Michael Eskin

Diss, there are already cross-row versions of the King Street Sessions Tunebook PDFs with concertina tab for both Wheatstone and Jeffries instruments, just not Gary Coover style tab: https://michaeleskin.com/tunebooks.html#kss If none of those work for you, I'd be happy to generate one for you when I return from a trip I am currently on, sometime around June 13. I need to know what style of instrument you play (Jeffries or Wheatstone), and if you prefer on-row or cross-row fingerings.

Often, at least on the cheap Chinese concertina-shaped objects, it's when you're fighting the stiff bellows to play at a moderate speed, that's a red flag. On an actual well-built concertina, that is almost never an issue.

FYI, this is also possible with my ABC Transcription Tools, with automatic fingering solutions for both Jeffies and Wheatstone instruments, cross-row and on-row fingering, and in multiple tunings (C/G, Bb/F, A/E, and G/D). The feature is limited to melody lines without harmonies. Here's a Jeffries, C/G, cross-row solution with Gary Coover(esque) tablature: https://michaeleskin.com/abctools/abctools.html?lzw=BoLgBAjAUApDC2BXAzgSwMbIA4EN0FNIAGWGHAO3IHsAXHG1K8gMyZrAAUcAbe1ayNAAq4IQAtCAaXzIxUAMKiATjgAmqBkx5QASuABSqAOZQAsuABsAegAcUADLgItqAEVwAZlsBeCACYSSXAAcXgcACtYWDAAVWRCGgkwZm5EVFUwZCpEclVWchoQWCycvLZk1PSomFj4sAowAEF0bOQGdDBglVzOVAoqTOye1iUwRMJ4fG4qVQBPIrhTAEkAESWwLCUqIxV4SA8ParAAZXx2HEysfHRUZgx6+CH2KmZMgHd+IwXkD-IjMCIADo-ABWaowNo4ZjMeJYMA2EgAHxAACIAPpgADcIJRwXRaOxKMa6KxOOCYBJhLxaIJOOJAD0CRAUQAhRH4wkMpmsjl0ik0zkoxmY5ksykQIgo1TsmlMyX4cWS1SKqUU+kWFFGFXKjEipUygUSlEK3VG5XC0X8rFmoXcsUCumIqCUsm8oku3FWqlurki1kGwUWnkOon82nuoP2636-Fy43a7VqjVa01K21+tk+j3UgkAdhRADEvWSPCAncj06Ks5GvTbI9qDXGFerNbG9cba2n6yHGuzu+HfZaE93SbiA3TK8GB2HBbrXT2nZP7QOl52pUuG22jc3k1v5WvzXbNy2tcKNcwhcm1XmUThL63hfmcH38wAje+ngnnpOa0uIoA&format=noten&ssp=10&name=The_Kesh&play=1

@Roger Hare Here's the process I would use:

Cool, just seems like you were doing it the hard way if you just want to cull and reorder tunes.

Roger, wouldn't it be easier to just use the Delete Tunes feature followed by Reorder Tunes to accomplish the same result? If I were doing this with a large tunebook and wanted multiple sets of tunes, not concatenated, but in a specific order 1) Load the large tunebook ABC into the Quick Editor 2) Click "Delete Tunes" on the ☰ menu 3) Click "Select All" 4) Unselect the tunes I plan to make into sets 5) Click "Delete" to remove the unused tunes 6) Click "Reorder Tunes" on the ☰ menu 7) Drag the tunes into the set order you want 8 ) Click "OK" The concatenated sets that are created by "Create Tune Set" are highly post-processed, have additional annotations added, and may not be well formed if you just start dropping X: tags in the middle of them.

Perhaps someone might be interested in buying the source code for all of them from me and take on updating them and re-releasing them. I can probably do that for all the non-Hohner branded apps, but even the Hohner apps could be "de-badged" with new generic artwork and re-released with a different name. Anyway, if you're an professional iOS developer with apps on the App Store and might be interested in this, contact me. Alternatively, I could continue to sell them under my branding, someone else could maintain them and we can do a revenue split. I have had this kind of arrangement for the Android versions with a friend for over a decade. This would include all the apps at: https://appcordions.com

Yes, slowly but surely, my less popular apps are getting pulled from the iTunes App store because I haven't updated them in 4 or 5 years. Eventually, they will probably all disappear and/or stop working on later devices and iOS versions and I have no plans to update them. I will probably completely exit the iOS app business in a year or so as new versions of iOS come out an probably break things. I just don't have the energy or enthusiasm to update them to jump through all of Apple's latest review hoops or update my Mac to the latest Mac OS for only purpose or being able to run the latest version of XCode to rebuild them. All of them are written in Objective C, they've really moved on to Swift, and I have zero enthusiasm to re-write them. They served their purpose, hundreds of thousands of people got a lot of inexpensive enjoyment out of them, and I did fine financially selling them for now nearly 15 years.

When creating tune sets from very large ABC collections (> 200 tunes), you may find it faster and easier to use the "Quick Editor" instead of the standard editor: This is particularly useful if you are appending the tune sets to the ABC in the editor, the "Quick Editor" doesn't have to wait for all the tunes to draw, only draws the appended tune set. Demo video:

I've completely redesigned the "Create Tune Set" feature to be easier to use and more powerful. Tune sets can be opened for playback or editing in a new browser tab or appended to the end of the current ABC. Click the tunes in the tune list to add them to the set. Numbers appear at the right of the tune names showing the tune order in the set. Click a tune again to remove it from the set. After selecting your tunes, click one of the action buttons at the bottom of the dialog to open the tune set in the Player in a new browser tab, open the tune set in the Editor in a new browser tab, or append the tune set to the current ABC in the editor. Settings: "Repeat each tune in the set when played" Unchecked - Tunes in the set play once. Checked - Tunes in the set play multiple times, set by the "Repeat Count" value. "Repeat count" If "Repeat each tune in the set when played is checked", now many times to play each the tunes in the set when opened in the Player. The settings are saved and restored the next time you run the tool. If you are working with extremely large tune books of several hundred tunes it will be faster to access this feature from the "Quick Editor" version. Click the item at the bottom of the hamburger menu to launch the "Quick Editor". The video is of the "Create Tune Set" features available in version: 2471_050425_1330 or later. The version number is displayed at the bottom left of the “Settings” dialog in the standard editor. If your version starts with a number less than 2471, click the version number to do a manual update of the tool. Try my free ABC Transcription Tools https://michaeleskin.com/abc User Guide https://michaeleskin.com/abctools/userguide.html Demo video:

Thanks for the kind words!

There are many varieties of these kind of inexpensive digital microscopes on Amazon: 7'' Digital Microscope 1200X,Dcorn 12MP 1080P Photo/Video Microscope for Adults Soldering Coins,Metal Stand,Wired Remote,10 LED Fill Lights,PC View,Windows/Mac Compatible https://a.co/d/aFz0JDC that might do the job for you. I have one but haven't used it specifically for reed work. As they have their own display, no need to connect it to my iPhone or iPad.

I'll have to test it tomorrow and report back.

They make a wide variety of inexpensive small wand style wireless HD cameras intended for use as ear wax cleaners. I have two of them and they make amazing ultra close-up inspection scopes. Example: https://a.co/d/cbhTsFf The camera has its own WiFi network that you connect to and then you run an app on the phone that connects to the camera. Some of them have built-in tweezers, but for inspection scope purposes, I would suggest any of the models that just have a camera and no tweezers.

I can put my concertina in it's hard case in one of the small cordura diatonic accordion backpacks, which provides me with the best of both worlds. Larger bags, perhaps one for a piano accordion would probably hold additional instruments.