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.

Merry Swiss Boy Is derived from Der Schweizer Bue in Ignac Moscheles’ The Tyrolese Melodies, Vol 1 (of 3) London: Willis & Co., 1827, as sung by the Rainer Family from the Zillertal.  It occurs in Fesca’s concertina tutor. Thomas Hardy had a jig called the Swiss Girl.

Notes by Charles Menteith and Paul Burgess