Album Summary: Henry Playford's Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes (1700) is the earliest printed collection of Scottish fiddle music, consisting of 39 dances, airs and variation sets in unaccompanied arrangements. Although it was soon reprinted in a 2nd edition (1701), both are now incredibly rare books. Nonetheless, it is with Playford's Scotch-Tunes that modern knowledge of Scottish fiddle music emerges from the obscurities of the seventeenth century aural and manuscript traditions. Today, it is a key text for students of both Scots fiddle and song genres. This ScotMus.com album faithfully reproduces the historic 1st edition of 1700.