CCE 2001 Interactive PDF Tunebooks

[Michael Eskin]

I've put together interactive PDF versions of the CCE 2001 Tunebook (116 popular tunes), including standard notation, note incipits, tin whistle tab, mandolin tab, Jeffries and Wheatstone Anglo concertina tab, as well as B/C and C#/D box tab.

 

All have fully hyperlinked table of contents and index pages, and you can click on any tune title to play it in my ABC Tools.

 

Find them here:

 

http://michaeleskin.com/tunebooks.html#cce_tunebook

 

I have a lot of other tunebooks I've created on that page, please feel free to download them all!

Edited September 24, 2023 by Michael Eskin

[Michael Eskin]

For those of you on iOS, if you are using GoodReader as your PDF reader, and want to be able to play the tunes in my interactive PDF tunebooks, you'll need to change this one setting, available under the gear menu at the bottom of the app.

Enable "Use Safari for Internet links"

[David Barnert]

2 hours ago, Michael Eskin said:

For those of you on iOS, if you are using GoodReader as your PDF reader, and want to be able to play the tunes in my interactive PDF tunebooks, you'll need to change this one setting, available under the gear menu at the bottom of the app.

Enable "Use Safari for Internet links"

 

Back in February, when you first introduced this project, you said:

 

On 2/5/2023 at 10:36 PM, Michael Eskin said:

Works best on Chrome and Firefox.

 

Is that no longer the case? Does it work well in Safari?

[Michael Eskin]

David, I'm specifically talking about iOS, where Safari is king and all other browsers are basically skins on Apple's core iOS webview, since Apple doesn't allow true 3rd party browsers.

For desktop, even on Mac, I still recommend Chrome and Firefox, just not for iOS.

The tool does work fine on Safari on the Mac for the most part, it's just that sometimes Safari on Mac, not iOS, has odd rendering issues with grace notes used for transcribing ornamentation, so I suggest most people use Firefox or Chrome. 

Personally, on my Mac, I use Firefox,  it seems to be the fastest at rendering and generating PDF tunebooks. 

I would not recommend using Firefox on iOS for several reasons, the biggest of which is they totally dropped the ball on their iOS app when it comes to their browser user agent not reflecting either the iOS version or that it's actually Firefox.  There's a bug in iOS 17 that requires me to know that the browser is running on iOS 17 and there is no way to know that on Firefox on iOS. They are supposed to fix that in their next release.

Edited September 26, 2023 by Michael Eskin

[David Barnert]

Thanks for the explanation. I have both Safari and Firefox on my Mac. I use Safari for most things, but I have your site (and a few others) bookmarked on Firefox.

[Michael Eskin]

I find that Firefox is the fastest of the big three browsers on Mac for my tool, but for some things, like the box tablature, Chrome does a better job of rending some of the symbols I use, like the numbers in circles, on Chrome they are larger than on Firefox for the same font size. Go figure!