The Tom Anderson Collection Vol. 3

The last collection of seventy-six compositions from Shetland fiddler and composer Tom Anderson.\n\nThe third and final volume, comprising slow airs, marches, reels, jigs, two-steps, waltzes, strathspeys and hornpipes.\n\nBowings are provided for all the tunes, based for the most part on Tom Anderson's own manuscript instructions.\n\nAll the melodies come with fully worked-out accompanimental chord symbols appropriate for piano, accordion or fretted stringed instruments.\n\nForeword by Charles Simpson.\n\nPublished by the Hardie Press, Edinburgh.\n\n"Tom - Tammy as Shetland knew him - was unique in his field: fiddler, composer, collector, teacher, saver of tradition. It's safe to say nobody else came anywhere near matching his activities and achievements, and those proved to be a dominant influence on the Shetland musical scene after 1945. Tammy laid the foundations upon which the current success of Shetland's music is built, and which produced for our community a worldwide reputation for its thriving musical tradition, second to none." Charles Simpson.\n