Slow airs in ABC format

Whistle
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Hi All. Anyone know of a good website for Irish slow airs in the ABC format. I have only found (after much Googling) the odd air here and there but no substantial collections.

Many thanx

Noz

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Give this a go

http://tunedb.woodenflute.com/

I have a few more in my book but I’ll have to dig them out. Happy whistlen’ -

BillG

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On 2002-09-04 13:15, BillG wrote:
Give this a go

http://tunedb.woodenflute.com/

I have a few more in my book but I’ll have to dig them out. Happy whistlen’ -

BillG

Neat site! How do you access tunes by type? I can only figure out how to search by name.

I have found myself stumbling onto a nice tune, learning it well and then finding out everybody and their brother plays it because they like it too! So I like to browse by type, just to see what’s out there. I am very new at this.

Kim

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Neat site! How do you access tunes by type? I can only figure out how to search by name.

Fortunately there is a way. Go to the Search for Tunes by Name page. Enter just the single character * in Name field. Leave the First Word button checked. Set the Tune Type to Air. Leave the Keys field set to All Keys… Now you will get all of the airs on the site.

Now for the bad news… Nearly all of the Airs files have an error in the ABC format. Each line of the ABC file is separated by a blank line. A blank line is the way you terminate a tune :slight_smile: Unfortunately, you must copy and paste to something like NotePad or WordPad and remove the blank lines. Save the file and now you will find it then valid. As it is, the site owner’s additional features of playback and printing do not work either for these files.

I have contacted the site owner twice regarding this problem and, thus far, I have been ignored. Ah well, it’s still much better than nothing. Just a pain to to go through. Too bad.

Good airing!

[ This Message was edited by: CDon on 2002-09-04 14:28 ]

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Thank you so much! I see what you mean about the ABC problem. Is that what is keeping the notations from appearing?

Kim

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Yep… That is why his playback and notation generator does not work for these files. As soon as the Index is processed, the tune is ‘over’.

After you clean them up in a text editor, you can then put them into something like ABC2WIN if you have it or paste it into:

Tune_O_Tron

if you don’t have one of the ABC applications.

Good luck.

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Interesting. I can open the ABC from the Tunedb website using ABC2Win, but if I try to copy and paste it into Tune-o-tron program, it won’t work. It fixes it’s self in the ABC2Win.

I wonder if ABC2Win is the program they used and they tried to copy and paste it and it didn’t work.

I’m not computer savvy enough to even know what I’m talking about.

Kim

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Hummmm… Not sure what is going on. You do have to fix the file before pasting into Tune-O-Tron. Never actually tried copying the ABC from Tunedb directly to ABC2WIN. If that does indeed work, the the Tunedb folks would appear to not be using ABC2WIN since their play button is not functional on these particular files.

Anyway, not worth worrying over… You should now have a large supply of Airs to work with :slight_smile:

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Here’s another great site called “ABC Tune Finder” - check it out!

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html

BillG