Thanks to Aaron and Frank for their input; I used both. Aaron's tune, while only a few keystrokes away from being perfectly acceptable ABC, wasn't quite the way I remembered the tune as being structured, but having it that way made it far quicker to get it the way I wanted from those MIDIs.
I hadn't realized quite how much of a folk art MIDI had become. The variants of it I found were about as divergent as anything you'd find for a Scottish tune. I was rather taken with the wondrously sentimental Filipino arrangement with the floral background; that woman has a career mapped out for her designing the ambience for Oriental restaurants. Weird coincidences: I last heard the tune three years ago played by a Northumbrian piper from the US who has his own elaborate arrangement, and I met him again yesterday at a Buddhist funeral having not seen him in between and having no idea he'd be there. He was explaining the Four Noble Truths to somebody when I last saw him and I couldn't very well interrupt the theological instruction to ask him to whistle it. =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
