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CoMando Tunes of the Week

In April 1999 CoMando John Bird proposed the idea of a "Tune of the Week". A tune would be nominated, and a discussion would take place about the tune, problems of playing it, hints, tips, stories behind it, great recordings of it, etc. The very first tune was "Blackberry Blossom".

Various people have taken turns to be the "tunemeister" (the geezer what chooses the tunes of the week): George Hunt was 2nd, I was 3rd, John Bird took the helm again, followed by Donn Marshall. The present Tunemeister is Jim Coon.

The concept of TOW was that it would engender disscussion. There was never meant to be an actual repository of tunes available, because there are usually several ways of playing one tune. However, there was a demand for access to the tunes that were being talked about, so first Dave Berry [1] started putting MIDI files of some of them on his web site; then I tabbed out a few of them, and then the Co-Mando web site came into existence, and several of the tunes were held there in various formats.