for those newcomers to the "Great Tune Search"

it was pointed out some time ago that there are/were a lot of songs in the Digital Tradition without posted tunes. A number of people, among them John_In_Brisbane and Alison (and Joe Offer) plus others began trying to find those tunes and post them - either through submissions to the DT or posting here in the forum through Miditxt. About a year ago the current posted version of the DT was "missing" somewhere around 3784 tunes, though for some of those the tunes were either obvious (for some parodies) or the tune directions pointed towards a tune in the DT.

it was about that time I volunteered to coordinate a drive to find as many as possible of those "missing tune" In the last 13 months the "list" has been reduced down to (approximately) 2207 tunes. (This does not count the however many Hollowfox found that went direct to DickG at Old Songs.)

Of course when the latest DT comes out - all that will change again - but the current "missing tunes" list is still available from me - PM or e-mail me an e-mail address and I will send it to you.