I said:-"I had questioned fiddle, as there are Secundo parts to this MS which utilise the normal fiddle range, from below middle C up to (in abc), whereas the is absent from this Primo instrument."

!I don't know what happened there. Sopmething ate some bits of it. It was meant to say "...from _G,_ below middle C up to _a_ on the first string (_G,_ to _a_ in abc), whereas the _G,_ is absent..."

Greg, from my time with the VMP tunes I would say that top _b_ happens occasionally in fiddle MSs, but _c'_ is rarer and _d'_ is very rare. Once c' and d' start appearing I look for the other evidences of classical technique, e.g. why stop at _d'_? How much else of the tune can be got from 3rd pos.?

I think I just worked out what I did wrong; I must have enclosed the notes in wedgy things instead of underscores.