The Bill Black ABC Collection

(updated 24 July 2009)

"Shake well before using." - The Management


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Comments, corrections, etc. to bill@capeirish.com
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The tunes included in this collection were gathered from various sources (specified in the tune file) and are public domain unless
otherwise noted.

The best source of information for ABC is Chris Walshaw's very helpful website. For anyone unfamiliar with ABC, Chris' page is the best place to start. It is a great resource for more experienced ABC users as well.

The files on this site have been created using Phil Taylor's Mac-based program "BarFly" (which unhappily may not survive the
"upgrades" in the Mac OS past 10.3 and beyond). The files can be accessed using any ABC reading program (a variety of which can be downloaded from the Chris Walshaw site). 

There are also web-based converters such as that on the Folkinfo site or on the Concertina,net site.

If any of the entries in this collection are either composed or copyrighted and proper attribution has not been made in
the file, this fact should be brought to my attention.

IMPORTANT:
In cases where tunes are clearly shown as composed/copyrighted, authorization should be obtained from the appropriate party prior to any intended commercial use.

I have used John Chambers' fine TuneFinder index as the reference to reduce duplication - in other words, if the tune is listed in
TuneFinder, it already exists in some other collection. For that reason, it is to be hoped that most of the tunes contained herein
should be unique (in the sense of not being found elsewhere).

Please note that it is my intention to keep this a work in progress, with additions being made as time permits.

Any suggestions, comments, or corrections with regards to this endeavor will be received with thanks.


Have fun!
Bill Black
bill@capeirish.com


BB WEBABC MASTER INDEX

This Index lists all of the tune files presently on the website. Since this is a PDF file, you can't do much with it except check to see what tunes are on my site. You can also use the file number to access the file, but it's a cumbersome process that can be avoided by using TuneFinder (which can search for tunes by name or by filenumber, so that typing in "010087.abc" will get you to the same file as typing in the name "Ashmolean House").


LINKS TO ALPHABETIC INDEX PAGES:

A
 B
 C
 D
E
 F
 G
 H
I
 J
 K
 L
M
 N
 O
 P
Q
 R
 S
 T
U
 V
 W
 XYZ

Clicking on the above will take you to the index.html page that has links to all tune files beginning with
that letter. ("A" and "The" are disregarded.)


TUNE COLLECTIONS:

Click the above link for my ABC versions of tunes from various collections (CRE, Roche, Mulvihill, Liddy, etc.)







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