John Chambers wrote:
http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/ seems to have vanished.
For that matter, http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/ doesn't
seem to exist, though http://www.gre.ac.uk/ does.
Strange. I did notice some time-outs lately, but a 404 is something
entirely different of course. I tried
I have been trying to transcribe a rather obscure, and as far
as I know never-before-transcribed, piece of tablature from a
Scottish manuscript of about 1680. The MS gives no clue as to
what instrument it's for or what the tuning is, except that it
had four strings - the tab is written on four of
Fascinating!
I always knew that somebody would come up for a use for the middle
directive which involved shifting the notes by an amount different
from an octave.
The experimentation which produced that was not too difficult using
BarFly, except for that insane numerical transpose notation;
Jack Campin wrote:
I have been trying to transcribe a rather obscure, and as far
as I know never-before-transcribed, piece of tablature from a
Scottish manuscript of about 1680.
Always trust Jack to come up with good an unusual music - and
interesting challenges :)
The MS gives no clue as
Phil Taylor wrote:
Fascinating!
I always knew that somebody would come up for a use for the middle
directive which involved shifting the notes by an amount different
from an
Seems I got so preoccupied with actual music that I missed a vital point
in his posting:
I really hope you're not
Phil Taylor wrote:
The second part of the tune sounds good, but I'm not convinced by the
first part. It's mainly the big interval from g to E which sounds odd.
I don't know. It sounded odd to me too at first, but now I really like
that detail.
Then again, we're used to hearing tunes composed
Here's a passage Steeleye Span used as an interlude to All around my
hat. Does anybody know if it's based on some old tune, or is it
something they wrote themselves?
Frank Nordberg
http://www.musicaviva.com
X:1
T:?
R:Jig?
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:C
FC2F {G}FEF|CGEE EDE|FFEF AFA|Fced cdB|
CGcc {d}cBc|GdBB
