You can also convert Noteworthy dots to .pdfs and attach them to emails for people who don't want to buy the software themselves. There's a useful thing called 'PDF Creator' which can be chosen instead of a printer when you select File/Print.

In our early days, when the Lewes Favourites were in bundles of sheets and we used to hand out copies at the sessions, we would ask people not to pay but to make a few copies and bring them back to the group if they could. This meant that anyone with unsupervised access to the office photocopier could run off a few and increase our stock. Andy Warburton described this as 'furtive reproduction'.

We occasionally choose a tune as optional homework and suggest that people practice it for the next month's session.

Tootle pip,

Valmai (Lewes)

By the way, here's our handout with dates for next year. It's a good time to put out lists like this as people have recently got their new diaries:

ENGLISH TUNES PRACTICE SESSIONS 2009
'The Lewes Favourites'

These are a regular opportunity to practice tunes popular in local English sessions, whatever instrument you play, to whatever standard, and whether or not you read music. It's a chance to identify some of those tunes you recognise when you hear them but can't quite remember, to put the names to familiar tunes, and to play them over until you are sure of them. You can record the sessions. Admission is free.

You can download 180 of the tunes plus 33 recent additions in Noteworthy Composer, ABC and midi form from the Lewes Arms Folk Club website www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/: go to Links and then to Lewes Favourites. The 'Lewes Favourites' tune book compiled by Andy Warburton contains background information and pictures as well. It is available from the contacts below or through the website, price £10 plus £1 p&p, by cheque payable to 'Lewes Arms Folk Club'. A supplement of the additions is available at the sessions.

We meet in the Lewes Arms club-room, Mount Place, Lewes BN7 1YH from 8.00 p.m. onwards on the third Wednesday of every month, except in January & February.

13th. Jan (Tuesday)        
10th. February (Tuesday)
18th. March                
22nd. April        
20th. May
17th. June
15th. July
19th. August        
16th. September        
21st. October
18th. November
16th. December

Bryan Creer, 12, Fife Court, 99 The Hydneye, Hampden Park BN22 9DD 01323 505372 Bryancreer@aol.com
Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace, Lewes BN7 2DL        01273 476757 valmaigoodyear@aol.com