Interactive PDF Tunebooks and Websites
Created Using Michael Eskin's ABC Transcription Tools
How to Use the Interactive PDF Tunebooks
Comhaltas San Diego Tune Learning Session Tunebook
100+ tunes taught at the weekly Comhaltas San Diego Tune Learning Session
"The King Street Sessions Tunebook"
Over 1000 Tunes With Both Notation and Tablature for Various Instruments
CARP Celtic Jam Tunebook
Over 560 Tunes With Both Notation and Tablature for Various Instruments
CCE Dublin 2001 Tunebook
116 Popular Tunes With Both Notation and Tablature for Various Instruments
O'Carolan Tunes Transcribed by Brennan / Black / Gilb
Over 200 O'Carolan Tunes
O'Flaherty's Irish Retreat Tunes Played Slowly 2024
2024 Retreat Tunes With Both Notation and Tablature for Various Instruments
O'Flaherty's Irish Retreat Tunes Played Slowly 2025
2025 Retreat Tunes With Standard Notation
Songs of the Dupont Music Circle
239 Songs with Standard Notation
Tune Settings Transcribed and Composed by Mike McHale
Mike Hale's tune settings from approximately 20 years of teaching workshops,
classes and lessons collected by Colleen O’Sullivan and Neal Warshaw
A Dozen Lovely Waltzes for Box and Concertina
Anglo Concertina / Button Accordion "Party Piece" Hornpipes
A Collection of 28 Renaissance Lute Pieces
How to Use the Interactive Tunebook Websites
Traditional Irish Session Tunes
18th Century English, Irish, and Scottish Tune Collections
Hymns from the Open Hymnal 2014 Project
ABC Transcription Tools Ultimate ABC Demos
Common Questions About the Tunebook Websites
Launching the Websites from the iOS Facebook App Doesn't Work
How to Use the Interactive PDF Tunebooks
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Click the << arrows on the left side of the tune pages to jump to the Table of Contents.
Click the >> arrows on the right side of the tune pages to jump to the Index.
Click on any tune name in the Table of Contents or Index to jump to that tune in the tunebook.
Playing the Tunes
Click the title of any tune to immediately play the tune using my ABC Transcription Tools.
The player control bar has mouse hover tooltips on all the controls explaining what they do.
To change the play speed, use the speed control highlighted here in the playback controls:
Value is a percentage, set a value of 60 or 70 to slow a tune down for learning.
Click the Start Tune Trainer button to open up a "step-up" tune player with the tune where you can practice playing along with the tune looped with increasing tempos.
Click Export Audio or Image to save the tune either as a .WAV or .MP3 file, or export an image of the tune in PNG, JPG, or SVG formats.
Click the Settings button to set the playback instruments.
Opening Tunes in the Tune Trainer Instead of the Player
If you want to have it so that the tunes always open in the Tune Trainer, you can enable this option in the tool's Settings dialog:
Open exported PDF and Website play links in the Tune Trainer
If checked, when opening play links using share URLs, for example from PDF files or websites with play links, the tune will launch into the Tune Trainer instead of the standard Player.
This will allow you, for example, always have an initial play speed of 50% or 70% by setting up the Tune Trainer however you want.
If the start and end speeds are the same in the Tune Trainer, the tune will just continuously loop at the selected speed forever.
Editing Your Own Versions of the Tunes
If you click "Close" in the the player, you will be in the ABC Transcription Tools full screen tune view.
From the full screen view, you can open the player again by clicking the Play button in the lower right corner, or create a PDF of the tune by clicking the PDF button at the lower left corner.
Click the zoom arrows in the top right corner to close the full screen tune view and open the tune editor.
Once in the ABC Transcription Tools tune editor, you can view, edit, save, or create a PDF of the tune.
For complete information on editing the tunes, please check out the:
ABC Transcription Tools User Guide
Don't Forget to Save the PDF to Your System
Be sure to save the PDF file to your system after downloading if your browser doesn't automatically save it for you.
Comhaltas San Diego Tune Learning Session Tunebook
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100+ tunes taught at the weekly tune learning session in Balboa Park
Updated periodically with additional tunes
Latest version: 19 September 2025
Standard Notation
Interactive Website Version
Select between many different instrument tablatures on this version
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
"The King Street Sessions Tunebook"
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Over 1000 Tunes With Both Notation and Tablature for Various Instruments
Created with the permission of the original author, Michael D. Long
Click the title of any tune to play
Click the >> next to any tune to jump to the Index
Click any tune name in the Index to jump to the tune
Michael Long's Original PDF Tunebook
Standard Notation Full Tune Version (Now searchable)
Notation Incipits Version (Now searchable)
Text Incipits Version
Click to Download
(Smallest PDF file available with full interactivity)
Mandolin Tab
Tenor Banjo Tab
Ukulele Tab (for Flatpicking)
Fiddle Fingering Tab
Irish Bouzouki (GDAD) Tab
Standard Guitar Tab
DADGAD Guitar Tab
DAD-Tuned Mountain Dulcimer
Tablature for a DAD tuned instrument with a 6 1/2 fret(836 tunes from the original collection).
High D String Linear Style
Cross-String Style
Tin Whistle / Irish Flute (D) Tab
Walkthough of the B/C and C#/D Box Interactive Tablature PDF Editions
B/C Box Tab
How to Read the B/C Box Tablature
C#/D Box Tab
How to Read the C#/D Box Tablature
Jeffries-style Anglo Concertina Cross-Row Tab
Favors playing D5 and E5 on the left-side G-row.
Favors playing C5 on the left-side G-row draw.
Favors playing B4 on the right-side C-row draw.
Favors 2nd button on right-side top-row for C#5 and D#5.
How to Read the Anglo Concertina Tablature
Wheatstone-style Anglo Concertina Cross-Row Tab
Favors playing D5 and E5 on the left-side G-row.
Favors playing C5 on the left-side G-row draw.
Favors playing B4 on the right-side C-row draw.
How to Read the Anglo Concertina Tablature
Great Highland Bagpipe Chanter and Drones
Tuning at A=454Hz for Practice Chanters
This version has the tunes all transposed to the key of A, folded
to the range of the chanter, and plays with both the chanter and drones
CARP Celtic Jam Tunebook
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Click any tune name in Table of Contents and Index to go to the tune's page.
On the tune's page, click the title to open it in my ABC Transcription Tool's Player.
From the Player, click "Start Tune Trainer" to practice the tune looped with
increasing speed each time or several times through.
The instrument-specific tab versions play with the instrument's sound.
Click the << and >> arrows to return to the Table of Contents or Index.
Click any of the links below to download the Interactive PDF tunebook:
Standard Notation (Now searchable)
Standard Notation Incipits (Now searchable)
Mandolin Tab
Tin Whistle (D) Tab
Soprano Recorder Tab
Hammered Dulcimer
Standard notation, melody played on hammered dulcimer
CCE Dublin 2001 Tunebook
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116 Popular Tunes With Both Notation and Tablature for Various Instruments
Click any tune name in Table of Contents and Index to go to the tune's page.
On the tune's page, click the title to open it in my ABC Transcription Tool's Player.
From the Player, click "Start Tune Trainer" to practice the tune looped with
increasing speed each time or several times through.
Click the << and >> arrows to return to the Table of Contents or Index.
Standard Notation
Standard Notation First Line Incipits
Scottish Bagpipes
These versions have all the tunes in the tunebook transposed to the key of A
folded to the range of the chanter, and plays with both the chanter and drones
Click to Download the Great Highland Bagpipe A=466Hz (Bb)
(Chanter + drones) Version
Click to Download the Great Highland Bagpipe A=454Hz
(Practice chanter + drones) Version
Click to Download the Great Highland Bagpipe A=440Hz
(Chanter + drones) Version
Mandolin Tab
Ukulele Tab (for Flatpicking)
Fiddle Fingerings
Irish Bouzouki (GDAD) Tab
Cittern (Open-A DAEAC#) Tab
Guitar (Standard Tuning) Tab
Guitar (Open-A DAEAC#E) Tab
Tin Whistle (D) Tab
Baroque Recorder (Soprano or Tenor) Tab
B/C and C#/D Box Tab
Click to Download the B/C Version
Click to Download the C#/D Version
How to Read the B/C and C#/D Box Tablature
Anglo Concertina Tab
Click to Download the Jeffries-style Version
Click to Download the Wheatstone-style Version
How to Read the Anglo Concertina Tablature
O'Flaherty's Irish Retreat Tunes Played Slowly 2024
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Click any tune name in Table of Contents and Index to go to the tune's page.
On the tune's page, click the title to open it in my ABC Transcription Tool's Player.
From the Player, click "Start Tune Trainer" to practice the tune looped with
increasing speed each time or several times through.
The instrument-specific tab versions play with the instrument's sound.
Click the << and >> arrows to return to the Table of Contents or Index.
Click any of the links below to download the Interactive PDF tunebook:
Standard Notation
Standard Notation Incipits
Mandolin Tab
First Position Fiddle Fingerings
Irish Bouzouki (GDAD) Tab
Tenor Banjo Tab
Guitar (Standard Tuning) Tab
Tin Whistle (D) Tab
B/C Box Tab
C#/D Box Tab
How to Read the B/C and C#/D Box Tablature
Scottish Bagpipe Versions
These versions have had all tunes transposed to the key of A
(no change to the modes) and also have drones injected.
Great Highland Bagpipe (A:480Hz - Pipe band high tuning)
Great Highland Bagpipe (A:466Hz - Standard Bb)
Great Highland Bagpipe (A:454Hz - Practice chanter)
Great Highland Bagpipe (A:440Hz)
Scottish Smallpipes in A
Scottish Smallpipes in D
O'Flaherty's Irish Retreat Tunes Played Slowly 2025
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Click any tune name in Table of Contents and Index to go to the tune's page.
On the tune's page, click the title to open it in my ABC Transcription Tool's Player.
From the Player, click "Start Tune Trainer" to practice the tune looped with
increasing speed each time or several times through.
Click the << and >> arrows to return to the Table of Contents or Index.
Click the link below to download the Interactive PDF tunebook:
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Songs of the Dupont Music Circle
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239 Traditional Songs with Standard Notation
Click any song name in Table of Contents to jump to the song's page.
On the song's page, click the title to open it in my ABC Transcription Tool's Player.
From the Player, click "Start Tune Trainer" to practice the song looped with
increasing speed each time or several times through.
Click the << arrows to return to the Table of Contents.
Click the link below to download the Interactive PDF tunebook:
Plays with a Piano Sound
Plays with an Accordion Sound
Plays with a Concertina Sound
Tune Settings Transcribed and Composed by Mike McHale
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Introduction by Neal Warshaw
"These tunebooks contain all of the settings for the tunes which Mike McHale transcribed over approximately 20 years of teaching workshops, classes and lessons which were collected by Colleen O’Sullivan and Neal Warshaw.
There are approximately 600 tunes, of which, about 200 were included in the 2 tunebooks published with the help of Hilari Farrington Koehler and Benedict Koehler.
Tunes transcribed the first few years were hand written and some of the tunes are a bit faint but after a while Mike got the hang of a computer app.
Mike was a big fan of Paddy O’Brien and his cousin, Sean Ryan. Their compositions are included and acknowledged.
In the last few years of his life Mike composed a number of tunes himself and these are in a separate tunebook."
Gary Martin generated the PDF tunebooks from the transcriptions.
Here is an article on Mike McHale published by the CCE Mid-Atlantic Region:
Reels
Jigs
Hornpipes
Miscellaneous Tunes
Original Compositions
Click the title of any tune to immediately play the tune using my
ABC Transcription Tools.
O'Carolan Tunes Transcribed by Brennan / Black / Gilb
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Over 200 O'Carolan tunes, click the title of any tune to play it.
There are several versions of the interactive PDF tunebook:
Standard Notation
Tunes Play with a Harp Sound
Standard Notation
Tunes Play with a Hammered Dulcimer Sound
Standard Notation Incipits
Tunes Play with a Harp Sound
A Dozen Lovely Waltzes for Box and Concertina
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Click the title of any tune to immediately play the tune using my
ABC Transcription Tools with my high-quality Accordion and Concertina samples.
How to Read the B/C and C#/D Box Tablature
How to Read the Anglo Concertina Tablature
B/C Box
C#/D Box
Anglo Concertina (Jeffries)
Anglo Concertina (Wheatstone)
Anglo Concertina / Button Accordion "Party Piece" Hornpipes
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Six of my favorite arpeggio-heavy hornpipes to play on
Anglo Concertina and Button Accordion.
Anglo Concertina
Button Accordion
A Collection of 28 Renaissance Lute Pieces
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Arranged for Guitar
Arranged for Harp
Arranged for Chorused Guitar (nylon)
Shape Note Hymns from The Open Hymnal Project
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Over 200 hymns with shape notes from the 2014 Open Hymnal Project collection.
Shape Note Notation
Tunebook Website Version
Notes on using the PDF tunebook
You can click on any hymn name in the Table of Contents to go to the page for the hymn.
Once on the page for the hymn, click the title to play the hymn in my ABC Transcriptions Tools.
This is a large file, please be sure to save it to your system after downloading from your browser.
Note: Because of the words in the hymns, the tunebook playback links (which contain the entire hymn notes and words encoded in them) are very long.
Most will not work properly if the PDF is opened with Adobe Acrobat, which has a small URL length limit for opening hyperlinks in the PDF.
Virtually all other PDF readers, including those built into the popular browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari have no problem with the tunebook playback links.
Your best bet is to just drop the PDF tunebook file on a browser window to view it, or open it in a mobile app like GoodReader for iOS.
263 Tunes by John Clare (written 1820-1834)
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Info from http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Clare/Clare%20Info.html
John Clare was a working class rural labourer, and a poet of considerable fame, both then and now.
He was very interested in the vernacular culture of his village and left a very important record of this in his various papers.
He was a fashionable poet for a time and is still known and studied, but for our purposes he was also an enthusiastic fiddle player, who collected tunes from a variety of sources. These tunes include both dance and song tunes.
Many of the song tunes have corresponding sets of words elsewhere in Clare's Manuscripts.
Many other tunes have words elsewhere, but not in Clare. Deacon in "John Clare and the Folk Tradition" (George Deacon. ISBN 0-86300-008-8), provides some texts, but it is not certain that Clare knew these as anything other than fiddle tunes. It is equally possible that he did of course, given his interest in song.
Seventeen of the dance tunes have dance instructions attached, and it is evident that these tunes at least were taken from printed sources.
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How to Use the Interactive Tunebook Websites
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This video is a walktrough of the 2025 O'Flaherty's Retreat tunebook website, but the same operations apply to all of the websites below.
Traditional Irish Session Tunes
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For these demo websites, the tunes are
played with a sound that matches the selected tablature.
Tablature and playback for each website includes:
Standard Notation, Note Names
Mandolin, Tenor Banjo, GDAD-tuned Bouzouki,
Standard-tuned Guitar, DADGAD-tuned Guitar, Tin Whistle,
Irish Flute, Soprano Recorder, and Hammered Dulcimer.
The King Street Sessions Tunebook
(over 1000 Irish session tunes)
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
CARP Celtic Jam Tunebook
(over 500 Irish session tunes)
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Paul Hardy's Session Tunebook 2025
(714 Irish, English, and other tunes)
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
CCE Dublin 2001 Tunebook
(over 200 Irish session tunes)
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Comhaltas San Diego Tune Learning Tunebook
(over 100 Irish session tunes)
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Comhaltas San Diego Whistle Club Tunebook
(over 100 Irish session tunes with Tin Whistle fingering tab)
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
O'Carolan Tunes Transcribed by Brennan / Black / Gilb
(over 200 Irish harp tunes)
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
O'Carolan Tunes for Mountain Dulcimer
(15 Irish harp tunes arranged for DAD Mountain Dulcimer)
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Traditional Irish B/C Box Bass and Chord Tune Transcriptions
(42 tunes with Bass and Chord indications)
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Songs of the Dupont Music Circle
(239 Traditional Songs)
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
O'Flaherty's Retreat 2025 Tunes Played Slowly
Individual Tunes and Sets
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
The Fiddler's Tunebooks
Volumes 1 & 2, Peter Kennedy, EFDSS, 1951-3
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
O'Flaherty's Retreat 2025 Tunes Played Slowly
Individual Tunes and Sets with Fiddle Fingerings
18th Century English, Irish, and Scottish Tune Collections
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Scottish, English, Irish, and Foreign Airs by James Aird (1778)
(over 1000 tunes transcribed by Jack Campin)
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Playford's Dancing Master
(Transcribed by Chris Partington and others)
The tunes have been alphabetically sorted by title in each volume.
Volume 1, 1651-1728
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Volume 2, c1710-1728
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Volume 3, c1713-1726, 2nd edition c1726
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Original ABC Files
Click to Visit Chris Partington's Playford Website
MS Anon Yorkshire c1795
(260 tunes transcribed by Simon Wilson)
The tunes have been alphabetically sorted by title.
Scottish Bagpipe Tunes
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Example Scottish Bagpipe Tunes
Tuning is A:454 for bagpipe practice chanters
Chanter Only
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Chanter and Drones
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Bryan Mitchell's Scottish Bagpipe Tunes for Learners
Bagpipe tunes curated by Bryan Mitchell
Tuning is A:454 for bagpipe practice chanters
Chanter Only
Classical Arrangements
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Most of these include a Master Score, individual Parts
(using the "Split Parts" feature in the tool), and
"Music Minus One" practice versions for each instrument
Detailed webinar on how I created these can be found at the bottom of this section
Konzert für Violine, Streicher und Basso Nr.2 BWV1042 (J.S. Bach)
Arranged for AATTB Recorder Ensemble
Master Score, individual Parts,
and "Music Minus One" practice versions for each instrument
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Terpsichore - La Bourrée No. 32 (Michael Praetorius)
Arranged for SATB Recorder
Master Score, individual Parts,
and "Music Minus One" practice versions for each instrument
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Arranged for Concertina Quartet
Master Score, individual Parts,
and "Music Minus One" practice versions for each instrument
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 (J.S. Bach)
Arranged for Two Soprano Recorders
Master Score, individual Parts,
and "Music Minus One" practice versions for each instrument
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Sonatina for Mandolin and Piano (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Original for Mandolin and Piano
Master Score, solo Mandolin,
and "Music Minus One" practice version for Mandolin
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Arranged for Octave Mandolin and Piano
Master Score, solo Octave Mandolin,
and "Music Minus One" practice version for Octave Mandolin
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Arranged for Concertina and Piano
Master Score, solo Concertina,
and "Music Minus One" practice version for Concertina
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Concerto for Oboe in D Minor (A. Marcello)
Arranged for Alto Recorder and Chamber Orchestra
Master Score, solo Alto Recorder,
and "Music Minus One" practice version for Alto Recorder
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Fugue in G Minor, BWV578 (J.S Bach)
Arranged for SATB Recorder Ensemble
Master Score, individual Parts,
and "Music Minus One" practice versions for each instrument
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Pipe Organ
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Telemann Flute Sonata in F Major
Transposed to C with Soprano Recorder Fingerings
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Alto Recorder Fingerings
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
28 Renaissance Lute Pieces
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Webinar on how I created these classical arrangements
Hymns from the Open Hymnal 2014 Project
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Hymns from the Open Hymnal 2014 Project
70+ Four-part SATB Hymns with Words
Pipe Organ
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Concertina
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Solfège Sung Note Names
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
Shape Note Notation
Contemporary and Other Demos
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O Canada
Arranged by R. D. Tennent for SATB Recorder
Master Score, individual Parts,
and "Music Minus One" practice versions for each instrument
Click to Open the Tunebook Website
The Entertainer (Scott Joplin)
Arranged by R. D. Tennent for SATB Recorder
Master Score, individual Parts,
and "Music Minus One" practice versions for each instrument
ABC Transcription Tools Ultimate ABC Demos
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30+ multi-voice arrangements in ABC originally transcoded from MusicXML
that push the envelope of what's possible with ABC
Click to Visit the Ultimate ABC Demos Website
Screen captures of three of the arrangements full-screen in the Quick Editor:
Sonata K1 1st Movement (D. Scarlatti)
Fanfare for the Common Man (Aaron Copland)
Thunderbirds are Go! (excerpt)
Common Questions About the Tunebook Websites
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How can I print or create a PDF of a tune on one of the websites?
How do I see more of the tune at once on the website?
How do I change the instruments used for playing the tunes?
How can I customize the website exported by the tool?
The websites aren't working when I launch them from the Facebook iOS app
Something just looks wrong or isn't playing correctly
Printing or Creating PDFs for Tunes on the Websites
This can be nice for printing an individual part for "Music Minus One" practice when you want to read off a physical version of a score rather than trying to keep up with the autoscrolling in the Player or Tune Trainer.
When viewing a tune on any of the websites, you can generate a PDF file of the score using the PDF exporter built into my tool by:
Close the Player
Click the "PDF" icon at the lower left
If you want more control over the PDF layout or just want to print a score:
Click the "Full Screen" button at the upper right of the website
Close the Player
Now you can use the browser's built-in Print functionality to print a copy of the score or (depending on the browser) generate a PDF as well.
Zooming Out to See More of a Tunebook Website
When working a very wide but very short screen,
you'll want to zoom your browser out to see more of the tunes.
Additionally, you can try clicking the → ← or ← → buttons at far left and right of the buttons in the Player to decrease or increase the width of the player in 10% of the browser window screen width increments.
This video shows the process:
Changing the Instruments Used for Playing the Tunes
Generally, the instruments used for playback are "baked-into"
the exported website ABC share links.
You can override the instruments used for playback by
following the procedure demonstrated in this video:
Customized Tunebook Website Demo Video
Launching the Websites from the iOS Facebook App Doesn't Work
Some time in November 2024, Facebook changed something about how their embedded webview works and now my tool doesn't work in that context.
For iOS 17 and 18, you will be presented with a button to click to open the page in Safari instead.
For earlier versions of iOS, you'll be prompted to click on the ... menu in the Facebook webview and then "Open in External Browser" to use the tool or the exported tunebook websites.
Something just looks wrong or isn't playing correctly
Most likely, the the tool just needs to be updated to the latest version and the tunebook website reloaded.
Close the tunebook website and open the ABC Transcription Tools in a new browser tab:
Click here to open the ABC Transcription Tools
Follow the procedure described here to force an update to the latest version of the tool:
Reload the tunebook website and then do a hard refresh of the page:
Changing the Instruments Used for Playing Tunes from the Tunebooks
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It's easy to have your preferred instrument sounds used for the tune playback instead of the instrument sound that may be specified for a tune in the Interactive PDF tunebooks.
Here are the steps to follow:
1) Play a tune from the PDF tunebook by clicking on its title.
2) Click Settings at the bottom right of the Player. The Player Instrument Settings dialog will appear.
3) Set the Default abcjs soundfont selection to your preferred soundfont from the dropdown menu. The different soundfonts provide different sounding versions of each instrument.
4) Set the Melody and Bass/Chords MIDI instruments to your preferred instrument sounds from the dropdown menus.
5) Set the Bass and Chord volumes. Values are from 0-127. Generally values from 32-64 work best.
6) Important: Click the checkbox labeled "Override all MIDI programs and volumes in the ABC when playing tunes"
This will force the Player to use your preferred instrument instead of whatever instrument might be selected by the tunebook.
7) Close the Player Instrument Settings dialog.
Now, going forward, all tunes you click in an Interactive PDF tunebook will use your preferred instrument sounds and volumes.
To turn off the instrument and volume overrides, repeat the process, and uncheck "Override all MIDI programs and volumes in the ABC when playing tunes" in the Player Instrument Settings dialog
How to Read the B/C and C#/D Box Tablature
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B/C - Shows standard notation and tablature for a standard 21-button B/C tuned box.
The button numbers and pitches used for the tablature match those on this chart:
Notes on the C-row are indicated by numbers: 1, 2, 3, ...
Notes on the B-row are indicated by numbers in circles: ①, ②, ③, ...
Push is indicated with a "↓" arrow.
Draw is indicated with an "↑" arrow.
Click here to download a PDF of the B/C tablature chart
C#/D - Shows standard notation and tablature for a standard 21-button C#/D tuned box.
The button numbers and pitches used for the tablature match those on this chart:
Notes on the D-row are indicated by numbers: 1, 2, 3,...
Notes on the C#-row are indicated by numbers in circles: ①, ②, ③, ...
Push is indicated with a "↓" arrow.
Draw is indicated with an "↑" arrow.
Click here to download a PDF of the C#/D tablature chart
Assumptions about the B/C and C#/D Box tablature solutions:
The tablature solution assumes that the "magic" notes (E and B on a B/C, F# and C# on a C#/D) that are available on both rows, will be played on the C-row on a B/C box and on the D-row on a C#/D box.
Use of the B/C and C#/D Box tablatures on a 23-button instrument:
If you are playing a 23-button instrument, you will need to shift your start position one button higher when playing.
Consider your first button as "button zero".
How to Read the Anglo Concertina Tablature
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Older Tunebooks
Newer Tunebooks
Wheatstone Layout
Jeffries Layout
Click here to download a PDF of the Anglo Concertina tablature chart
Using the PDF Tunebooks on iOS and Android Devices
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While the PDF tunebooks are generally intended for desktop or laptop use, in most cases they can be used on mobile devices with some caveats.
Tune playback may not work in some iOS or Android app embedded web browser views, like the one in the iOS Facebook app.
If opening the PDF tunebook from Facebook on a mobile device, use the "Open in system browser" option (click the ... at the lower right of the web view) in the Facebook embedded web browser to re-open the file in Safari (iOS) or on Android on the device's main browser.
If using the tunebook on an iPad, be sure the PDF reader you are using is set to open web links in Safari, not an embedded browser.
On iOS, the tunebook has been tested and works with Safari, Books, Files, and GoodReader if you enable "Open web links in Safari" in the GoodReader app preferences.
Also make sure you haven't turned on the Mute control in the iPad control panel or the Mute switch on the side of an iPhone.
I have done limited testing on Android devices, unsure of the behavior on the various browsers on those devices.
Both the ABC Transcription Tools and Interactive PDF tunebook playback have been verified on an older Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge running Google Chrome as the default web browser and the "PDF Viewer" Android app:
My Tip Jars
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These tunebooks as well as my ABC Transcription Tools are completely free.
If you find these tunebooks useful, please support my ongoing development
of my ABC tools by tossing a few bucks into one of my virtual tip jars:
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Contact Me
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If you have any questions, please email me at:
Michael Eskin
seisiuneer@gmail.com