[abcusers] ABC transposition tool?

[Buddha Buck]

A friend of mine is a whistle/flageolet player and has whistles in all 
the popular keys -- but knows only the fingerings for the D-whistl to 
sight-read by.  Rumor has it that most whistle tunes are written in D or 
G keys, even if they are intended to be played in other keys by suitable 
choice of whistles.

However, the majority of songs she wishes to play aren't written like 
that (apparantly fiddle and other chromatic instrument players don't 
like to pick one diatonic key to write everything in),   Are there any 
tools out there that would allow us to take a collection of  tunes in 
ABC and transpose them to a key suitable for tinwhistle notation?  I'd 
sort of like something that would be able to tell that something is 
written in, say, G-minor with no notes lower than an F, could be 
transposed to E-minor and annoted with "Originally in G-minor, play on 
an F whistle".

Is this a solved-problem, or should I look into writing the scripts to 
do it myself?

Thanks,
 Buddha




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