On 6 Feb 2010, Gibbons, John wrote: > It is good that Geoff made such a serious effort to transcribe Billy's > timing and ornament - never an easy job.
There was a group of folk - Geoff, John Haynes and Lionel Miller were three of them, and most of the work was done in the early 70s when slowing down tapes was possible but fairly crude. I'm checking the transcriptions using audacity and the slower downer which maintain pitch, and whilst there are places on a few tunes where I am intending to disagree with the Warren transcriptions, they were pretty good. The bulk of the book will not be literal transcriptions though, and it is converting the irregular rhythms of Billy's airs into music intelligible to most dot-users that causes the most bother. It is a compromise between musical accuracy and maintaining the sense of flow. But all of the tunes like it will have to have a health warning on - cannot be learnt effectively by dots alone. (Not that any music can, but even more so for these ones). Julia To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
