Hey everyone, I’m a tuba player (sort of) who did play whistle for a while. I’m thinking of getting back into it. Right now though I have a need for help. Does anyone have the sheetmusic for Ashokan Farewell? It’s a tune by Jay Ungar an American, he wrote the tune in the style of a Scottish Lament. I could, maybe with a lot of effort learn it by listening, but I want to speed up the process. I sort of challenged some tuba players to a youtube face-off playing this tune.
Ugh. That is missing the repetition of the A part (A2 is different from A1), and there are wrong notes. 
Better. 
That’s still a little different from what I think Mr Ungar plays. But maybe I’m quibbling - that last one ain’t bad.
I used to hate this tune, but it’s wormed its way in over the years, and I now find myself voluntarily starting it. I must admit, I love the thing now. Odd that that can happen …
Welcome, Seabear! The price of admission here is a recording of you grunting out Ashokan Farewell on your Tuba. MP3 or YouTube.
Oh fussy, fussy … 
OK. how about this?
Seabear, you can copy and paste the ABC below into the [u]Concertina.net Converter[/u], and download the result in standard notation as a PDF file. Whatever you have to do with this to make it work on the tuba, I don’t want to know. 
X:1
T:Ashokan Farwell
C:Jay Ungar
Z:MTGuru for C&F, 2011-05-20
M:3/4
K:D
A<c|d3c B<A|F4 {GF}E<F|G3F E<D|B,2 JD3B,|
A,2 D2 F2|A2 d2 f2|f3g f2|e4 A<c|
Jd3c B<A|F4 {GF}E<F|G3F E<D|B,2 JD3B,|
A,2 D2 F2|A2 d2 f2|A2 c2 e2|d4||
F<G|[DA]7/2 F/ D2|[DJd]4 A2|B7/2 c/ d2|AF3 {GF}E2|
F3{GF}E D2|B,4 {CB,}G,2|{A,/B,/}A,4 JA2|A7/2 F/ E2|1
D2 F2 A2|J=c6|B3c d2|AF3 {G/F/}D2|
A,2 D2 F2|Ad3 F2|E3{FE}D C2|D4:|2
D2 F2 A2|J=c4 d2|B3c d2|AF3 {G/F/}D|
A,D FA df|ad’3 f2|e3{fed}A c2|{c}Hd6|]
Wow! I only know basic ABC notation. I think I may need a lesson in more advanced stuff. There’s bits of that that I don’t understand - and neither does my version of ABCNavigator. Specifically the portamentos and the chords at the start of the second part. Looks fantastic when put into concertina.net though!
Thanks Mr Guru Sir! 
Can’t wait for the tuba version … will it be up on YouTuba? I serpently hope so …
anyone else notice that the best way to get a decent answer around here is to say something stupid?
Have you been getting a glut of decent answers then, Denny?
how would I know?
Dang! The ‘stupid’ gambit …
The ABC tune converter is totally awesome! It’s seemingly run by magic leprechauns, you just paste in a bunch of indecipherable gibberish and out pops a tune written in legible music notation.
I might be able to eke out a recording by Tuesday on tuba. It’s sad but I have difficulty finding a place to practice the tuba. I live in an apartment so sometimes I can use the clubhouse here or sometimes I go to a park. I should look around for a muisic store with some space or maybe find a space in a more unlikely sort of building.
As far as whistle goes, I will ask around on the whistle forum for a nice soft playing whistle.
Take any whistle and put a piece of card stock, folded like a v, into the windway, hooked over the blade. By varying the width of card, you can control the volume.
This thread will show you how to add a javascript plugin to teach your browser to recognise ABC text in webpages and display a dot translation below it. This works in Opera, but I don’t know whether all browsers make user java this easy to configure.
I recently chose to transcribe something somebody had written, and found that ABCNavigator was not up to the job!
The most recent download dates back to 2007. With great reluctance I downloaded a copy of ABCExplorer, for which the most recent download is 2010. The smiley-face quaver irritates my delicate sensibilities, or maybe I should say provokes an uncivilised barbarian fury, but that is more than countered by the fact that it can handle crochet triplets, for instance, and triplets beginning with rests, neither of which ABCNavigator can in its current form. ABCExplorer can also add qualifying headers to each ABC file, and produce PDFs. I am converted. I still don’t like the smiley-face quaver, though, but as it’s free, I’ll live with it.
I use Melody Assistant for working with abc files. It seems to be able to do most, if not all the ABC things I need, but it is also a general purpose notation and composition program, so it’s easy to transpose and do other tasks.
just in case anyone is interested, mickey dunne did a lovely recording of this tune on his ‘limerick lassies’ tape