sorry for the cross-post…
Well, someone did it. The O’Neill’s book online, in all formats (ABC and sheet, etc).
Wow. Free.
Anyway, a great great resource.
Here is the link:
http://www.sosyourmom.com/Oneils1.html
More than enough for two life times…heaven just got a little closer. And I don’t need a magnifying glass to read the book version.
Thanks Dave!
MarkB
Say it again - “Great Resource”.
Thanks for the link
Mike
I remember contributing some ABC typing to Daniel Beimborn’s version, mentioned on this site. To save you an extra click, here 'tis.
http://www2.redhawk.org/irish/oneill/
M
Excellent resource! I’m working on assembling a nice indexed PDF of scores of each of the O’Neill books, with companion MIDIs, using the abc collection cited above. Once I get that done I’ll probably put it on my website as well as offer it to the hosts of the cited site (say that three times fast).
I’ve got to tweak my jaabc2ps program to output the PDFMARKS in the postscript for creating the indexes, no way I’d tackle that by hand! Once the software is updated creating the PDFs is a matter of a few minutes work.
I ran a test case last night and 50 tunes took 18 pages on standard US letter paper so I suppose somebody with a fresh cartridge in their laser printer and a lot of patience could print the whole book from the PDF. Hmmm, I just did the math and if that ratio holds for the entire book the resulting document will be exactly 666 pages - does that make O’Neill the Antichrist? Maybe I should abandon this project… 
Anyway, I may get it done this holiday weekend – all depends on how long I get “stuck” doing the “good dad” routine 
Thanks David - great resource.
Whoooeeee! Would you believe 900+ pages and 24 megabytes! And that’s just the PDF document, I haven’t done the MIDIs yet.
It only took me a few hours to write the software changes, in fact I think it took longer to correct the “peculiarities” sprinkled through almost a meg of ABC source text than it did to update the software. (Not complaining, mind you, the folks who did those transcriptions deserve a big round of applause, that was a lot of work!)
I wrote the software so it indexes the document six ways from Sunday (with 1850 tunes and 900+ pages good indexes are essential). There are six complete indexes; Book Order, Alphabetical Order, Alphabetical Grouped by Key, Alphabetical Grouped by Key Then Meter, Alphabetical Grouped by Meter, and Alphabetical Grouped by Meter Then Key.
As soon as I figure out where to put this thing I’ll make it available for download. I don’t know if I’ll put it on my guitar site or find a free site – if a couple of thousand of you download a 25 megabyte file from my guitar site it will probably exceed my bandwidth quota pretty quick (especially since I often run close to the quota just with normal traffic from guitar players).
Hey Dale, how much bandwidth do you have available at C&F?