 directly
- Shoppers who started at irishtune.info links directed $242 to irishtune.info.
- 24 albums and 1 tunebook purchased
- Balance after subtracting basic operating costs: +$5.
2013
- Anonymous in New Zealand: cash donation
- Anonymous in Sweden: cash donation
- Anonymous in Wisconsin, USA: cash donation, CODnl 1
- Steve Abel of Vashon Island, Washington, USA: cash donation
- Albrecht Bastmeyer: cash donation
- Bill Black of Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA: cash donation
- Patrick Cavanagh in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA: SLoP (book)
- Gabriele Ceccarelli of Rome, Italy: cash donation
- Celtic Cultural Center of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: Cash donation
- Compass Records: ECoyKD
- Manuel Rodriguez Fernandez, The Irish Brothers, of Alcorcón (Madrid), Spain: cash donation
- Ethan Hack of Ryton near Newcastle, England: cash donation
- Paul T. Kinder of New Albany, Indiana, USA: 20 CDs from his collection
- John Lavelle of San Jose, California: JLavelle
- Oisín Mac Diarmada of Co. Sligo, Ireland: cash donation
- Sean Moriarty of Brooklyn, New York, USA: cash donation
- Stephen Morrow of Des Moines, Iowa, USA: cash donation
- New Folk Records: MMcHugh
- Anne Ng: cash donation
- Niamh Ní Charra: NNC 3
- Oldtime Records: PJConlon, OTUS1, OTUS2, OTPR
- Sean O'Neill in the UK: cash donation
- Baxter Rogers of Nashville, Tennessee, USA: cash donation
- Liz Schueler of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: cash donation
- Lucas Sterk of the Netherlands: cash donation
- Pat Wilcox of Delaware, Ohio: FMD 1, DzDnly 1, JKn 5
- Christoph Zeiler of Vienna, Austria: cash donation
2012
- Si BG: CTL 11, CTL 12
- Bally-O Promotions: KC 3
- Albrecht Bastmeyer: Cash donation
- Drew Beisswenger: IFMCK (book and CD)
- Bill Black of Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA: Cash donation
- Gabriele Ceccarelli of Rome, Italy: cash donation
- Celtic Cultural Center of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: Cash donation
- Compass Records: A PG
- Elizabeth Foster of Fairhope, Alabama: cash donation
- Ethan Hack of Ryton near Newcastle, England: cash donation
- The House Devils: HDvls 2
- Raymond Irwin of Australia: cash donation
- Paul Kinder of New Albany, Indiana, USA: sold 38 CDs from his collection to irishtune.info at a very favorable price
- Steffi Lürzel of Vienna, Austria: cash donation
- Oisín Mac Diarmada of Co. Sligo, Ireland: Cash donation
- Andrew Mac Namara: FlgMem
- Larry Mallette of Houston, Texas, USA: cash donation, THny 1, THny 2, JigUp, LMlltt 1, LMlltt 2
- Danny Moore of Belfast, Ireland: Boys 3
- New Folk Records: PO 4, CMcAn, BBSW, JKn 7
- Anne Ng: cash donation
- Caitlín Nic Gabhann: CtNGn
- Brían Ó hAirt: In2M
- Nicholas Patterson of New York City: cash donation
- Baxter Rogers of Nashville, Tennessee: cash donation
- Jeanna Schultz of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: BG 1, MER, A FTY, LCJD 2
- Harry Seaman of Ceol Cairde, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA: book NF
- Dennis Stephens of Fairbanks, Alaska: cash donation
- Lucas Sterk of the Netherlands: cash donation
- David Taylor of Spancil Hill, Co. Clare, Ireland: cash donation
- Donald Terao: cash donation
- Bryan Whiting of Madison, Wisconsin, USA: cash donation
- Christoph Zeiler of Vienna, Austria: cash donation
2011
- Charlene Adzima: CAdz 1
- Anonymous: $500 cash donation
- Bua: Bua 3
- Liz Carroll: Book LC
- Celtic Cultural Center (Madison, Wisconsin): Cash donation
- Matt Cranitch: MCrJD 1
- Paul Groff: JOH 1, WmSullvn
- Guidewires: Gdwr 2
- Ethan Hack of Ryton near Newcastle, England: BRny 1, cash donation
- Shannon Heaton: LTC 1
- Mathew McMillan of Knoxville, Tennessee: cash donation
- New Folk Records: SailCrvt, IBrgd 10, LMcK 1, DS 2, RBys 3, DSLM, Fngl 1, DS 3
- Niamh Ní Charra: NNC 2
- Ossian USA: BODFam
- Baxter Rogers of Nashville, Tennessee: cash donation
2010
- Apple Mountain Music of Albuquerque, New Mexico: Cash donation
- Albrecht Bastmeyer: Cash donation
- Bill Black: SkHly 3, StGrmm 2, LaL
- Kathleen Collins: KClns 2
- Compass Records: JDr 6
- Kate Dowling of the HiBs: HiBs 1
- Ethan Hack: Cash donation
- Fidil: Fdl 2
- Owen Hackett of County Meath: Boys 8
- Shannon Heaton: SHtn 1
- Jeff Ksiazek of the Ward Irish Music Archives: FONC
- Lúnasa: Lu 8
- Skip McKinley: SMck
- Gráinne Murphy: GMrphy
- Anne Ng of California: Cash donation
- Ossian USA: MCny 2, CrnrHs 2, LzKnls 2
- Dan Possumato of Portland, Oregon: DPss 2
- John Whelan of Connecticut: JWh 2
- Pat Wilcox of Delaware, Ohio: Cash donation and BC 3, KB SD, BB 5, Drv 1, JMd 2, OHs 2, OHs 3, CFF 3, CFF 4, PS 9, and the Celtic Souls package (ST BST, FD 1, BICM, FTIM, CtL, SotC)
- Christoph Zeiler of Vienna, Austria: Cash donation
2009
2008
- Áthas: Aths 1
- Albrecht Bastmeyer: Cash donation
- Cló Iar-Chonnachta: CMcEv 3, BCw 2, RossBr, UaC
- Compass Records: MH 5, Lu 6, Lu 7, LCJD, HatW, ATrgs 1, OMcA, Sol 10, AbsIr
- Tony DeMarco of Pennsylvania: TDeM
- Joanna Dupuis of Milwaukee, Wisconsin: BigSq, DD 2, GCB 2, JRSLCB 2, McP BHB, MOBAL, MSCB, SDI 2, SDI 3, Shskn 10
- David Levine of Kilshanny, Co. Clare: Cash donation
- Terry Moylan of Dublin: WC (book)
- Niamh Ní Charra: NNC 1
- Fr. Miceal Noone of Galway: Cash donation
- Ossian USA
- Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn of Co. Monaghan: SMTOD
- Barry Riley, in Ireland: partial subsidy of PKlly
- Baxter Rogers of Nashville, Tennessee: KCB 3, SEgn 1, PS 7
- Lia Zito of Anchorage, Alaska: Cash donation
2007
- Kevin Burke: KB ABR
- Claddagh Records: TCB 4
- Cló Iar-Chonnachta: PotW, PHGH 2, TAM, CLnn 2
- James Kelly of Miami, Florida: JK 4
- Scott Morgan of Evanston, Illinois: DM 1 (book), DM 2 (book and CD), DM 3 (book), DM 4 (book and CD)
- Ossian USA
- Karen Ryan of The London Lasses and Pete Quinn: LLses 1, LLses 2, LLses 3
- Bob "RWW" Taylor: Cash donation
- The various acoustic guitars of SameDayMusic.com: Cash donation
- Rolf Wagels near Hannover, Germany: Cash donation
- Bryan Whiting of Madison, Wisconsin: EON
2006
- James Carty: JasCt
- John Carty: JCt 5
- Cló Iar-Chonnachta: JOSe, MMrch 2
- Lauri Gannon: Cash donation
- Eliot Grasso of Seattle, Washington (at that time): EGrs 1, NNW
- Matt and Shannon Heaton: MSHtn 1, MsHtn 2
- Eron Johnson: Cash donation
- Debbie Kmetz of Madison, Wisconsin: JFtg
- Kevin Krell of the International Traditional Music Society: WFO 1, WFO 2, WFO 3
- Randy Miller of Alstead, New Hampshire: RM (book), FT (book)
- Bill Peden of Madison, Wisconsin: Skylrk 2, 4MD 2, DByrn
- Tara Music Company: MLnn
Earlier
- Pat Cloonan of Connemara, now in Chicago, Illinois: PCln
- Dan Cobb of Madison, Wisconsin: A (book), AW (book), P (book)
- Karen Cornelius of Madison, Wisconsin: TS (book)
- 2003: Eammon Doorley of Danú: Dnu 1, Dnu 3
- Karen Fox Fischer of Madison, Wisconsin: AW, Bx, SR (book)
- Mary Foreman of Madison, Wisconsin: CB
- 2004: Michael Gregory: Cash donation
- Stefan Israel of North Carolina: Sc (book) and audiocassettes of Ch BIH, Ch JG, Ch C
- 2004: George Keith of Boston: TP 2
- 2005: Dana Lyn of New York: DLyn
- 2003: David Moulton of Canada: a spreadsheet of tune titles in the books 1850 and 1001
- Bob Newton of Madison, Wisconsin: FFH, CFF 1, Drv
- John Ottinger of Madison, Wisconsin: GL1
- 2004: Valerie Plested of Mississippi: Lgcy
- 2004: Thomas Pritchett of Idyllwild, California: CTL 6, CTL 8
- 2005: Baxter Rogers of Nashville, Tennessee: AMPR, KCB 3, SEgn 1, PS 7
- 2000: Judy Rose of Madison, Wisconsin: CTL 7, Ch W, Dnú 2
- 2000: Phil Rubenzer of Milwaukee, Wisconsin: M2 (book)
- 2005: Chris Smith of Texas: CSmth
- 2004: Rolf Wagels of Steampacket: Stpkt
- Bryan Whiting of Madison, Wisconsin: FBros, SE 4
Would you be interested in help from other musicians?
Sure, that would be wonderful! Here's my wish list:
- Support irishtune.info financially or by donating Irish CDs and tunebooks that are missing in the index.
- "Marketing" assistance, of this sort:
- Making clever, clear YouTube videos demonstrating cool features of my.irishtune.info.
- Writing reviews, blog posts, tweeting about irishtune.info qualities and features.
- Talking up irishtune.info (and proposing partnership ideas) to relevant organisations such as ITMA, CCE, TunePal, Journal of Irish Music, etc.
- Proposing research projects to musicology graduate students that would make use of irishtune.info data.
- New or used CD issues of the following now-rare albums:
- Music from Sliabh Luachra, RTE CD183, 1995
- Paul O'Shaughnessy, Harry Bradley, Born for Sport
- Carberry/Quinn, Memories from the Holla
- DeDannan, Anthem
- Paddy O'Brien Tune Collection
- A copy of these books:
- The Waltz Book III by Bill Matthiesen
- Get some company to issue a commercial remastering on CD of Bobby Casey's Casey in the Cowhouse.
- Do the organizational and legal work necessary to get irishtune.info registered as (or included under) an IRS-recognized non-profit educational organization.
- Help me write a grant application so that I can spend more time working on the Tunography.
If you want to check out my employment situation (or lack thereof), see my personal homepage.
Why do you need to have and keep an original physical CD package?
It's necessary for me to have permanent access to the original physical objects because for every new item I later work on (such as a tune on a CD, or a tune in a tunebook), I compare it against all other items that are already in the database. That's not possible to do - and to absolutely verify - if I no longer have all the objects at hand. This is an established practice in quality bibliographical work generally, called the "autopsy" method.
Another reason is that occasions arise later when I wonder if I made a data-entry error or a tune-identification error, so I need to pull out the original item again to make sure. Also sometimes sharp-eyed visitors such as yourself challenge my work
find errors in my data?
Who has helped find errors in my data?
Out of the hundreds of thousands of readers of irishtune.info over the years, and out of the hundreds who have written me for various reasons, there have been a handful of alert and careful musicians who have found the following real errors or omissions in my work. I was able to independently confirm their discoveries and then corrected my data accordingly. Here I would like to gratefully acknowledge their assistance:
- Daniel Parker of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, USA:
- 11 November 2019: Identified the BBow 2 source of #1458, which I had placed as a separate tune due to its unusual incipit.
- 6 November 2019: Discovered the close similarity between #288 and #4602.
- 1 November 2019: Noticed that I had put the LitN source of #1836 with the wrong (but musically similar) tune #1092.
- 16 October 2019: Discovered a bit of confusion and a couple misplaced tune sources between the similar tunes #3114, #3433, #2336, and #1184, which I then clarified and adjusted.
- 15 October 2019: After a couple different tries over the years, Daniel finally convinced me that the NH 1 source of #1813 is not a distinct tune, so I merged it with #1813.
- 20 June 2019: Discovered that I had placed the PO1 and DCB 1 sources of #111 off on their own as a separate tune.
- 25 May 2019: Identified that the VCbl and A PG sources of #1154 are the same tune. I had previously categorized them as separate tunes.
- 23 May 2019: Identified the FisherSt source of #1220, which I had previously categorized as a separate tune.
- 23 May 2019: Discovered the similarity between #3726 and #7077.
- 6 May 2019: Discovered that I had scattered the Dorian and Mixolydian settings of #2789 into separate tune entries.
- 6 May 2019: Noticed that I had put the unique D Mixolydian reel setting of #1925 off on its own.
- 29 April 2019: Identified that I had misplaced the SRn 1 source of #2599 under the similar tune #1880.
- 26 March 2019: Discovered the similarities between #1439, #2717, and #2229.
- 14 April 2019: Discovered the A RS source of #3585 off on its own as a separate E Major tune.
- John McMahon of Wexford, Ireland, 18 October 2019: Identified the Fisherst source of #6388, which I had mistakenly placed as a distinct tune based on some differences in their incipits.
- Christoph Zeiler of Vienna, Austria, 27 July 2019: Found the 1850 book source for #6628.
- Patrick Cavanagh of Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 9 April 2019: Discovered that I had the DShrdn 1 source of #5135 off on its own as a separate tune, and also pointed out the similarity of this tune with #6010.
- Christoph Zeiler of Vienna, Austria,
- 4 May 2019: Discovered a one-digit typographical error in #614 which caused readers to look at an irrelevant tune for comparison.
- 26 February 2019: Discovered a typographical error in the incipit transcription for #6783.
- 28 December 2019: Discovered the SBw source of #217 was misplaced off as a separate tune.
- Adam Work in Oberlin, Ohio, USA:
- 30 October 2018: Discovered the Dnú 4 source of #4327, the only source in D Mixolydian instead of D Major, off in its own tune record, which I then merged with #4327.
- 8 September 2018: Noticed the similarity between #4327 and #839, and that the TnGmMss source, which I had grouped with #839, is more like #4327 - I then discovered that the CRE 2 book source also had the same problem and moved both sources to #4327.
- Daniel Parker of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, USA:
- 21 December 2018: Identified that I had misplaced the A RS source, the lone E Major source, of #190 as its own separate tune.
- 18 December 2018: Identified that I had misplaced the SailCrvt source of #2599 under the similar tune #1880.
- 15 December 2018: Discovered I had split the sources of #93 into two different tunes, each in a different key. Also made the convincing case that I had misplaced the VCbl source of #652 under the very similar tune #4580.
- 21 October 2018: Discovered that I had the OCG and 2TapTrio sources of the Scottish tune #3015 off on their own just because they had used a different title. I used to not bother thoroughly checking the identity of tunes that are explicitly not Irish.
- 10 October 2018: Discovered that I had the D Mixolydian performances of #217 (normally in A Dorian) off on their own as a separate identity, so I merged the two as #217.
- 11 September 2018: Discovered, with the help of a certain Kenny from Aberdeen, Scotland, that I had the FlgDub source of #2064 off on its own as its own identity, so I merged them.
- 22 August 2018: Noted the similarity between #1901 and #1975.
- 6 August 2018: Noted the similarity between the slow airs #1478 and #5749.
- 5 August 2018: Identified the CTL 3 source of #2126, which I had previously categorized as a separate tune.
- 23 July 2018: Discovered I had placed the BC 3 source of #5511 under the wrong "Poll Ha'Penny" tune.
- 18 July 2018: Found I had misplaced the JV source of #890 off in its own corner as a separate tune, presumably because JV plays it with an unusual first bar.
- 17 July 2018: Found I had misplaced the ItS source of #1278 off in its own corner as a separate tune.
- 5 July 2018: Noted the similarity between polka #2686 and reel #1732.
- 24 June 2018: Identified the PS 3 source of #1494, which I had mistakenly categorized as a separate tune due to its unusual incipit.
- 6 June 2018: Noted the similarity or even identity between #42 and #1399.
- 6 June 2018: Discovered I had referenced the wrong "Peacock's Feather" in my tune-comparison
link between #3400 and #4377.
- 6 June 2018: Identified the IDM 1 source of #1849, which I had mistakenly categorized as a separate tune due to its unusual incipit.
- 27 April 2018: Identified the HB 4 source of #288, which I had misidentified as #1203 due to HB 4's reversal of the parts.
- 25 April 2018: Identified the JV source of #285, which I had missed and made its own separate tune mistakenly, because JV uses the 2nd part as an intro.
- 14 April 2018: Identified the FidDel source of #2408.
- 26 March 2018: Identified that I had missed calling out the comparison between #2519 and #4688.
- 2 March 2018: Called out the similarity between #4344 and #1813, as well as leading me to place the MM 2 source of #1813 there, as a better match than where I had it with #4344.
- 1 February 2018: Discovered the similarity between #5358 and #5144.
- 4 January 2018: Noticed that I had misidentified the McGrCool source of #1695 as a separate identity, presumably because that source does use a quite unusual incipit, so now I placed that source more appropriately within #1695.
- 2 and 4 January 2018: Despite initial resistance on my part, Daniel perservered and after some months pause now finally convinced me that:
- The POK source of #1478 was played on a fiddle tuned a full step flat, and therefore was played in A Dorian, not G Dorian.
- Track 8 of the IFM album was played tuned a half-step sharp and in conventional fiddle tuning, not a half-step flat and AEAE tuning, which in turn caused necessary revisions to my data for tunes #1581 and #5358.
- Jeff Lindqvist of Sweden, 6 August 2018: Suggested that #1578, for which I had so far only found the untitled SS 1 source, has the title "Girls of Martinfield," which in term led me to discover that in fact the HN "book" actually does have a source for #1578 under the title "Girls at Martinfield," so I could then document a title for #1578 for the first time.
- Bea of Northern Ireland, 24 July 2018: Suggested adding the JCtBRn source
of #2696, which I had actually placed as a separate tune with the WFO 2 since both sources reverse the parts. So then I merged the two tunes as #2696.
- Michel Sikiotakis of France, 14 June 2018: Identified the untitled, unusual-key MOC 1 source of #3033 which I had previously placed as its own tune .
- Christoph Zeiler of Vienna, Austria, 28 March 2018: Proposed that my grouping of many sources of "Pinch of Snuff," which I had lumped together as one tune with the disclaimer, "various numbers and orders of parts", could and should be divided into two different tunes, along a 3-part Donegal vs. a 2-part non-Donegal line. He also identified that I had the MMR 2 source of the 2-part tune off in its own tune record, which I agreed needed to be grouped here. Prompted by his perspective, I undertook a careful analysis and decided that I now had enough data (unlike when I first lumped together most "Pinch of Snuff" sources some 20 years earlier) to clarify that actually three different tunes can be perceived in this group of tune sources: the 3-part Donegal #1290, the 2-part "non-Donegal" #3242, and the rare Vincent Campbell tune #7627.
- Craig Pitman of USA, 21 March 2018: Identified the untitled tune on CTL 7, which I had standing alone as its own tune, as being #2271, so I then merged those tune records.
- Thomas Burdick of France, 13 March 2018: Identified that the BB 4 source of #3520 is the same song as the sources I had collected as a separate tune identity, due to BB 4 using an unusual title for the song, so now they are all under #3520.
- Chris Corbett of London, UK:
- 12 February 2018: Discovered that the Whr source of #1717 was hiding in a separate tune record under a different title, so I merged the duplicate records as #1717.
- 3 February 2018: Discovered that I had mistakenly placed (back in the 1990s, it turns out) the JDJO source of #7601 within #142, which shares a title but no musical similarity.
- Patrick Cavanagh of Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 9 December 2017: Discovered the "strong similarity" between #3667 and #4368.
- Daniel Parker of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, USA:
- 19 December 2017: Observed that my description of #243 as in Minor mode – a decision I had made back in the 1990s – is not as good a fit as Dorian, a point I agreed with.
- 18 October 2017: Observed the similarity between #781 and #3268, which in turn led me to discover and fix a musical transcription error I had made for #3268.
- 20 July 2017: Pointed out that #3993 is better described as in Mixolydian mode.
- Gary Martin of Massachusetts, USA, 1 September 2017: Discovered that I had two separate entries for #2719 due to the fact that musicians often play this tune with reversed parts.
- Christoph Zeiler of Vienna, Austria, 27 August 2017: Discovered that I had two separate entries for #1285 because one source played it with reversed parts.
- Erich Marschner of Ellicott City, Maryland, USA, 7 August 2017: Discovered some oddities in his comparison of tunes #1511 and #3897 which in turn led me to discover that I had made two errors some years ago: 1) The audio incipit my software prepared for track 6 of the CTL 6 album was from the wrong bits of that track. 2) I had assigned the KOS and SA sources of #3897 to tune #1511 incorrectly.
- Chris Corbett, 31 July 2017: Noticed that I had left the MMR 3 source of #3220 as its own tune identity, so now I placed it properly within #3220.
- Lesl Harker, 27 May 2017: Suggested an alternate title for #3774 which led me to discover a close musical similarity to #1600.
- Nicolas Brown of Michigan, USA, 18 May 2018: Pointed out the similarity between slide #3886 and reel #6012.
- Alan Snyder, 14 May 2017: Identified that I had mistakenly trusted the title given by the SE 1 source of #5897 and had therefore misplaced it under slow air #741. (I generally do not thoroughly investigate the identity of slow airs.)
- Patrick Cavanagh of Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 17 April 2017: Noted that when I created tune identity #7542 as distinct from #113, I had failed to shift the matching FONC source over to #7542.
- Rolf Gidlow of East Burke, Vermont, USA, 30 March 2017: Discovered that the WC entry was missing in the Bibliography section of #1185, apparently because I had accidentally skipped over transcription #116 during my indexing work on the tunebook WC originally.
- Patrick Cavanagh of Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 23 March 2017: Noticed the similarity between #235 and #4973.
- Patrick Cavanagh of Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 7 March 2017: Noticed the similarity between #1606 and #2396.
- Frederic Pouille of Denver, Colorado, USA, 28 February 2017: Correctly identified the Drv 1 source of #369, which I had mistakenly indexed as an independent tune, probably because I had made some minor transcription errors for the Drv 1 incipit.
- Christoph Zeiler of Vienna, Austria:
- 4 October 2016: Correctly identified that #1407 should be described as in A Major, not A Mixolydian.
- 22 September 2016: Discovered that I had mistakenly classified the E Minor sources of #4496 (on VK 1 and in book JKg 3) as a distinct tune, so I then eliminated that separate tune and incorporated those two sources into #4496, which previously only included D Minor sources.
- Erich Marschner of Ellicott City, Maryland, USA, 14 September 2016: helped refine the nature of the noted relationship between #2057 and #6055, specifically pointing out that their similarity particularly appears after offsetting #2057 as if were missing its first two bars.
- Christoph Zeiler of Vienna, Austria:
- 5 October 2016: Identified the DCB 1 source of #4241 which I had mistakenly set up as a separate tune, and also linked it to the 1001 source of #4241, which in turn led me to more clearly separate the identities (and therefore also some sources) of #1018 and #4241.
- 31 March 2016: Identified the JMcK source of #3883, which I had mistakenly indexed as its own distinct tune because that fiddler changed the first bar his first time through.
- 26 March 2016: Found a transcription error of mine, correcting two notes of #1681.
- 9 March 2016: Noticed that I had split the various sources of #2534 into two different tune records. I had done that (accidentally) because there are two different ways to start this tune, but the two variants are compatible enough that I then merged them.
- Patrick Cavanagh of Silver Spring, Maryland, USA:
- 18 April 2016: Noticed the similarity of #7114 and #645, and pointed out - correctly - that I had possibly misplaced the RskaHll source of #7114 as belonging to #645.
- 12 March 2016: Noticed the sources of #2434 as two separate tune identities, which accurately reflected two different ways it is played. I had, however, not originally noticed this relationship and now merged them as #2434, consistent with the tune-identity principles throughout the database.
- 9 March 2016: Found the Drv 4 source of #6266 off on its own as a redundant, separate tune identity, so I moved it to where it belonged.
- 8 March 2016: Found the LKPD source of #5966 off on its own as a redundant, separate tune identity, so I moved it to where it belonged. Likewise for the NFBolg source of #5997.
- 7 March 2016: Discovered an anomaly that led me to realize my original indexing work (dating back to the 1990s) on the Tri II source of #1223 had mistaken the band's creative variation on the end of the preceding tune as the beginning of a new tune, which in turn caused me to create a whole separate tune identity for that source which I could now permanently abandon.
- 6 March 2016: Discovered that I had misidentified the SN 3 and MM book sources of #1678 as its own independent tune, so I merged those records as #1678.
- 3 March 2016: Discovered that I had misidentified the untitled source of #2481 from MotS 3 as its own independent tune, so I merged those records as #2481.
- 2 March 2016: Noted that I had failed to move the PS 6 and JLavelle sources of #5769 to their proper identity at the time I originally created that tune record. Apparently I had mistakenly left them as belonging to #348 with my own remark still standing to the effect that I acknowledged that their first part didn't really fit with #348.
- Marko Packard of Massachusetts, USA, 4 January 2016: Sent photographic evidence of the LP Leader Lea2005 which proved that my secondary sources had incorrectly led me to repeat their claim that that LP was the originally published source of ST BST, so I removed that claim.
- Colm Nestor, 30 December 2015: Pointed out that the "Kitty Linnanes" tune on MSCB, which I had failed to match to anything else, is actually just a setting of #888.
- Rev. John Quinn of Gortletteragh, Mohill, Co. Leitrim, 15 September 2015: Wrote to say that a tune from the Grier mss. called "Miss Dunbar" was like #1036. That led me to discover that when I had originally worked through the album McNamFam I had instead identified their recording of "Miss Dunbarr" as #3546, which is indeed equally close (as #1036 is) in the 1st part - but not as close as #1036 in the 2nd part. So I changed the identification of the McNamFam source to #1036 and added the discovery of the similarity between #1036 and #3546.
- Pat Wilcox of Delaware, Ohio, 25 July 2015: Noticed that I had cataloged the several sources of #1611 that are titled "Hennessey's" as a different tune, so I then merged the tunes under #1611.
- Lesl Harker, 4 July 2015: Correctly pointed out that the unique Padraig O'Keefe / Denis Murphy / Julia Clifford setting of #1770, which I had identified as more like #1409 on four recordings, really are more like #1770. So I moved those four recordings from #1409 to #1770.
- Christoph Zeiler of Vienna, Austria:
- 25 May 2015: Suggested that #659 should be described as in D Mixolydian, not D Major. I agreed and made the change.
- 2 April 2015: Noticed that my original transcription of "Ceathru Cavan" on track 11 of JJK was off by one beat, which had caused me to not match it with its correct identity #294.
- 23 February 2015: Noticed that my transcription of #6882 was missing an eighth note.
- 31 January 2015: Recognized the "Jim McBride's" jig on WaMoDub as #1638, so I abandoned "Jim McBride's" as a separate tune.
- 30 January 2015: Discovered that the separate entry I had for the tune known widely as "Reavey's No. 9" was actually the same tune as Reavey's composition "Fisherman's Island" which I had indexed separately as #636, which is where I then merged all of those sources.
- Pat Wilcox of Delaware, Ohio, USA, 6 December 2014: Discovered I had made a typo about 15 years ago in the name of Felix Doran the piper in his tracks on the album GP.
- Hans Dechant of Germany, 19 November 2014: Pointed out a problem that led me to discover that I had selected the wrong section of track 10 on the SC album as the audio preview for #1705.
- Christoph Zeiler of Vienna, Austria, 17 November 2014: Found two clear errors of mine (possibly simply data-entry errors) related to identifying the NFBolg source of #4115 and the WFO 3 source of #2463.
- Mike McGinty of Connecticut, USA, 7 November 2014: Correctly identified the untitled 1st tune on track 2 of JRSLCB 2 as #1081
- Christoph Zeiler of Vienna, Austria, 24 October 2014: Observed that two entries identified as Killanan's Fancy and Turnpike Gate, respectively, were actually the same tune, just in two different keys. I then merged those as #1030.
- John McMahon of Co. Wexford, 24 April 2014: Discovered that I had mistakenly identified Eileen Ivers's G-major, somewhat creative setting of #2889 (played by everyone else in A) as an entirely separate tune, so then I was able to merge those records as #2889.
- John McMahon of Co. Wexford, 23 April 2014: Suggested that an untitled tune I had indexed in G Major was just a transposition from D Major of a different tune. I then found an A and D Major setting already in the index as #1940, so I merged all those sources as #1940.
- Lesl Harker, 13 April 2014: Pointed out the similarity between two of the settings of #2381 that I had defined as two distinct tunes, and that led me eventually to combine all the various settings of #2381 under that identity, since I could find no clear way to prove that any one of the settings, despite their signicant differences, had become established as distinct from the other settings, given how much overlap there was between all of them.
- Christoph Zeiler, 1 March 2014: Pointed out that the two different Martin Hayes recordings of a jig called "John Naughton's" in G Dorian, which I had cataloged back in the 1990s as a distinct tune, were actually the same tune as the A Dorian "Old Man Dillon" #1005.
- Earl Cameron of Wisconsin, USA, 6 February 2014: Correctly identified the untitled tune on track 11 of PRynne 1 as #752.
- Christoph Zeiler, 23 December 2013: Helpfully identified my data-entry error crediting Andy instead of Tony for performing one of the tunes on TOCAM.
- Bob Pfeffer of New Jersey, USA, 5 October 2013: Noticed a data-entry error which had switched the mode of #648 to Mixolydian instead of Major
- Patrick Cavanagh of Silver Spring, Maryland, 11 July 2013: Identified the untitled tune on track 11 of KLO as #3403.
- Lesl Harker 15 May 2013: Was simply complimenting my work in identifying the Gan Ainm tune on JOS 1 as tune #1076, and mentioned that it was the same tune as "Denis Igoe's" from her book of Mike Rafferty's tunes. That led me to discover that I had separately identified "Denis Igoe's" as a different tune record, just in a different key and a slightly different setting (centered on the Northern one from A RC). I then merged all those sources as #1076.
- Kevin Fontaine, of Massachusetts, 10 April 2013: Noticed that in my initial work on the album SailCrvt two years earlier, I had accidentally skipped the 2nd tune on track 16. Kevin also correctly identified it as #2908.
- Robert Alfredsson of Sweden, 12 February 2013: Noticed that in my work on album Ch W back in March 2000, I had made the mistake of trusting the Chieftain's liner notes for tracks 10 and 12. In track 10 they actually play one more tune than they actually list titles for (I had omitted their unmentioned 3rd tune), and in track 12 I had failed to take note of the final tune they play.
Also, regarding my even older work on the album Ch 4, he correctly noted that I had (tentatively, at least) misidentified the 2nd tune on track 1, Paddy Moloney's florid solo, and that it is actually #593. Furthermore, he identified the untitled air on track 5 of that album as #3873, which I had apparently entirely skipped in my original work.
- Kevin Fontaine of Massachusetts, 9 December 2012: Noticed that I had described #532 as an AABB structure tune when in fact it has an AABBCC structure.
- Lesl Harker 6-9 December 2012: Noticed that I had misidentified the "O'Brien's" hornpipe on track 15 of MMR 1 (a mistake dating back to my early work in the 1990s), which led me to reanalyze it and recognize it as a somewhat unique setting of #2955.
- Stanton of Indiana, USA, 31 July 2012: Recognized that I had miscategorized the Lu 3 source of #1542 as a separate tune.
- Mark Anderson of Sydney, Australia, 30 June 2012: Shared his opinions about the identity of a number of tunes on Seamus Tansey's Easter Snow. He definitely gets credit for identifying Tansey's "Mick Flatley's Delight" as #1363. In other cases I can't go as far as calling Mark's identifications as "the same tune." Instead I'm giving Mark credit here for noticing the following similarities between tunes, such as between Tansey's #3446 with the more common tune #68. Likewise, prompted by Mark's suggestions, I linked Tansey's tune #3447 with #3469, matched the start of Tansey's #3462 with the start of the common tune #203, and matched part of Tansey's tune #3463 with a part of the classic tune #669 as well as its entire general outline with #937.
- Christoph Zeiler, 27 June 2012: Found the O'Neill's source for #5131.
- Christoph Zeiler, 1 June 2012: Noticed that I had split the sources of #2698 across two different tune entries. I was presumably misled because the emphasized first note differed in these settings. So I combined them all as #2698.
- Christoph Zeiler, 29 April 2012: Let me know that Mick O'Brien's pipes are a B set, not a (rather unlikely) A set on track 5 of MOB.
- Grey Larsen, 2 January 2012: Noticed that I had accidentally transcribed #4452 in E Major instead of A Major.
- Christoph Zeiler, 11 December 2011: Pointed out that I had been maintaining two separate records for #115: as a slide and as a jig. I then merged those records.
- Conor Caldwell of Belfast, Ireland, 17 November 2011: Observed some confusion among my sources for #1429 and #1430, which I then cleared up.
- Shannon Heaton of Boston, Massachusetts, 16 November 2011: Pointed out the close similarity between #89 and #2329.
- Michel Sikiotakis of Paris, France, 23 September 2011: Noticed that I had misidentified the first tune on track 19 of BFair.
- Edward G. Lynch, 19 September 2011: Discovered that sources for tune #2964 were split across two different tune records, which I then combined as #2964.
- RWW Taylor, 3 May 2011: Another report in his series of research notes to me (see below):
- Saw that O'Neill's transcriptions under the title "Barney O'Neill" are the same tune as #681.
- Saw that O'Neill's transcriptions under the title "The Girl with the Laughing Eyes" are the same tune as #1858.
- Discovered that I had categorized the D Major version of #1020 as a separate tune, which I've now merged together.
- Recognized that two different tune records actually concerned the same tune, now merged as #1032.
- Saw that O'Neill's transcription "The Bouncing Boy" is quite similar to #1112.
- Noticed similarity of 1st parts of #1708 and #3739.
- Observed that the slide and jig settings of #880, which I had previously identified as two separate tunes, could be considered the same tune, which I agreed with at this point, so I merged these sources together.
- Found the transcriptions of #543 and #5496 that are in the book JKg 3. The fact that my tune-identification method should have previously found these, but didn't, led me to discover an error in my database which had prevented me - for several years - from scanning through reels in the JKg 3 book when I was searching for matches in my entire database. This discovery in turn led me to fix the problem and then successfully identify a number of the remaining unidentified reels in the JKg 3 book.
- Noticed the similarity of the "Kilcogy Reel" transcription in book JKg 3 with #466, and likewise found the transcription of #5253 in book B&S. Again, as above, the peculiar fact that I hadn't already caught both of these myself led me to discover bugs in my tune-identification system related to natural signs appearing on strong beats of a tune, which I've now fixed.
- Found the transcription of #1904 in book JKg 3 even though Keegan transposed the order of this tune's parts.
- Found the B&S and DM 3 transcriptions of #4958 despite the reversal of this tune's parts in those books.
- Discovered that I had cataloged as a separate tune a D-Mixolydian setting of #1409, so I then merged the associated sources.
- Discovered the relationship (or perhaps imitation) between #1941 and #908.
- Discovered the relationship between #1242 and #2102.
- Found the transcription of #5497 in the book JKg 3.
- Found the transcription of #298 in the book 1850.
- Found the transcription of #1905 in the book 1001.
- Found the transcription of #4300 in the book B&S.
- Kenny Hadden, 30 March 2011: Identified the untitled 2nd tune on track 10 of FG 2 as #2373.
- Christoph Zeiler, 28 November 2010: Noticed a rhythmic error in my transcription of Seamus Ennis's performance of #563.
- Padraig McCluskey: 12 September 2010: Noticed that there are in fact 3 tunes, labeled only as 2 tunes, at the end of track 3 on OMcA.
- Pat Wilcox, 26 May 2010: Identified the first untitled tune on track B.6 of Boys 8.
- Robert Alfredsson, 13 November 2009: Identified the 4th and 6th untitled O'Carolan pieces on track 8 of Ch 5.
- Naka Ishii, 7 September 2009: Noticed that I had missed recognizing the transcription in book ER as belonging with #989.
- Philippe Varlet, 25 June 2009: Pointed out on IRTRAD-L that an A-Dorian setting of #3018 is in Bulmer & Sharpley.
- Steve Abel, 9 Feb. 2009: He innocently wrote me to say he knew a particular jig under a different title, which led me to discover several problems with my work on my records for no less than four separate jigs, all vaguely similar to each other, which eventually led me to a much tidier and more accurate sorting of all those sources, especially jigs #679 and #1887.
- RWW Taylor, 1 Sept. 2008: Another report in his series of tunebook-related notes to me (see below), this one focused mainly on airs, songs, and the like:
- Kevin Fontaine, 26 April 2008: Noticed that the two Paddy Fahy hornpipes I had as #1502 and #1503 were actually the same tune. I had seen them as separate tunes because one is a flute-compatible variation on this fiddle tune, but on second thought I combined these sources under #1502.
- RWW Taylor, 15 April 2008: Another report in his series of tunebook-related notes to me (see below):
- All three O'Neill sources for #1176 and #4586, and for the "Stagger the Buck" settings of #882.
- Notation errors in my transcriptions of #384 and #719.
- The fact that the tune for song #4195 has a transcription as a slow air in the book JKgn.
- The FF book source for #3335, #3437 and for #3664.
- The 1850 and Krsn sources for #1486, and for the "Funny Mistake" setting of #3980.
- Suggested that 1850 #779 and its twin 1001 #56 belong to tune #306, which isn't correct, but his suggestion led me to realize that those two do belong, in at least a general way, to tune #4798.
- The Cr source for #1671.
- The Roche vol. 2 #253 source (albeit only a relation of similarity) for #3736.
- Christoph Zeiler, 1 April 2008: Pointed out something which let me discover that back in 2005, when I divided the many, somewhat similar "Rakes of Kildare" sources as two distinct jigs (#1638 and #4273), I had forgotten to move the 1001 #108 source over to tune #4273 together with when I moved its identical twin, 1850 #847.
- Anonymous, 20 March 2008: Suggested that #1580, a Cape Breton reel, was actually the Irish hornpipe "The Flowing Tide" (which, by the way, is #653). Thanks to this anonymous prompt, I gave #1580 tune a back-to-back comparison against #653 and added a note that at least their 2nd parts are alike.
- RWW Taylor, 3 March 2008: Submitted another report in his series of notes (see below), drawing on his tunebook database:
- The 1001 source for #868.
- The 1850 #193 source for another song-air setting of #701, as well as the Krsn source for Hawk's Hornpipe, which I include here only as a partially-relevant transcription.
- The Roche source for #4467.
- The 1850 source (as a song-air) for jig #3045.
- All three O'Neill-edition sources for the "Best in the Bag" setting of #801, and for #2671.
- RWW Taylor, 26 January 2008: Submitted another report in his series (see below), pointing out the following tunebook-related discoveries:
- The 1001 source for #1245.
- All three O'Neill-edition sources for tunes #1314 and #2245.
- The similarity between the O'Neill's sources for #1862 and #5081.
- The somewhat similar source at 1850 #970 for #409.
- Christoph Zeiler, 10 January 2008: Pointed out that book 1001 actually does have a transcription of tune #863. Thanks!
- RWW Taylor, 31 December 2007: Submitted a third report (see 8 December and 11 November below) of issues and questions he had collected while working on his own tune database. He earned credit for the following discoveries:
- My mistake in including transcription #54 from the book Allan's Irish Fiddler in my bibliography for tune #172. Although it does bear some distant resemblances to #172 (and its cousins) in parts, in fact it did not musically correspond to any tune in the Index to date.
- All three O'Neill-edition sources for tune #1115.
- The CRE 2 source for #3355.
- The fact that IBPS transcription #29 is vaguely similar to tune #3976.
- A typographical error ('5' instead of '3') in my list of titles for #942.
- Christoph Zeiler, 12 December 2007: Pointed out that book 1001 actually does have a transcription of tune #2417. Thanks!
- RWW Taylor, 8 December 2007: Submitted another long report (after his 11 November one, see below) of tunebook sources he had found missing during his own database work, and some other types of problems:
- Asked me whether the unusual version of polka #3745 which I had found on LAC is in fact the same tune as the more conventional setting of the polka which I had previously identified as an unrelated tune, found on the Beg 1 album and in book HN. His suspicion turned out to be right, so I then combined all those sources under #3745. Thanks, RWW!
- Noted the similarity between the polka #2885 and the song #2327.
- Noted that I mistakenly typed the page number instead of the transcription number in my reference to the 1850 source for #1602.
- Found a typographical error of mine, where I typed page number 124 instead of 134 for Krassen's transcription of "Molly What Ails You?", at tune #1021.
- All three O'Neill-edition sources for tune #1049.
- The fact that the transcription "Old Horned Sheep" found in all three O'Neill-edition sources is partially similar to #1570.
- O'Neill's additional transcription (the setting titled "Boys of Galway") in all three O'Neill editions, for #2993.
- The 1850 and Krsn sources for tunes #55 and #2727.
- An additional source in 1850 (O'Neill's #1006) for #908.
- In 1850, yet another (a third transcription, at O'Neill's #897, to add to the two I had already found) for #2485, as well as the corresponding transcription in Krassen's edition.
- The FF sources for tunes #726, #778, #790, #2460, #2885, #3719 and the partially relevant one for #3157.
- The 1850 sources for #130, #790, #1639, #1738, #1848, #2327 and #3157.
- The 1001 source for #788, #5026, and an additional 1001 source for #2059 (O'Neill's #358).
- The fact that Allan's transcription #93 is partly like #139, as well as the the fact that Krassen, on his p. 207, mistakenly omitted his intended transcription of #139 and instead included a second, duplicate transcription of #1861.
- Bob Pfeffer, 4 December 2007: Recognized that the new jig I had identified on KitRec track 11 was in fact the same jig as #2600, even though on KitRec, the musicians chose to put the last part of the jig first, which had thrown me off the track. So I combined those records under #2600. Thanks, Bob.
- RWW Taylor, 11 November 2007: Submitted a lengthy report of issues he collected over a long period of time while working on his own tune database, one apparently more focused on tunebooks. Put concisely, he found for me:
- All three O'Neill-edition book sources for both tune #1671 and for tune #1910.
- The 1001 book source for tune #1890.
- An additional 1001 book source for tune #1845, a mostly-similar tune at O'Neill's #320.
- The 1850 book sources for tune #223, tune #2798, and tune #1758.
- An additional 1850 book source for tune #1762, at O'Neill's #1475.
- The 1850 and the JOL book sources for tune #2410.
- A typographical error in my bibliography for tune #1697, where I had typed the page number instead of the tune number for the 1850 book source.
- A typographical error in my musical transcription of tune #4292.
- Bill Harker, 21 September 2007: Noticed that the "Gan Ainm" tune on track 8 of Jerry O'Sullivan's Invasion is in fact the same tune as #2021. Now fixed!
- Joe Bowbeer, 11 September 2007: Noticed that I accidentally used a wrong tune ID number in my comment about the similarity between Scatter the Mud #1728 and Maid of Tramore #1028. Thanks!
- Anonymous, 13 February 2007: Noticed that I missed that Queen of the Fair #1623 actually does have a transcription in O'Neill's 1001 tunebook. Thanks!
- Jerome Colburn, 30 January 2007: Pointed out on IRTRAD-L that my bar count for Arthur Darley's unusual-meter jig #2907 was wrong. Upon reexamination I decided that it was in fact not objectively countable at all (at least as played in the Irish tradition), so I removed my bar count.
- Thomas Young, 25 and 28 January 2007: Noticed two more errors of mine regarding two tunes on Frankie Gavin's FG 3 album, even though Laurent had found a different error back in March 2005 (see below). Thomas first noticed that I had not accounted for the unlabeled 3rd tune on track 9, which of course is The Steeplechase #1834. A few days later, he also noticed that I had failed to recognize that the untitled tune that starts track 15 is, of course, Mullingar Races #1367. As I explained to Thomas, my records show that I originally worked on this Frankie Gavin album during the final throes of writing my PhD thesis in early 2002, and that was clearly a bad time for me to try do any careful tune identifying!
- Michael Gregory, 30 November 2006: Noticed that polka #3635, recorded by Johnny O'Leary and Donncha Lynch, is actually the same tune (but in a different key, and with a somewhat different opening) as the polka #877. So I combined those sources under #877 and abandoned #3635.
- Anonymous, 10 October 2006: Noticed that I listed the track number of tune #3335 as recorded on Ch AIE as 2 instead of 3.
- Kevin Krell, 23 August 2006: Noticed that I didn't include the alternate spelling "McGlinchey" from the WFO 2 source for Brendan McGlinchey's last name in the composer credit for tune #419. (Until WFO 2, all of my sources for that tune had spelled his last name only as "McGlinchy.")
- Kevin Krell, 26 July 2006: Noticed that I entered 1993 (the reissue year) instead of 1981 (the original publication date) as the date for track 18 (disc 2) on the album WFO 1.
- Philip Smith, 14 March 2006: Noticed that the polka #3490 is actually just the polka tune #1450, but in a different key. So I then rewrote the #1450 info in light of the additional tune sources which I moved there from #3490. Then I abandoned #3490.
- Laurent (from Brittany, France), 7 March 2005: Noticed that the untitled 3rd tune which I had not yet identified on track 3 of the album FG 3 was actually Maudabawn Chapel, tune #1236. So I abandoned tune #2900.
- Lia Zito, 11 June 2004: Noticed that I had two different tunes set up to describe one jig, #961, since some sources were in D Major and some were in G Major, and other very minor differences. So I made some minor adjustments in light of this insight, and at some later date I decided to abandon tune #2932 since more data was making it clear that these were all one tune in the Irish tradition. Lia was right in the end.
- Lia Zito, 8 June 2004: Noticed that the reel recorded as "Sonny's Return" on the KH album is actually the same tune as Paddy Lynn's Delight, tune #1513. So I abandoned tune #1796.
- Anonymous, 23 April 2004: Noticed that a tune unhelpfully titled as "Jim Coleman's" on the Drv album is actually the Controversial Reel, tune #386, although in D Major instead of the usual G Major. So I abandoned tune #2682.
- Paul de Grae, 14 December 2003: Noticed that a couple of my sources for the similar-sounding hornpipes Bee's Wing, tune #3437, and The Wonder, tune #3439, were assigned to the wrong one of those tunes. All fixed, thanks to Paul. Later I started playing Bee's Wing myself, which means that error definitely won't happen again!
- John McGann, 18 November 2002: Noticed that I mistakenly categorized his composition The Nightlight, tune #3502, as a reel instead of as a hornpipe.