Ted writes some more: | > Ted writes: | > | Anyway, I'm sure the world needs plenty more tunebooks, so why don't you | > | give it ago? The need for a "Complete Scott Skinner" has already been | > | mentioned, so how about it - I don't think anyone will be chasing you re | > | copyright. | > | > How about a "Complete Scott Skinner" ABC project, to put | > all his tunes online? When we finish it, we could do a | > quick conversion to PDF and publish it ... | > | > Any volunteers to start transcribing? We could start by | > asking people to send in what they have now, after making | > sure that there's a B: header line in every tune that | > documents the source. | | Excellent idea! I'd be happy to contribute some ABCs, but not | "The President". I'm not so sure about ABCs that people have | already done - I think a lot of these may be from recordings or | sessions rather than the original tunebooks.
Yeah; any serious ABC transcription project is going to insist that you use the original book. All the projects that I know of have taken a "warts and all" approach, and tried to get as close to the original as ABC will permit. You may not play it like they did back then, but if you're going to put someone else's name on your collection, you should have their versions of the tunes. | > You're too late to get in on the O'Neill's Project; we have | > his 3 major tomes as ABC. (But if you know of any more odds | > and ends of his lying about, we'd welcome them.) | | Which books do you already have? I have a few of his odder ones | lying about. All of the "1850", "Dance Music of Ireland", and "Waifs and Strays" are in ABC now. I have copies of them all, and there are some mirrors around on the Web. I've read of some other books that he published, but I haven't seen them. If you want to contribute to the O'Neill's ABC archive, and have one of the others, I'd be happy to add them to the collection. But back to Skinner's music ... Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
