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 for the transcriptions here. 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 complaints about the difficulties in using the later book(s) at a dance. The main change is that many tunes have written-out parts that have been compacted by using repeats with multiple endings, to help make them readable on small screens.