Nineteenth century tunebook

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Mon May 28, 2007 6:51 am

I have just scanned the first volume of "O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes" and put it online at www.piob.info. I'll do the other volumes when I get round to it

Ross

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Mon May 28, 2007 7:51 am

Sorry Ross, but I couldn't find the O'Farrell tutor from your link.

Jumper · Post by **Jumper** » Mon May 28, 2007 9:53 am

Thanks, Ross!

Try again Joseph. And maybe clear you browser cache first.

misterpatrick · Post by **misterpatrick** » Mon May 28, 2007 10:53 am

Thanks! Great resource and I also really appreciate your MP3 collection of vintage recordings. Keep those coming as well.

I wonder if there is the equivalent of OCR for notation. It would be nice to have the original scans and then a cleaned up version for printing etc. I'll take a look around, I'm sure there is something out there.

Jumper · Post by **Jumper** » Mon May 28, 2007 11:23 am

misterpatrick wrote:It would be nice to have the original scans and then a cleaned up version for printing etc.

Pat Sky sells carefully cleaned up, printed and bound versions of this and many other piping-related books (including his own excellent "Manual for the Irish Uilleann Pipes"):

http://www.patricksky.com/Page-4.htm

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:05 pm

Volume 3 of O'farrell is now up on www.piob.info. The direct URL is

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf

I also hope to get volume 4 up in the next week or so. Matt Seattle has lent me his copy so it's just a matter of finding the time to copy it and scan it (thanks, Matt!)

Ross