ABC Notation?

I'm stumbling onto a whole new world, here.

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  1. drawjerkyWed Aug 11, 08:19:00 am BST

    THIS ABSOLUTELY ROCKS!!! but in a folky kind of way.. never will we be short of fiddly dee tunes again..

    ... the fife is on it's way...

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  2. drawjerkyWed Aug 11, 08:29:00 am BST

    got barfly and flabc working off the cuff and flabc takes it into logic! (audio program) so that's really cool.. haven't been so excited for ages...

    i'm still really sad aren't I?

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  3. Garry NixonWed Aug 11, 10:01:00 am BST

    Well, I'm sadder because I have no fucking idea what you're talking about in that last post. Will research it.

    The fife looks like a lot of fun.

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  4. drawjerkyWed Aug 11, 12:47:00 pm BST

    they're free programs that turn the abc notation to sound. the latter puts the output into an audio program and there I can apply just about any instrument in the bank to it.

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  5. Garry NixonWed Aug 11, 02:05:00 pm BST

    But Logic won't run on a PC, is that right?

    And can barfly change abc into standard musical notation?

    Anyway, can't you read music? Fuck's sake, if I can learn it, I'm sure you can.

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  6. Garry NixonWed Aug 11, 02:06:00 pm BST

    Oh yeah, I forgot to ask, what kind of fife are you getting? I've been looking at them this morning, and if I master the whistle, I might give one a go.

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  7. drawjerkyWed Aug 11, 03:31:00 pm BST

    no logic on pc.. don't know about the change to musical notation in barfly. there is a list of software telling what it can do, that's what I went for. your boy should have something compatible if he uses a pc.

    I perhaps should have gone for the whistle first because the embouchure is going to need so much practice..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQg0vScnQ8E&feature=related

    and I got this one..

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Yamaha-YRF21-Fife/dp/B0002F5F9O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1281537028&sr=8-1

    and it came today..

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  8. Garry NixonWed Aug 11, 07:37:00 pm BST

    Indeed, but embouchure is a brilliant word, isn't it? I plan to get the fingering right, and then move on to the embouchure of a fife, diggity.

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  9. Garry NixonWed Aug 11, 07:38:00 pm BST

    And did you also buy Fun with the Fife?

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  10. drawjerkyWed Aug 11, 08:55:00 pm BST

    diggity indeed...
    no, i got http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liz-Goodwin-The-Fife-Book/dp/B000ZNEOU4/ref=pd_sim_b_3
    instead- as I read that one was not suitable for the yamaha fife for a reason I can't remember...

    managed to get a tune out of it then watched the embouchure vids then completely lost it for about an hour, eventually regained the tune

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  11. drawjerkyWed Aug 11, 08:57:00 pm BST

    by the way, how do you put the link in with your text without the http//wwetc bollosks. I can't see how to do it?

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  12. Garry NixonWed Aug 11, 09:16:00 pm BST

    Does your lip feel funny?

    The link is wee bit of html. I can't show you here because it reads it as html. This should explain it. You dumb fuck.

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  13. drawjerkyWed Aug 11, 09:30:00 pm BST

    I see.. My lip is fine and if I can get to grips with it I may get something like this.

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  14. Garry NixonWed Aug 11, 09:34:00 pm BST

    I'd rather get something like this. Which wasn't made in Pakistan, and wouldn't break my heart if some bastard nicked it.

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  15. Garry NixonWed Aug 11, 09:37:00 pm BST

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  16. Garry NixonWed Aug 11, 09:38:00 pm BST

    Don't you think a flute's a wee bit serious? I mean, a whistle or a fife is a right laugh, but they have flutes in the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

    [edited for typo - I'm anal like that]

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  17. drawjerkyWed Aug 11, 09:45:00 pm BST

    I saw that.. something about an symphony orchestra. It's plastic and I should be thankful I'm not aiming for this

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  18. Garry NixonWed Aug 11, 09:52:00 pm BST


    Aside from the voice, flutes are the earliest known musical instruments.

    Shiver me timbres.

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  19. drawjerkyWed Aug 11, 10:02:00 pm BST

    well fuckerty fuck...

    INTERCHANGABLE HEADS!!!

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  20. Garry NixonWed Aug 11, 10:03:00 pm BST

    I could do with one of them.

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  21. Garry NixonWed Aug 11, 10:15:00 pm BST

    Fucken hell. Wondrous sound. You have a point. Twat.

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  22. drawjerkyWed Aug 11, 10:21:00 pm BST

    I too just looked at them on you tube... I'm sold but I want the more expensive one, here. Is there any hope for me? No.

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  23. drawjerkyWed Aug 11, 10:23:00 pm BST

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvcNqqHkn7Q&feature=related

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  24. drawjerkyWed Aug 11, 10:25:00 pm BST

    Oh my god Garry, I've just realised, you ARE my soul mate in this madness.

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  25. Garry NixonWed Aug 11, 10:25:00 pm BST

    You're better off with a whistle, man, wtf is wrong with you? How about the improbably named Colleen Shanks? Lovely.

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  26. drawjerkyWed Aug 11, 10:33:00 pm BST

    No, I like the lower, deeper tuned instruments, and I need a flute so I can fulfil my fantasy.

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  27. Garry NixonWed Aug 11, 10:41:00 pm BST

    That can't be real, I must be on drugs. Enough.

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