Haven't played with this subject for about 18 months, really just long enough to prove that the concept works, ie to create a pictorial/graphical image of how notes are played for a variety of instruments - over a 2 octave scale including semitones. I did it for tin whistle, harmonica and saxophone. Presumably it could be used for any instrument which requires fingering, particularly woodwind.

The concept is simple:

- Create a unique Font for a given instrument and install on your PC or Mac with other test or True Type fonts.

- Type out the tune in any simple wordprocessor, in any convemient Western text font.

- Change the font to that for the nominated instrument, eg Alto Sax and hey presto you have a little picture of the fingering for each note. If the text is used in the lyrics line of a score printing program (such as NoteWorthy Composer) then you can print the notes in conventional music notation and the fingering for each note will be displayed under each note.

Any future queries just drop me a PM.

The Font Creator Program is of medium difficulty to learn, requires a degree od dogged tedium, but works fine. At the time I was using it I found nothing else to rival it on the Web.

Regards, John