Yet Another Digital Tradition Page

Subject: Yet Another Digital Tradition Page
From: GUEST,lori nelson
Date: 17 Feb 03 - 10:11 PM

Hi

Does anybody know what has happened to the Yet Another Digital Tradtion Page http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/

I used to be able to get dulcimer tab from it but the gif images
and tab program aren't working.

Anybody know anything about it?

Lori

Subject: RE: Yet Another Digital Tradition Page
From: Alice
Date: 17 Feb 03 - 10:20 PM

yes, it is still there at that URL

Subject: RE: Yet Another Digital Tradition Page
From: Mr Happy
Date: 17 Feb 03 - 10:24 PM

its at

http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/

Subject: RE: Yet Another Digital Tradition Page
From: GUEST,lori nelson
Date: 17 Feb 03 - 10:32 PM

hi all

Thanks for your replies.

I know the page is still there but it isn't working. I was just at it trying to get more dulcimer tab.

No gifs are showing and when I try to get the dulcimer tab it doesn't work. That's my problem (:

On the main page it doesn't say anything about why it isn't working and I was wondering if anybody out there had any idea why it wasn't working.

Lori

Subject: RE: Yet Another Digital Tradition Page
From: mack/misophist
Date: 17 Feb 03 - 10:41 PM

Try asking the page's webmaster. He's the one who knows.

Subject: RE: Yet Another Digital Tradition Page
From: GUEST,lori
Date: 17 Feb 03 - 11:47 PM

Hi

I can't find any reference to a webmaster and there is no e-mail contact listed anywhere.

When I go to the sniff.numachi.com there is nothing listed
and then I try adding the name of rickheit part that doesn't lead anywhere either.

I'm totally stumped.

Lori

Subject: RE: Yet Another Digital Tradition Page
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 12:17 AM

Hi, Lori - I contacted the Webmaster long ago, and had some correspondence with him - but I don't have his e-mail any more.
I see that he has a new system of dulcimer tab notation. He may have been installing it when you tried. It's working now.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Yet Another Digital Tradition Page
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 02:04 AM

G'day Lori. I have an interest in encouraging development and use of freeware tablature programs which use abc notation.

Late last year I spent some energy trying to make ABC2TAB more user friendly for mandolin players. It was originally written for guitar and mountain dulcimer tablature and is available at http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/6390/.

With lots of help from Jon Freeman I contacted Lyle Mellick, the author, to try and fix some bugs in the mando part of the ptogram, (which he did not write) but did not spend much time looking at the dulcimer features. It probably works just fine and it's entirely possible that ABC2TAB is the backbone of the YADT dulcimer tab program.

Why is this remotely of interest to you? You can produce your own TABs at aby time without having to go online, and of course you can use songs or tunes that you obtain from other sources, or even create or modify yourself.

If you're interested in the DIY approach just PM me and I'll scrape the rust off my earlier work on this.

Regards, John

Subject: RE: Yet Another Digital Tradition Page
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 12:03 PM

Joe, it's not working for me. I get lyrics, but no score, no tab. He may be in the process of ironing out bugs

Subject: RE: Yet Another Digital Tradition Page
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 09:06 PM

The impression I get is that the dulcimer tab thing there is his own bit as opposed to abc2tab. I could of course be wrong though - my opinion is more feeling based than anything else.

I think it is fair to say that John In Briabane and I are very much on the same side in terms of belief in abc as a notation system, wanting to see people make use of an open standard system and free/ cheap software to help theselves, etc.

I do however worry about the bugs we found in abc2tab and that it's still not clear to me what is happening to the program at the moment.

Jon

Subject: RE: Yet Another Digital Tradition Page
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 09:40 PM

Oh, I see what you mean. He has all the apparatus in to produce tab as a GIF according to various specifications, but the GIF doesn't appear. Now, if we could figure out how he linked to his old system of dulcimer TAB, I wonder if it's still there.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Yet Another Digital Tradition Page
From: dulcimergal
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 09:55 PM

Hi guys

The main reason I liked that page is that I am a beginner dulcimer player and don't really have any musical training so it was nice to be able to get many nice songs that were tabbed out. Admittedly it didn't always work out but it mostly did.

The songs were also well suited for beginners for the most part.

I'm hoping that whoever designed the program for the dulcimer tabs can get it working again.

Lora