> I won't say there's no reason to read abc notation at all, but I can > say that I know a substantial community of traditional musicians in > New Hampshire who use abc, and all use it to display musical notation, > to listen to the tune in question and to exchange tunes; none use it > to read directly. I suspect our usage pattern is pretty typical of > the traditional music community in general.
You know you've got it right when somebody turns up at a session with a tune on paper as a prompt - and it's your ABC on a slip the size of a bus ticket. I've had that happen to me. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files, and my CD-ROM "Embro, Embro". ------> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "abc" at this site, please <------ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
