> Sometine ago I downloaded a pdf file from a www site > which I have forgotten. The file is pdf-piping.pdf > and is 1,675 KB. It includes about 60 pages of > Scottish tunes arranged according to scales or modes. > It seems to be a piping tutorial. I would like to > pass on the source of the file to some friends but I > cannot find it on the www. > > The first "tune" in the file is "The Diatonic Pitch > Set and the White Note Pitch Set" This is followed by > a page of scales. The first real tunes appear on page > 2 and they are "Duncan Gray" and "Corn Riggs". > The last tune in the file is the OSLO WALTZ > > Does this ring a bell with anyone? I would really > like to know where this file is located on the web.
This is somebody's adaptation of the modes tutorial on my website - which is a single file of text with embedded ABC tunes, and hence only about 140K for 200 tunes plus commentary. I would like to know who the idiot was who decided to make that version publicly available without referencing my site, crediting me or including any of my text (which is the point of the whole damn thing). It isn't just aimed at piping: I included as many genres of Scottish music as I could, though I do make a specific point of analyzing pipe tunes. A couple of the harpists on this list have found it a useful pedagogical tool. It should help you get more music out of any diatonic instrument. If you ever find where the PDF came from, let me know so I can get the omissions fixed. My guess is that what happened was that somebody ran the whole thing through a tool that transformed the tunes while omitting the text, and by some typical internet Chinese-whispers degradation process, that ended up on the web as if it was the intended product. Since my server (Demon) is as fast as any, the net result is that readers of this copy will typically end up with ten times the download time for less information. I think Homer Simpson has a word for that. If you have a Mac, try it with BarFly; the audio interaction will tell you more and quicker than working through printed scores. ABCMus on Windows will be nearly as good (but it doesn't do highlighted playback). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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". Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
