An oh yeah. I wanted to say how we anticipate using the site at our house, where my husband is the fiddler.

Of course first there will be his own learning.

But we jam with people who live fairly far away. Some are note readers, some aren't. With your resources, we can e-mail them a link and say, "OK, next month let's try THIS one...." and then when we get together people will have some fraction of a clue where the piece is going, and we can make it our own and start plugging these items into the sets we do here and there.

Recent additions to our printed music include Bonnie Rideout's CD and book and then there is a nice book of ancient celtic fiddle tunes I can't recall the title for. I know your site focuses on old-timey, but I bet we will find some overlap as we work through those materials as well.

I am also going to find the material useful as I work up hymn arrangements-- to listen to a lot of the MIDIs and get the sound of them in my head-- it will help us adapt a lot of material into a style that leans on old-time, because that is the sound emerging from our Saturday Night service we do weekly, acoustically.

So anyhow, I just wnated to let you know that not only is your site wonderful and wonderfully simple in operation and layout, it can have a wide variety of applications and can impact a large number of people in a powerful way. As soon as our new computer arrives I will be "there" quite a bit, and I look forward to seeing the increase in my husband's enjoyment of the process of learning new tunes and new approaches to them.

~Susan

CONGRATULATIONS ON A GREAT SITE.