Jack, you said "Mrs McLeod" was copied into a lot of manuscripts by fiddlers with short arms Short arms??? Why? I would guess that is sometimes how transmission happens. If you go to a regular session some tunes stick. I had a tune in my head that I didn't know the name of, no-one I asked knew what it was, I wasn't sure if I'd invented it. Then Whitby FW came round again and in the conservative club someone (quite likely the person I 'caught' it from) played it again and told me it was a Euro tune (Still forget the bane). Books and online sources are a big source too.
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