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I would suggest you start your search at www.sheetmusicplus.com, who have a very good selection as well as good search facilities and include content indexes for their books. Ebay can also be a good source for secondhand fakebooks at very good prices, beware though, I have seen very poor quality photocopies offered for sale so check what you are getting.
How the index is organised & finding a song
The songs/tunes are in alphabetical order with 15 separate song titles on each page. Next to each title you will find a code e.g. "300FT" this is the abbreviation for the book titled "300 fiddle tunes", each book has it's own abbreviation. The song index pages are ordered on the first 3 characters in the song/tune title; where there are more than 15 entries for any 3 characters, a numeric suffix is added starting at 10. Some of the song titles have extra information such as the page number or author name added after the title. For indexing purposes, where a title began with "The" this has been removed.
Songbooks and Tune-books indexed | |
300FT 300 fiddle tunes AAFV1 All American folk Volume 1 AAFV2 All American folk Volume 2 AAPSB2E All-American Patriotic Songbook - 2nd Edition AFAS American Folksongs & Spirituals AFFEG American Folksongs For Easy Guitar AFSB Abelard folk song book AFSFC American folk songs for Christmas AFSFG American folk songs for guitar AMM Anthology Of Mandolin Music AMV America's Memory Valley BORF Brumleys Book Of Radio favorites BPS The Banjo Player's Songbook BSWW1 Ballads & Songs Of World War 1 CMA Complete Method For Autoharp EAFA Echoes of Africa in folk songs of the Americas EBS Early Blues Songbook ECDT ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE TUNES EFFS Everybody's favorite folk songs FBFS Fireside book of folk songs *FFB The Fiddlers Fake Book FSEISW Folk songs of England Ireland Scotland and Wales *FSEV1 Folk Song Encyclopedia Volume 1 *FSEV2 Folk Song Encyclopedia Volume 2 FSONE Folk songs of old New England FSOW Folk songs of the world FSUSA Folk song U.S.A. FSWB Folk Singers Word Book GASB Great Australian Song book GEFM Golden Encyclopedia Of Folk Music GIS Great Inspirational Songs |
GODW The Guitar of Doc Watson H100BFSR Hanson's 100 best folk songs for recorder JBSB joan baez songbook LCSC Library Of Children's Song Classics LFS Library Of Folk Songs O'Neill's 1001 OHEF One hundred English folksongs *OTBSB OLD-TIME STRING BAND SONGBOOK OTFAA Old-Time Fiddling Across America OTGS Old Time Gospel Songbook *PHILV1 The Phillips Collection of traditional Fiddle Tunes Volume 1 *PHILV2 The Phillips Collection of traditional Fiddle Tunes Volume 2 PPMDA Peter Paul & Mary Deluxe Anthology RMC see SKY SG Simple Gifts -Shaker Melodies SHARP Sacred Harp SKY (or RMC) Ryan's Mammoth Collection Tunes (Patrick Sky) SOA Songs Of Australia(Silverman) SOS Songs of Scotland SOTP1 Songs of The Pioneers vol 1 SOTP2 Songs of The Pioneers vol 2 SOTP3 Songs of The Pioneers vol 3 TCWS A Treasury Of Civil War Songs TFB The Fiddle Book TPHOYC Tom Paxton-The Honor Of Your Company TPWM Traditional & popular wedding music TS Train Songs (Silverman) TTSV1 Traditional Tune Sourcebook Volume 1 TTSV2 Traditional Tune Sourcebook Volume 2 UFGSC Ultimate Folk Guitar Song Collection VFVY Very Favorites of the Very Young WGSB Woody Guthrie Songbook |