Thanks for all your help folks. I would have been back to this much sooner except that I have been teaching an intensive two-week course here (not music!!!) and have been immersed in work-- Also the reason I lumped Scottish/Irish/and etc togther under "Celtic"-- it seems to be a generally recognized term that could save me a lot of typing! :)

I teach with my husband, a rather compulsive multiple Virgo, who prefers I not spend time doing other things (like music! computers! etc!) when we are teaching. Since my fiddler friend is due here in August I really wanted to get this going a little faster, for my niece's sake. So please excuse shortcuts. And thanks for speeding my efforts.

Just to clarify-- what she really needs are simple easy tunes that don't require much ornamentation, are on the slow side, are easy to memorize (though she's pretty good with that) and don't require skipping all over the fingerboard, as she is very new to this and her school instrument is a clarinet!!! she is a singer so I have been teaching her to sing the tunes...

Thanks again

Bekki