Anyone who has visited the abc tune search more than once since the site was launched (just over a week ago) may have noticed the gradual evolution of the paragraph above the search box.<\/p>\n
It’s gone through several variations already in the last week and now says:<\/p>\n
IMPORTANT NOTE: Sorry, but there are no scores or lyrics for pop\/rock music<\/strong> in the abc tune search (though you could try here<\/a>). See the search help page<\/a> for reasons why not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Naively, I had imagined that people searching for stuff here would be looking for traditional music, so I hadn’t thought such a clarification was necessary.<\/p>\n
But of course, you can easily end up on the tune search from a Google search, with no context about what abc is or isn’t and where it comes from.<\/p>\n
And when I started to look at the logs of what people were searching for, it became clear that indeed that is happening.<\/p>\n
Although mostly the searches are what you might expect (especially if you’re familiar with traditional music – someone, somewhere, has just done a search for “Scatter the mud”), already I’ve seen searches for Metallica, Iron Maiden and some Beatles songs.<\/p>\n
So anyway, I put the paragraph up just so as not to strain the server with searches which are almost certain to be fruitless.<\/p>\n