Rip The Calico -printed music?

elliott · Post by **elliott** » Fri Jan 10, 2003 11:41 pm

I just wandered over to the BBC virtual session

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/folk/acoust ... unch.shtml

and got knocked out (again!) by "Rip The Calico". But I couldn't get the print button to do anything. Google didn't help either.

Can someone post it here or tell me where to go on the Net? And, could someone tell me how to use Google to find printed tunes? And what do you do to get the BBC thingie to print (on an old Mac)?

Thanks!

Easily_Deluded_Fool · Post by **Easily_Deluded_Fool** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 3:24 am

I just got on the site with no problem.

Advice about printing from there....
The print option will waste a lot of ink and paper, putting the tune in the middle of an A4 sheet, and colouring in the empty space above and below. Use the Printscrn button on yer keyboards, and Paste the image into WORD
or STAROFFICE. Dunno about Mac's but Linux os users can use Star Office no problem.

Drop me an email and I'll send you the screen print as a Word attachment, or as a bmp or jpg or tif - specify wot yer need

elliott · Post by **elliott** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 12:58 pm

Thanks for the advice about the BBC page..

I haven't found any of the programs you mentioned on my old Mac. I think they are PC.

I can't e-mail you (for technical reasons - I erased Outlook Express), but you can e-mail me.

Don't know much about formats, but I have Microsoft Word and I think jpegs are OK too. If that helps.

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JMcCYoung · Post by **JMcCYoung** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 4:28 pm

On 2003-01-11 00:41, ELLIOTT wrote:

Can someone post it here or tell me where to go on the Net? And, could someone tell me how to use Google to find printed tunes? And what do you do to get the BBC thingie to print (on an old Mac)?

I encourage you to broaden your search to abc files of tunes. The Pub Scouts' version of Rip the Calico in abc form was the fifth Google result (although admittedly not identical to the BBC site's version).

http://rigel.csuchico.edu/~pubscout/tun ... alico.html

<i>Sometimes</i> you can find abc's of tunes by putting an abc of the first (or really any) measure of the music into Google, but I didn't get any hits for the BBC version of this one.

Even pretty old Macs can run Phil Taylor's BarFly abc application:

http://www.barfly.dial.pipex.com/

It will both display in dot form and play tunes.

JC's Tunefinder:

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html

returns what might be as many as 10 different versions, and you can view dot versions as .pdf or .gif files if you don't want to bother with abc's.

John

Ridseard · Post by **Ridseard** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 4:45 pm

What's wrong with printing it by hand on music paper? Too simple?

Groovehead · Post by **Groovehead** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 5:15 pm

See if you can get one of these to work for you.

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elliott · Post by **elliott** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 7:49 pm

Been there and done that, Ridseard, for the last thirty years.

I'm six weeks into owning a computer and being on-line, so I'm still learning what they can do and how to do it.

I teach you whistle, you teach me compooter, so to speak.

By the way, how do you pronounce "Ridseard" and what does it mean?

Ridseard · Post by **Ridseard** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 8:24 pm

On 2003-01-11 20:49, ELLIOTT wrote:
By the way, how do you pronounce "Ridseard" and what does it mean?

It's just a Gaelic translation of Richard (my real name). It's pronounced RI-tchurt.