[abcusers] to post or not to post?

2001-04-03 Thread Jack Campin
> I was only interested in different people's reason for not wanting > their music posted so that I could be more informed when the topic > came up, like it did in the workshop this past weekend. Here are some I can think of: 1. I'm dead and I'm not listening to that ouija board (this is the

[abcusers] small fragments?

2001-04-03 Thread Jack Campin
>The following didn't turn up any ABC at all. Anyone know about >any of them, maybe a better URL to find the tunes? > > http://famdeboer.www.cistron.nl/bagpipe.html That one contains a ZIP file of bagpipe music auto-converted from Bagpipe Music Writer format. The notes are mostly there, but non

Re: [abcusers] to post or not to post?

2001-04-03 Thread John Chambers
| This brings to the forefront a very murky problem. I have | a (not so) large collection of tunes in ABC format (<=100 :-). | While most are in the public domain, some are not. | For example, I have a version of Ashokan's Farewell written by | Jay Unger in 1983. | | Now (not so hypothetically),

[abcusers] Notes vs Frequencies (hertz)

2001-04-03 Thread Richard L Walker
Someone asked for a table of notes vs frequencies. There is such a table at URL: http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html "Richard L Walker"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pensacola, FL 32504-7726 USA To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Fomula for determining a half step in MgHz...

2001-04-03 Thread John Chambers
Bruce Olson wrote: | (after I wrote) | > So what's the big deal? The ratio of two notes a half step | > apart is the 12th root of 2, or 1.0594631 to 8 places. Is | > it any more complicated than that? | | That's what I said. | | There's more equal temperament scales than the 12 tone one. E.g.,

Re: [abcusers] Fomula for determining a half step in MgHz...

2001-04-03 Thread Bruce Olson
John Chambers wrote: > > | Hi, > | My Name is Brad Maloney and I have been lurking for quite a while on this > | list. At any rate for a diversion and excercise I am playing around > | with coding a QBasic-like program from scratch, but I am hung up on > | the fomula that "figures" half step incr

Re: [abcusers] Fomula for determining a half step in MgHz...

2001-04-03 Thread Mike Whitaker
On Tuesday 03 April 2001 17:19, you wrote: > Brad Maloney wrote: > > Hi, > > My Name is Brad Maloney and I have been lurking for quite a while on > > this list. At any rate for a diversion and excercise I am playing > > around with coding a QBasic-like program from scratch, but I am hung > > up on

Re: [abcusers] Fomula for determining a half step in MgHz...

2001-04-03 Thread John Chambers
| Hi, | My Name is Brad Maloney and I have been lurking for quite a while on this | list. At any rate for a diversion and excercise I am playing around | with coding a QBasic-like program from scratch, but I am hung up on | the fomula that "figures" half step increments in MgHz.. I have | so far c

Re: [abcusers] Fomula for determining a half step in MgHz...

2001-04-03 Thread John Chambers
| Hi, | My Name is Brad Maloney and I have been lurking for quite a while on this | list. At any rate for a diversion and excercise I am playing around | with coding a QBasic-like program from scratch, but I am hung up on | the fomula that "figures" half step increments in MgHz.. I have | so far c

Re: [abcusers] Fomula for determining a half step in MgHz...

2001-04-03 Thread Bruce Olson
Brad Maloney wrote: > > Hi, > My Name is Brad Maloney and I have been lurking for quite a while on this > list. At any rate for a diversion and excercise I am playing around > with coding a QBasic-like program from scratch, but I am hung up on > the fomula that "figures" half step increments in M

[abcusers] Fomula for determining a half step in MgHz...

2001-04-03 Thread Brad Maloney
Hi, My Name is Brad Maloney and I have been lurking for quite a while on this list. At any rate for a diversion and excercise I am playing around with coding a QBasic-like program from scratch, but I am hung up on the fomula that "figures" half step increments in MgHz.. I have so far created seve

Re: [abcusers] small fragments?

2001-04-03 Thread Simon Wascher
John Chambers wrote: > I fed these URLs to my searcher to see if there were any that (...)> The following didn't turn up any ABC at all. Anyone know about > any of them, maybe a better URL to find the tunes? (...) The following is mine, > http://members.teleweb.at/simon.wascher/ better is: ht

Re: [abcusers] small fragments?

2001-04-03 Thread John Chambers
Frank Nordberg writes: | Anybody interested in early music should have a look at Laura's site. | Her collection is marvelous :) | | But this again reminds me of something (forget my own head next) A week | or so ago I updated the Free Sheet Music Directory. There are now 122 | sites listed in the

Re: [abcusers] Tune archive updated

2001-04-03 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Frank" == Frank Nordberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frank> Any corrections and additions to the URL list? You should have Taco Walstra's lute tab site, http://msg.wins.uva.nl/~walstra/ABCArchive/. Christoph Dalitz, and maybe other people did some of the transcribing there. -- Laur

Re: [abcusers] Tune archive updated

2001-04-03 Thread Simon Wascher
Hello, Frank Nordberg wrote: (...) > This reminds me, btw. I forgot to list the contributors in my last message:(...) > Any corrections and additions to the URL list? Yes indeed. this URL is still working but the provider company was bought and so they changed all URS from "members.teleweb.at" t

Re: [abcusers] Tune archive updated

2001-04-03 Thread Frank Nordberg
Cindy wrote: > > In a message dated 3/29/2001 4:37:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > . Some tunes are not > sopyright protected, so I've left them out. Also contributors have > occasionaly asked me not to include certain tunes, > > > > I would li

Re: [abcusers] small fragments?

2001-04-03 Thread Frank Nordberg
Laura Conrad wrote: > > Cindy> Thanks so much for the reply. When you say "small > Cindy> fragments" are you talking about pieces of one tune, or > Cindy> just a few selections out of one file? > > Often I post just one voice of a multi-part piece. Or just enough of > the voice t

Re: [abcusers] to post or not to post

2001-04-03 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Mike Whitaker wrote: > > Now (not so hypothetically), in the interest in promulgating > > (my particular brand of) music, I typeset my tunes and take them > > to the local music store and sell them with the proviso that all > > profits go to help offset the cost of musical ins