Or you could use Adobe Acrobat Professional to split the file. That’s what I use to extract pages.
Kevin,
I am aware of using Acrobat Professional, and even have a copy (which is how I was able to compile all 198 individual scans after rotating and resizing them in Photoshop). I went a different path and used Acrobat to write another PDF copy in duplex format. I now have several different versions on my computer, but fortunately lots of hard drive space, now I just have to learn how to read music…
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For those interested the link to download is here:
http://www.box.net/shared/0gcl3u8ad9
I’ll leave it posted for a short time for those interested.
Dan
great work, thanks! 
PS. it’s also indexed here: http://www.colonialdancing.org/Easmes/TOC/St016434.htm
Thanks, Dan, a great effort. I’m sure there will be plenty of appreciation.
Kevin
Nice to see the original document. It is easy to read and Not being a music major I must admit to not being familiar with all of the all of the markings but that just adds to the interesting aspects of the book.
I cannot wait until I have some time to fully go through it.
Thanks again Latticino.
Wow, that is a lot of work. Are the tunes in there completely differnt from today’s tunes? It is amazing how much stuff can chage, especially of stuff that is passed down from ear to ear instead of in writing.
According to The Session
Also known as Come Haste To The Wedding, Fast Trip To Reno, Gigue Des Petits Moutons, Haste To The West, Haste Ye Tae The Wedding, Hasten To The Wedding, Rural Felicity, Thurot.
heck
i’ve got a copy at home
pay for the postage and you’re welcome to a photocopy of it.
dm
Sure you can find it under the pile of all your antique flutes? 
Seriously, where were you a month or so ago when I.D.10-t first was asking for a copy? Could have saved me a good day+ of running around, scanning and assembling it. In any event, those who are interested can download it for free from Boxnet at the site listed in an earlier post. As there has been some interest, I’ve left it up for the C&F community for a while. Darn thing is over 200 pages, so I have to say you are being generous to make gratus photocopies. Still, I’m sure the quality is better than the microfich that I scanned. Perhpas you should donate the original to a museum.
I think it may still be useful to me. The manuscript from the library of congress had what I think are 9 handwritten pages of index that appear to be added by the previous owner. Instead of being in alphabetical order it seems that the owner just started with page one and looked for all the tunes that started with A and formed a list, then b then… Some of the titles are missing and it looks like there are more than 280 tunes.
Other modifications are also evident, for example the tune The Pretty Millener has had the word Pretty crossed out so I wonder what other modifications might be more hidden. The Library of congress’s version mentions that the first few pages were missing, and it would nice to have those available to double check. For my purposes, the two would be complimentary.
I have no idea how accurately one generally goes about such a project. Are mistakes and differences in spelling, capitalization and other style elements generally reproduced faithfully, or should I become an editor correct as I go?
Here is an example of what I am looking at.
Here is page 10
on the 6th Hole, concluding with it on but the preparation and
Shake are to be done in the same breath, all other notes that are shook
except this D, have a single Rellish commonly called a double Rellish, but
I think improperly, which is Performed by sounding the Note above the Note
shook and concluding on the Note shook.Example
[Insert image 11]X:1
T:
M:C
L:1/4
K:G
!trill!e (e/2!trill!d/8e/8)|
[End Image 11]If E is to be shook where F is Sharp blow the F and in the Same breath put
sown the Finger on the 5th Hole and Shake with the finger on the 4th Hole,
touch the 6th Hole and conclude with the Note shook as in the Example.
Therefore you see that the Note immediately above and below the Note to be
shook must be touched to compleat the shake, otherwise it will be but an
imperfect on. To make a Shake on E where F is Natural first blow F and in
the Same breath rise up the Finger on the 6th Hole and shake with the
finger on the 5th Hole concluding with it down. To shake G shake with the
finger on the 3rd Hole. To shake A shake with the finger on the 2nd Hole
concluding with the finger down for each. To shake C Natural blow the
middle D and shake with the finger on the 4th Hole
Then there is the first tune of the book.
This seems to be missing the section I have entered in red. The number of bars and the similarities just seem to point towards having the inserted A4BA|.
X:1
T:Lovely Nancy
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:G
(BA)|G2G2(GB)|A2A2(Ac)|Bdgd cB |A4BA|G2G2(GB)|A2A2Ac|BgdBcB|G4:|
|:Bc |d2d2(ge)|e2d2(Bc)|d2d2(gB)|B2A2(BA)|G2G2(GB)|A2A2Ac|BgdBcB|G4:|
Note: This is just a first draft for me and I have not fully proof read my own work
I just wanted to say “thanks” again… We were going thru a few of the tunes tonight at our session. There are a lot of bad tunes, but a lot of gems as well! We are planning on using about 10 of them this summer at our local Ft Henry Days reenactment (here in Wheeling, WV). We are the “official” musicians for the event and it’ll be nice to have some stuff that we KNOW is period-correct! Check out this link. We’re in a couple of the pictures… We’re “Gallowglass”, btw…
Pat