I'm glad you wrote this.
I suggested something similar but my post never appeared (that happens quite
often and yes, I did send it to the list, not the person who posted it).
As I said there, I've been trying to do something similar with a book of
hurdy gurdy tunes but some other player beat me to it by playing all the
tunes on the piano and making it available as an mp3.
The cries of "ah, that's how that bit goes" continue to echo.
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike and Enid Walton" <mikeande...@worcesterfolk.org.uk>
To: <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 6:53 AM
Subject: [NSP] [NSP]Re: irst 30 tunes
If tunes (the "first 30" in the current context, but it holds for all
the NPS tunes) were posted in "abc" format on the NPS website, it would
enable people with the necessary programs to print them in whatever
format they wished, hear them as midis, transpose them etc. It might,
of course, reduce the sales of NPS books.
I thought about this when we were playing tunes on F chanters at
Halsway with other musicians. The music books proferred by pipers were
of course no good to the other musicians unless they were really expert
at transposing on the hoof.
Mike Walton
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