Bagpipe Stuff
Patrick's Stuff
Click HERE to access the BMW to ABC translation tool. Always a work in progress!
BMW stands for Bagpipe Music Writer. This translation tool, which converts BMW code into ABC code, is still in its infancy. It can only convert, as far as I've tried, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 9/8, and 2/2 time signatures. Whether it does more time signatures than those listed (correctly), is for you to try for yourself. It should work though. Any problems can be reported to me using the email form below (please copy and paste the BMW code it wasn't able to translate into the form!). The ABC output is how I would write the ABC code. It is not the simplest or maybe even the standard (if there is such a thing), but it is the format I have developed to ease reading and modifying.
It isn't perfect, I'm not the greatest programmer, and BMW code is weird (hence why I want to be able to convert it to {the better} ABC, and I use Apple computers {there is no BMW program for Apple computers, though there are Apple programs capable of reading BMW code}).
Barfly is a free ABC music notation system for Apple computers.
Check out Andrew Lenz's site for a helpful tutorial on using ABC for bagpipes.
Check out Concertina.net for an online ABC to JPEG and PDF graphical conversion and a MIDI sound file.
Check out Jens Wollschl�ger's ABC-Transposer to transpose all your ABC tunes into different keys!
And HERE is a quick reference website for all your basic info on ABC syntax.