RE: [Harp-L] Re: Help a learner

["mlefree@silverwinggraphics" <mlefree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

JOHN AUST wrote:
> You might find Melody Assistant to be what you need to produce harp
tab.
> http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/melody.htm the trial is free
but
> the full program is fairly cheap anyway. If you have your tunes in abc
> format the program does it by itself, eg the pipe tunes on
> http://www.goodbagpipes.co.uk/pipetunes/daydawes.htm
> Melody Assistant will give tab for various tunings for all keys,
diatonic
> and chromatic but you can also customise the tabbing for special
tunings e.g
> Paddy richter which avoids the double bend on the 3 draw that is on
many of
> the pipe tunes.
> If your tunes are text format then it's easy to convert it to abc
using
> ABC2WIN for example.
> Otherwise you would have to key in the tune as a music score and then
> convert to harmonica tab, takes a bit longer.

Hey, John -

Can you have Melody Assistant generate tabs in other than 1st position?
I've been unable to figure out how to do this and the inability to do so
puts a pretty severe limitation on the program's use, for me anyway.

Thanks,

Michelle