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		<title>Tunes galore</title>
		<link>http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/03/05/tunes-galore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just released the March 2010 edition of the tune search &#8211; it&#8217;s reached 56,000 tunes now, clean and shiny and just itching to be played.
Chris
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		<title>tunepal.org</title>
		<link>http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/03/02/tunepal-org/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abcnotation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[search engine]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=271</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve mostly used this blog for posting updates about the abcnotation.com website. However, I just wanted to let people know about tunepal.org, a remarkable new abc development from Bryan Duggan.
It&#8217;s a query-by-playing search engine &#8211; in other words, you play a tune on an instrument of your choice and it will transcribe the sounds into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linux &amp; multi-platform software</title>
		<link>http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/02/12/linux-multi-platform-software/</link>
		<comments>http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/02/12/linux-multi-platform-software/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Minor improvement to the site &#8230;
Thanks to Sue Blake who pointed out that the software page didn&#8217;t show programs that work on Linux / Unix machines and gave me a list of those that do.
She also suggested a table showing multi-platform software &#8211; a good idea for those who use two different types of computer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You what?</title>
		<link>http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/02/05/you-what/</link>
		<comments>http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/02/05/you-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the joys of running a website is discovering all the different ways people find of trying to subvert it.
In particular, since the advent of the google search engine and the way it uses links to rank search results, having links pointing at your website is highly desirable.
Which means that, if you have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to understand abc (the basics)</title>
		<link>http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/01/31/how-to-understand-abc-the-basics/</link>
		<comments>http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/01/31/how-to-understand-abc-the-basics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How to ...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abc tune]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tune]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[the second in a series of articles on using and understanding abc]



Contents:

The structure of an abc tune
The header
The notes:- note lengths; bar lines; beams
Putting it all together
Further reading





OK. So let&#8217;s suppose you&#8217;ve just come across abc and you want to know a little more about how it works before delving deeper.
Or maybe you&#8217;ve already started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The abc website</title>
		<link>http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/01/15/the-abc-website/</link>
		<comments>http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/01/15/the-abc-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are still loads of links out there for the old versions of the abc website address and I&#8217;m just putting up this message in the vain hope that people might correct them.
The correct address is now, and hopefully will be for many years to come, http://abcnotation.com.
Addresses you may encounter (and a brief history):

http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top of the Pops 2</title>
		<link>http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/01/05/top-of-the-pops-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tune]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just amended &#8211; slightly &#8211; the code that creates the top tune charts so that it now excludes recent winners for a week.
When I was setting the charts up and running a test version I did wonder if they might end up as self perpetuating &#8230; and so it proved. They worked fine when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top of the pops</title>
		<link>http://abcnotation.com/blog/2009/12/30/top-of-the-pops/</link>
		<comments>http://abcnotation.com/blog/2009/12/30/top-of-the-pops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tune]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been amusing myself over the Christmas period by writing a bit of code that works out the top ten tune pages visited and searches made recently.
You can see the results on the charts page (and the top 3 are also shown in the quick links panel on the home page and search page).
[For those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to get started with abc notation</title>
		<link>http://abcnotation.com/blog/2009/12/23/how-to-get-started-with-abc-notation/</link>
		<comments>http://abcnotation.com/blog/2009/12/23/how-to-get-started-with-abc-notation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How to ...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abc tune]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[notation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tune]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tune search]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[the first in a series of articles on using and understanding abc]



Contents:

Finding the dots to a tune
Viewing and/or listening to abc notation
Further reading





So you&#8217;ve heard about abc notation and you&#8217;re intrigued enough to want to find out more.
Or maybe someone has sent you a tune in abc notation and you want to hear what it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas</title>
		<link>http://abcnotation.com/blog/2009/12/21/merry-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://abcnotation.com/blog/2009/12/21/merry-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=101</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s been some time since I last blogged &#8211; nearly three months. Eek!
Partly, it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been very busy at work, writing the lectures for a new course on 3D graphics.
I&#8217;ve also been busy rehearsing and recording with my new band Angles (with Cliff Stapleton &#38; Richard Jones) and playing with my new G [...]]]></description>
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