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A later Scottish source, from the early 19th century, is Robert Riddell's Collection of Scotch, Galwegian and Border Tunes-besides some tunes for fiddle and some for smallpipes, others, such as Torphichen's Rant, clearly have the range and the idiom of Border pipe tunes.

The smallpipe manuscript of Robert Bewick of Gateshead, besides many smallpipe tunes and transcribed fiddle tunes, contains several 9-note tunes, now identified as Border pipe music.

Some of the smallpipe tunes in Peacock's book, from the early 19th century, are in the Lydian mode, with a tonic of c, but with one sharp in the key signature ; these-' Bobby Shaftoe ' is one-make more musical sense in the major mode with an f natural, viewed as adaptations from originals for Border pipes.

The Peacock, John Smith and some of the Bewick tunes are reproduced in the FARNE archive.