Yeah, I suppose it's kind of ironic that Joe Offer and MMario are working on the Digitrad tunes. I don't play an instrument and I don't sight-read music, but Sister John Bosco did a good job of teaching me music theory. I can't transcribe by ear, but my ear is good enough to tell me when an interval is wrong or the meter is off - and then I send the tune back to MMario for correction. I try not to hurt his feelings, but sometimes I'm a little hard on poor MMario.

After MMario and I finish with the tunes, I send them on to Dick Greenhaus for conversion into SongWright and inclusion in the Digital Tradition. Dick has been swamped with tunes because of MMario's tune-gathering campaign, so it may be quite some time before all the tunes get included.

If at all possible, I like to see Digital Tradition tunes that are transcribed from printed sources. We're looking for the melody only, no fancy stuff - and it's very helpful if you identify the source of the tune.

-Joe Offer-