Judy asks: | Is there an archive of actual abcs that people have | shared on this list? I have found some good ones here. | Makes me wonder what I've missed. Thanks!
I've done a bit of collecting: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/abcusers/ Extracting tunes from a mailing lists turns out to be somewhat of a non-trivial problem, as people are amazingly lax in what they post. This is true even on this list. Information that should be in header (C, S, Z, ...) lines is regularly put in the English text, so it takes quite a lot of editing to put the info where it belongs. And you have to find replies that add info, correct notes, etc, usually in a form that software can't recognize as abc. As a result, this is a rather labor-intensive job. I hope there are others around that have done the job, too. Maybe they'll have some of the tunes that I overlooked. Then there are the people who extract tunes from mailing lists and put them on a site that blocks access by my tune finder. I know of several at yahoo that I just can't get to at all ... To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
