G'day Sedayne,

There are transcriptions of two of the local Mudgee (town in NSW's western districts) dance tunes: The Mudgee Schottische and The Mudgee Waltz, as played by Cyril ("Bunny") Abbot in John Meredith's Folk Songs of Australia and the men and women who sang them. Back in his 1950s collecting period, Meredith usually had a musical session with a number of loacl musicians at Cyril's home ... so I suspect there may be more tape of Cyril than just those two tunes. (It may well have been the Abbott house that was used for recording other passing musicians and singers.)

Anyway, it was rather remiss of me not to get copy recordings back when I constructed my replica of the "Kerosene Tin Dulcimer" as a "show and touch" item at the workshop series! I can't see any direct link to these tunes on the National Library of Australia's (or MusicAustralia's) web sites. I'll run this past a friend who works for the NLA as a field collector ... and see if I can get them as CD-R copies - from which I can extract MP3 files (or similar files) small enough to email.

regards,

Bob Bolton