BAGPIPE> Bagpipe Tune Title Search Page now on-line
Jack Glidden
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After much effort, aggravation, and sweat, the Bagpipe Tune Title
Search page is finally on-line. At this time there are over 22,000
entries. I hope with the help of the internet piping community, to
continue adding to the database.
What the page will do is allow you to type in a bagpipe tune title and
the page will (hopefully) return the location that that tune can be
found. Included in the database are books, recordings, videos, and
internet file locations for Bagpipe Music Writer and Piob Mhor.
There are still errors in the data, so use it only as a starting point.
I hope to eventually weed out the bad or duplicate records.
I hope that this will be a valuable resource for the Bagpiping community
in whole.
There are also links that will aid you in adding to the database. I
hope to update the database on a monthly basis. File contributions will
govern how often I do this. In the near future I hope to write a
downloadable program that will prevent you having to type a text file
for the contrubitions.
If you have any questions, please use the supplied mail links on the
pages, so I know what is coming in
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The Bagpipe Tune Title Search Page
www.greenepa.net/~pages/Tune_search/
Bagpipes, Minerals, Fossils, Computers, Ham Radio, Life is good!
All This and I get to go to Heaven too!!
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After much effort, aggravation, and sweat, the <A HREF="www.greenepa.net/~pages/Tune_search/">Bagpipe
Tune Title Search page</A> is finally on-line. At this time there
are over 22,000 entries. I hope with the help of the internet piping
community, to continue adding to the database.
<P>What the page will do is allow you to type in a bagpipe tune title and
the page will (hopefully) return the location that that tune can be found.
Included in the database are books, recordings, videos, and internet
file locations for Bagpipe Music Writer and Piob Mhor.
<P>There are still errors in the data, so use it only as a starting point.
I hope to eventually weed out the bad or duplicate records.
<P>I hope that this will be a valuable resource for the Bagpiping community
in whole.
<P>There are also links that will aid you in adding to the database.
I hope to update the database on a monthly basis. File contributions
will govern how often I do this. In the near future I hope
to write a downloadable program that will prevent you having to type a
text file for the contrubitions.
<P>If you have any questions, please use the supplied mail links on the
pages, so I know what is coming in
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<BR>Bagpipes, Minerals, Fossils, Computers, Ham Radio, Life is good!
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All This and I get to go to Heaven too!!
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Ian Lawther
In article <350F4B93...@greenepa.net>, Jack Glidden
<Gli...@greenepa.net> writes
>After much effort, aggravation, and sweat, the Bagpipe Tune Title
>Search page is finally on-line. At this time there are over 22,000
>entries. I hope with the help of the internet piping community, to
>continue adding to the database.
I have just used this database and was pleased with the results, and
would recommend it to others.
However my own search had an interesting end result, which showed up an
error, but not on the part of the database!
A Northumbrian piping pupil of mine has been interested in learning "The
Skye Crofters", a Northumbrian pipes version of which was played by
Billy Pigg, and transcribed into a book called The Morpeth Rant, by Matt
Seattle. I became interested in seeing an original highland version and
so looked it up in the database.
The result I got was that it is on page 33 of Henderson's Collection of
Marches, Strathspeys, Reels and Jigs. This is a late Victorian
publication, but as luck would have it I currently have on loan several
old books belonging to the Pipe Major of my band, Roddy Livingstone, and
lo and behold Henderson's Collection of Marches, Strathspeys, Reels and
Jigs is amongst them.
I turn to page 33 and there is a tune entitled Skye Crofters, but the
title has been crossed out by the previous owner, and Portree Men
pencilled in. Now, these old books were given to Roddy by his
piobaireachd tutor, James Campbell, who in turn got them from his
father, Archibald Campbell of Kilberry, and it is he who has pencilled
in the correction. A quick reference to the Portree Men in another books
confirms the error in the Henderson book.
So full marks to the database, and to Archibald Campbell, and try harder
Peter Henderson!
And if anyone knows where The Skye Crofters can really be found let me
know!
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Ian Lawther http://www.northernlight.demon.co.uk/ian2.htm O///
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