This is a collection of various Celtic (mainly) tunes in abc format. They can be printed with abc2mtex and played on many machines with playabc. Several people have contributed to this archive as it now stands, most notably Morag Logan who entered many of the tunes either from memory or various collections and John Walsh. copyright remains with the author where they are known or with the person to whom they were sourced. Please see John Walsh's copyright notice in file walsh_copyright. The separation of tunes into various categories is almost arbitrary in some cases, particularly the xia and xm files. I have tested these files with abc2mtex1.1 where they all printed. Some apparently do not print under 1.2. I will update this soon when I change over to 1.2. Hopefully I will have a version which prints under both systems ... maybe. I have also included a do_index script which produces an index in a more useful form to me than abc2mtex itself. The INDEX file was generated by this script. I find this archive useful so am happy to keep updating it. Send contributions of abc formatted tunes to pjr@splash.princeton.edu Particular thanks to John Walsh for acting as infinitely patient proof-reader. P.S. by Ceolas: The folder abc.tunes.ps contains postscript versions of many of these tunes, created by Chris Walshaw