ABC Tune Identifier

Whistle
1

With TuneDB still out of action (such a pity), does anyone know if there are any other tune identifiers that will allow you to type in a phrase in abc, and return a list of possible tunes that it could be?

Thanks,

Pamela

2

http://www.thesession.org/ accepts ABC snippets in the advanced search.

Sonja

3

Thanks, I hadn’t realized that you could do that at The Session - but unfortunately, it doesn’t seem as sensitive as TuneDB was, or it doesn’t have as big a database to search, because I tried 3 different phrase fragments and didn’t get anything back.

I heard some great jigs at our local session and would like to know what they’re called!

Thanks,

Pamela

4

The best ABC tune identifiers are Internet groups with lots of people looking at them. Why not post the fragments here?

5

“The best ABC tune identifiers are Internet groups with lots of people looking at them. Why not post the fragments here?..”

Okay, here’s a fragment of the A part followed by a fragment of the B part - it’s a jig, Scottish or Irish… (Capitals for lower octave, small letters for upper octave / F’s are all sharp):

FF GFG Adfa gfef BC#deC#AFE
FFF GFG Adfa gfegeC#egC#d

fgafdd Cnat BGFG FEGBedC#AG#A

I’d love to know what it is!

Pamela

6

Don’t think I know that one. Might be something I’d recognize if I heard it. (I’m having a bit of trouble parsing your ABC into beats, which makes it hard for me to play coherently.)

Maybe one of the others?

7

here’s two more http://www.fojar.com/~steve/abctostaff/
http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html
i’m not familiar with all this, i hope you’ll find it