While visiting the Ardbeg dristiller on Isle of Islay, i notished a tunebook with CD in the whiskyshop. Tunes for multiple instruments and pipe settings .. interesting! Fraser Shaw, didn’t know who he was. The tunes in the book looked interesting. I bought both .. we will see.
While reading more about him, i learned he was a driving force on the islands when it comes to folk music. Sadly he died by a illness .. far to soon. While on holiday we drove by some places he was know to play. Tunes for whistle with guitar chords and pipe settings. Some tunes are in a complex time measure. I lost the CD but it is on spotify .. favourites: £50 Cashback and Air Chall
While visiting the Kildonan Museum in South Uist, i found a tunebook which was compiled of tunes from a piper named: Calum Campbell.
This oldskool piper wrote some amazing tunes. The book was made after he, his daughter and her two children lost their lives in a heavy storm in 2005. 2005 Was a bad year .. we lost John D Burgess, Martyn Bennett and Gordon Duncan the same year.
On our way home we visited the Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum.
Most of the pipes here where Northumbrian bagpipes and some borderpipes ( even a shuttlepipe )
Our Northumbrian pipes
In the touristy shop i found these books, amoung others.
Last two are Duets/Trios also for different instruments .. nice!
In the past i’ve used a home build Logitech Squeezebox server (as it was called then), Picore player and tried volumio. Picore player has been sitting in my livingroom for ages, but was converted to a Node-Red Dashboard and recently Home Assistant Dashboard. (Has been a dasticz daskboard also)
Today i build another version, smaller and with a screen. Why? .. because of being ‘offline’ or ‘offgrid’ on our holidays. The car we are driving only has a Aux input.
Most of the installation is as mentioned on: https://docs.picoreplayer.org/projects/add-a-display/
I edited /opt/bootsync.sh to get /dev/sda1 mounted persistent use pcp br after editing.
Default user/pass : tc piCore
Controlling the thing is via touch or a app on my phone using wifi hotspot.
Shutting down piCore is done by cutting the power, due to everything being mounted readonly. EXEPT When you are using LMS server installation, which uses a database. But there is a tweak for a shutdown button.
I’m using GPIO 16 because i’ve got a screen connected. Active LOW, means you have to connect a pushbutton/switch between GND and GPIO pin. (nearest Vcc OR Gnd)
I made a sound mixer controller for my applications, a while ago.
Some arduino project laying around on my desk. (OBS controller, Mqtt-sound-and-display-with-mute-acknowledge-button and Octoprint monitor, below that my dusty mixer)
I’m probably make a V2 with new functionality:
Switching applications which are using sound from speakers to headset and vice versa.
I’ve create my own bww/bwm to parsons code convertor. Rest of the website is php, mysql … first one started in 2001 using php3, until php7.
Wow i found a screenshot from one if the first mobile versions!
PARSONS CODE: OMG, you don’t know how long I have been waiting for a search engine to find tunes in my head. I thought about creating some kind of dictionary based on theme notes, or searching through bww files for sequences. What a thrill to find your site. I just hum a tune, use the up, down, repeat letters and… like magic the title is found. You are a genius. I will never be stumped for a title again. Thanks so much, John
Other successes i’ve heard of are: 2 Youtube movies being identified, a nameless bww file and mp3’s
Mail from Dave:
Hiya
My name is Dave Mason. I put a few tunes together a few years ago called "Tummle Yer Wilkies" which, I see, gets mention on your website. However, I see that you're not sure where people can access the tunes.
Well, the book is free to download from https://sites.google.com/site/tummleyerwilkies/home and I hope to have volume 2, "Tummle Yer Wilkies Too!" uploaded in the near future.
Cheers
Dave Mason
Geneva, Switzerland.
NEW - Palm version by Andreas Joebges (updated)
Added stuff changed software
Added parts in booklist and search.
Additions to www.drumscoresearch.org
Many additions by: Chris MacKnight
Palm version by Andreas Joebges
Added index send by : Henning
sat 14 feb: Installed DB on macbumm's site
sun 15 feb: Made some changes, limit search and layout
Removed own collections from DB
Expanded statspage with jig/hornp/march/etc.
mon 16 feb: Imported College of Piping index i got from Ralf .. (thanks!)
Imported Irish Tunes for Warpipe
Added Log, Fixed Members Login for edit purposes
tue 17 feb: Layout, testing new functions
wed 18 feb: Imported Bagpipe Music - John MacFadyen
thu 19 feb: Uploaded some Book Covers,
programmed a export-to-xls function, so you can use the
DB data yourself (bottom of booklist pages)
Imported Gordon Highlanders Vol 1
sat 21 feb: Fixed m?c and l*ken search
Imported Gordon Highlanders Vol 2
Added AKA search
Old search request stays in search field
Added some covers
code cleanup
mon 23 feb: Fixed bookcover popup
Imported Mark Saul Vol I
Uploaded Mark Saul Cover II and changed faulty cover other Vol
Bookinfo added ISBN, Price, etc. Suggestion i got by Email
Uploaded Queens Own Highlanders The Pipers Day
Imported Seaforth Highlanders - Standard Settings
thu 26 feb: DB cleanup
Added Code
Imported Donald MacLeod vol 1 2 and 4
fri 27 feb: 1st editor assigned - Henny Barnhoorn
sat 28 feb: Imported Vol 5 and 6 Donald MacLeod
sun 29 feb: CD Information added
2nd editor - Coline Gerritsen
mon 01 feb: Added CDs .. Thanks Coline
Gordon Highlanders Book 1 checked/added/etc. by Henny .. thanks
CD displaying code changed
Imported Robert Mathieson Book 4 (now over 4000 tunes in DB!)
fri 05 mar: Added CDs
Altered ShowCD Code
sun 07 mar: Imported some books (NOW 50!)
Henny Completed reediting Gordon Highlanders Vol2
Add MP3 clip code in cdinfo
mon 08 mar: Imported book
Fixed image caching for faulty browsers
Search finds composers also
Fixed Menu structure
Added Templates
tue 09 mar: Added link under advanced search - find ALL harmonies. :)
wed 10 mar: Added book with cover + MP3 sample
thu 11 mar: Imported Piob. CD
Added edit icon help
fri 12 mar: Find tunes on CD in beta test .. :)
(click search -> advanced .. enter a keyword, mark the media
checkbox and click search .. CDs found at bottom of page .. :)
sat 13 mar: Imported another filled-in cd-template :)
Added some covers
wed 17 mar: Added 15 Piobaireachd Society Volumes
sat 20 mar: Added 3 CD's
tue 23 mar: Added several books (5166 tunes now!) Thanks John
thu 25 mar: Changed code, checked book, imported book
tue 30 mar: Uploaded covers, edited book (Murray Blairs) and added books
till
tue 06 apr: Uploaded Covers, Added books, Changed code
till
sat 17 apr: Imported some books, added parts to export-excell
(will be in search later)
Henny checked/edited some books
tue 20 apr: Imported books, testing query caching for speed improvement.
(yes getting kindda large .. this thingy)
thu 22 apr: 100! BOOKs!
--missing log--
Added book, covers e.t.c.
sun 11 jul: Added Battlefield Book (thanx Markus)
mon 11 jan: Added 2 books (thanx again Markus)
15 Feb of this year my Concertina was deliverd on my doorstep.
It is a Wren 2 Anglo C/G Concertina by McNeela. A affordable good instrument.
Features
30 button Anglo Concertina in the key of C/G
Fully chromatic
Measures 6.3″ across the flats (16cm)
8 fold bellows
Steel reeds
Loud, crisp tone
Durable black buttons
Wheatstone/Lachenal layout
Excellent response
Easy to play
Lightweight concertina – easy to handle for all ages
Traditional size – unlike other bulky beginner concertinas
Softer, more comfortable, adjustable hand-straps – suitable for both children and adults
Finished with improved stylish gloss exposed-grain wood
Comes with a complimentary Concertina Padded Hard Case
The word concertina refers to a family of hand-held bellows-driven free reed instruments constructed according to various systems, which differ in terms of keyboard layout, and whether individual buttons (keys) produce the same (unisonoric) or different (bisonoric) notes with changes in the direction of air pressure. It is weird playing two notes with the same button, but i gives you a broader tonal range. Some notes are double, one on the pull action and one on the push action. When playing for a while it is possible to switch between those two to be able to play faster. Because you can use the same pull or push as you already where playing, or the button is close by the one you already play.
A little diagram i drew myself using inkscape to learn the buttons i needed. (Blanks also have notes)
So i had a little problem with the pull motion of the right hand A’ B’. I didn’t want to send my Concertina back (Still has garantee, i know) But sending it back to Ireland will take a while and has postal costs. (I’ve fixed my Accordeon also, so why not try to fix it myself?) (… aaand i was curious of the insides )
I had to look at the inner workings for a minute, and finding the right reed. The middle picture above shows a white plastic strip, one of them was stuck. Moving it a little and carefully bending it, got it free and moveable again.
On with the lessons from Caitlin Nic Gabhann again! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3tPzc6kKM0
2023 Repair:
One of the reeds fell off! It was not glued properly. A 5 minute fix!
