Greet manuscripts

The Greet manuscripts are a set of 21 tunes found, when working in his loft, by Peter Hill who was then living at Littleworth, Greet, near Winchcombe. They were entitled “a few favourite airs adapted for the German (ie transverse) flute”. Many are dance tunes.

An Irish air adapted by Mr. Bunting, presumably from Bunting’s A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music, 1796, is Turlough o’Carolan’s Planxty Irwin.

 Notes by Charles Menteith and Paul Burgess