As I never saw Jimmy Shand on stage I always assumed he played piano box like everyone else. I never saw anything but piano accordions at local dances. I was a student in Dundee over two years in the mid 1980's and at that time my social life pretty much revolved around Scottish Country Dancing - The travel to dance area from Dundee at that time was pretty much North Fife and Angus. Thanks Chris -as far as melodeon goes I am still pretty much a novice. I don't know anything about this particular tutorbook, but I hope the above helps.
I suspect that's why it doesn't look like a conventional melodeon tuning to you, but given the title refers to British Chromatic accordions and the image shows a two-row box the tuning must be BC (or one of the other semitone tunings, I hope somebody more knowledgable will correct me if I'm wrong), whatever the confusing notation implies. So even though it looks like normal musical notation it isn't - the notes on the stave don't indicate musical notes in the familiar way, but positions on the keyboard. I'm not confident it's an exact match to German Griffschrift, but it certainly seems to follow the same general principle of (mis?)-appropriating musical staves for a tablature notation. The notation looks a lot like the "Griffschrift" (German for "fingering notation) used in old German Club tutors (some examples hosted by Anahata here: ), and I think maybe also for Styrian accordion tutors.
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