Hi Everyone
Terry Moylan (archievist at MPU) has put me onto a great site that has an amazingly large resource for ITM music. Next time your serfing the web try http://www.thesession.org . Although it asks you to sign up (to post tunes) you do not need to be a member to access the music. I’ve so fare managed to find all my favourites on it. Now down to practicing all the tunes I found. That should keep me quiet for a while 
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L42B 
It’s an excellent resource but I wouldn’t always agree with the versions posted there. So don’t assume the dots are always “right” [whatever “right” is !!!].
Sometimes popular tunes have a couple of different versions [try Munster Buttermilk or The Hare in the Corn/Rathawaun, ] and the version posted might not be the one you’ve heard a piper playing, or might be in a different key.
Also, many tunes are posted by fiddlers, so you may need to adapt things a bit to sit properly on the pipes.
But along with Henrik Norbeck’s web-based abc tune list [and concertina.net 's Tune-o-Tron abc converter], the Session.org site is a valuable resource for trad players.
Boyd
There is also this site: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html which I have used to find more pipe friendly tunes and settings.
Have a look at www.cpmusic.com
There’s a page on this site with approx. 100 tunes. You get the sheet music and midi files (in case you can’t read music). It’s not particularly for pipes, but if you have a little imagination, you can adapt the tunes by adding your own ornamentation.
Wish you guys would learn to use Search. This has all been hashed out before, and turned into a link list by Patrick D’Arcy here: http://www.uilleannobsession.com/links_tunes.html
djm
As long as folks have suggestions or questions they will post them. Asking them to run a search is an exercise in futility, in addition to being a little on the rude side.
Sorry, Joseph, but I have to disagree. How many times should one repeat one’s self in answering the same questions when the answers have been posted many many times already?
djm
Speaking as a new member of the discussion group, I’ve certainly asked questions or started topics which have already been discussed before. The reason I didn’t search is that I didn’t know how to search. The reason I didn’t know how to search is that I’M A NEW MEMBER!!
DJM, if you’re bothered by different people asking the same questions, what are you doing in a discussion group??
http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html
This is one of the more interesting MIDI sites which includes a wide variety of tunes. Click on one of the Celtic links. It’ll have the traditional full-band sound but allow you to choose the instruments of your choice(about 10-12 options), ie, block out the instrumentation you don’t like.
A MIDI sequencer (vanBosko’s Karaoke Player) is a free download which allows you to slow the tune down w/o changing pitch, or tune the file to your instrument w/o changing rythm.
“Moving in Decency” is one of the good tunes I leaned from this site.
PJ, I learned to use the Search option because other users on this forum were kind enough to point it out to me, too. 
djm
Why don’t you show him how it’s done. Explain which words you entered, which author, which forum, etc., to find all previous discussion.
I’ve posted that same web site as a good place to learn tunes about 3 or 4 times over the last couple years. I used seach to find the site because I couldn’t remember it and don’t have it marked on my new computer. The only way I found it was by knowing which particular search word and author to enter. You won’t find any of them by entering “session” or “tunes.”
Tony’s the expert.
No offense David, but this can also apply to people telling others to ‘run a search’, in my book equally as annoying as someone asking a question that may have been answered a year or two or more ago.
If you want to know old opinions, run a search. If you want current thinking, fair to ask today “what’s the latest thinking” and certainly from a different group in any event.
Hi
Sorry guys I didn’t mean to start a debate on such websites (for ITM music). I thought it’d be helpful to experienced pipers and beginners alike. Yes I know that The Session does not include pipe ornamentation (on some occasions).
There have been a few occasions where the tunes and keys listed are different to some of the tunes that I have. However (in my opinion) if you use the sheet music as a guide (not the bible) and listen to recordings of the tune in question. Your ear will often pick where the tune is wrong and you can amend if from there. With ornamentation (as boyd said) if you have a little bit of imagination and are willing to experiment; some interesting sounds can be created on the pipes.
Lorenzo and Djm, it can be incredibly annoying to answer questions a few times in one month (sorry 
). I have been guilty of asking a few of the same questions a couple of times. At the time I was a newby and didn’t realise that such links to music websites have been posted in the past so I didn’t know what to look for. No flame war was the inteded outcome of this post. Please keep posts constructive
Cheers L42B
Only once. Then let someone else do the answering.
On that note, aren’t we all, in a sense teachers, on this forum? We’ve all got something we know that others may not.
I’m a school teacher. I teach over 300 different students in a week. I teach the same stuff year in, year out.
If a student comes up to me and asks how to say something (I’m a language teacher) I have two possible responses -
I could tell them what they want to know
I could say with a sigh - "I’ve already taught over 300 students how to say that. They go to this school. Don’t ask me. Go and ask the other students. I can’t be bothered repeating the same information over and over again.
If you were that student, which response would you want form me?
Chastising someone and insisting they do a search because “this question has been done before” is like the second response.
A more appropriate repsonse for this forum would be to point the person to the relevent links of the previous discussions as some here already do. This give the person generally what they want to know (though not always) and also makes them aware of the search facility.
Cheers,
DavidG
Well put. I think it is far too easy to forget that we all began knowing feck-all about pipes, piping, sites to get tunes etc.. etc… and we become a mite big headed when someone new comes along in the same situation we were in not so long ago.
Rather than being told to run a search (which, if I were told that in person way back when, would solicit an assualt-like response from me.), I would prefer to be directed to where I could find that info, or better yet, be given it without a search…serving two purposes 1). Answering my question… and 2). Communicating with another piper, which I believe to be the key to learning this instrument, is it not?
I don’t recall any teacher who gave a straight answer. I was always told which book(s) had the answer and to go and look it up. Now, if someone doesn’t where the library is, that’s a different situation. In that case I would provide them a link: http://chiffboard.mati.ca/search.php?sid=6fbcec56da7af53379007708b1896aa5
djm
That sucks. Those folks are intellectual and social zygotes. Why would you want to perpetuate their poor example?
You never had me for a teacher
Perhaps some very basic points should be gather in a FAQ chapter somewhere in this site?
useful websites (uilleanObsession, TheSession, Tunefinder, etc.)
ABC notation
tutorials
etc.