Well thanks for all that. Much good advice I guess.

We started as a Begginers Session around 6 years ago and I guess we are improvers now. We picked up the tune book idea from Beginners Sessions at Whitby and Shrewsbury. Most of us have never played in sessions before.In my limited experience of sessions nobody said what the tunes were and they played so quick I could never join in.

We have engaged a large number of people who can read a bit and we play steady. The tunes we play are mostly English and have been played for between 10 and 400 years.

We enjoy what we do.

If I could return to the original point of this post:

"Sometimes we play all in together then second time fiddles only, third time squeezers and so on with variations with As and Bs.

Can anybody pass on anty other 'arrangments' for want of a better word? "