Yeah, I think I need a MIDI keyboard. I do tape what I can and use NWC to transcribe from tape or memory, but it's so cumbersome, especially since I am not sure what the fiddler has to do to give me what I want. I have two good tunes partly enterted, but have had many more slip through my mind and out the car window.

I know where all this comes from-- when I was too little to walk or talk, my dad started me on listening to great classical music and singers of the time--and he would focus me on one instrument at a time, then whole sections, instruements in pairs playing together or against each other... training me to HEAR them all separately as well as together. All those snips of excellently applied music theory and creative license are stored away down deep in my memory, and I use them like building blocks. Due to our family circumstances, life then overlaid on that a learning style that must be free and follow its own course, so I lack the vocabulary I might have gained in music school. So now it amounts to having the ear and talent to arrange, but few if any tools to do it with. So, a MIDI keyboard seems necessary eventually.

~Susan