We've now had several fantastic live sessions featuring Timothy Cummings, and I asked him to compile some additional info for your benefit after our last discussion. As promised, here is his list of helpful resources. Hymns: a handful of both free and $1 individual hymn PDFs (including carols and shape-note hymns) can be found here, and then there's the printed Piper's Hymnal here. You can also view the WOODWORTH/Just As I Am adaptation (below). It's important to note that the keys shown as boxed text on the upper left of each tune are calibrated for the written key for the individual PDFs (which is the same as the sounding key for A-small pipes and Border pipes), but the key symbols are transposed for conventional, modern Highland pipes in The Piper's Hymnal. Thus, NEW BRITAIN/Amazing Grace is listed as being in D on the downloadable PDF, but in E-flat in the printed The Piper's Hymnal collection. On a related note, Piping Today magazine published a series of articles ...
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