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Cranford Publications specializes in Celtic fiddle music from Cape Breton, Ireland and Scotland. Proprietor Paul Cranford is a fiddler and composer firmly rooted within the traditions of music he sells. This site provides resources for a continuing tradition. We create and distribute books of music notation and related recordings; materials intended to help you learn fiddle tunes as interpreted by Cape Breton fiddlers. As you explore you will find links to thousands of tunes. Check out the pages featuring books and CDs and you will find links to tunes as free, on-screen musical notation. sound clips, midi files, ABCs or to articles, photos and descriptions - most relating to books and CDs which we make available in our on-line store.
Our newsletter has been delayed. Silver Apple News 11 is still in the planning stages. With luck it will be mailed to current customers sometime during the next 6 months. Like past issues it will include articles and musical transcriptions which relate to featured books and recordings available from Cranford Publications. If you'd like to receive a FREE COPY email us your postal address (not necessary if you are a current customer). PDFs of back issues are also available. Our on-line store allows secure credit card purchases for all the books and recordings we feature. We use an intuitive shopping cart system which allows you to change your mind - even after you have activated a BUY-ME link. We also take phone and mail orders. Our ABC Tunes feature usually includes transcriptions of tunes from a featured recordings or book. Dozens of abc archives are accessible from past features.
Fiddler-publisher-composer Paul Cranford started publishing in 1979 with a reproduction of The Skye Collection. For the past 34 years he has also kept a 'day-job' as a lighthouse keeper. An ideal place to write, practice and maintain this website, his current posting is Machias Seal Island a bird sanctuary located on the Canadian-US border in the Bay of Fundy. During his months off. Paul lives on the Cabot Trail in rural Cape Breton.
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