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ABC - ABC Notation. Tunes/Songs recorded in text files and displayable as standard treble staff notation.
 ABC Basics - How to understand ABC Notation (the basics) - abcnotation.com/blog/2010/01/31/how-to-understand-abc-the-basics/
 ABC Software Page - Links to many computer programs that allow you to work easily with ABC Notation. Available for Web,Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android, more - abcnotation.com/software
 ABC Transcription Tools - ABC Transcription Tools is a free, web-based, open-source tool for converting music in ABC and MusicXML format to both standard notation and tablature for a wide variety of instruments. Developed by Michael Eskin. - michaeleskin.com/abctools/userguide.html#table_of_contents and michaeleskin.com/abctools/userguide.html#introduction
 ABC Tune Finder - John Chambers' all-inclusive abc tune finder, a comprehensive search engine for finding abc tunes on the web. - trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind
 ABC Wiki - This is a wikified version of the draft revised ABC standard. Includes an easy to read display of the Information Fields with great descriptions of each - abcwiki.selfthinker.org/abc:syntax
 ABC notation home page - Welcome to abcnotation.com, home of ABC notation - the text-based music notation system and the de facto standard for folk and traditional music. Around 700,000 tunes (available as free sheet music or midi sound files) at this site alone - abcnotation.com/
 AbcMus - AbcMus is a program for tunebooks in ABC format - www.norbeck.nu/abcmus/index.html
 David Belcher`s ABC Notation Page - Links to David`s favorite ABC Software, Repositories, and his own Songs/Tunes - www.davidbelcher.net/abc/
 Fiddle Tunes from Bernie Waugh - American and Canadian 4-Beat (Reel-like) Tunes, Celtic and British 4-Beat (Reel-like) Tunes, JigsWaltzes - www.math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/waugh/
 Folk Tune Finder - FolkTuneFinder.com is a web-wide search engine that catalogues tens of thousands of tunes from across the web. You find tunes by title or a piece of the melody. Search for tunes transcribed in the ABC format - www.folktunefinder.com/
 JC's Online Music Books - A number of historic tune collections have been transcribed to ABC notation, and most of them are mirrored at several places on the Web. Here are the collections that I have copies of... - trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/
 SPUDs Tunes - A Contra dance band from Philadelphia provides Notation in ABC for Reels, Jigs, and Everything Else! - www.thursdaycontra.com/~spuds/TuneLinks.html
 The Lesession pages - ABC music notation tutorial, tune collections in ABC, rauschpfeifes, and more ... - www.lesession.co.uk/abc/abc_notation.htm
 Traditional Tune Archive - The Semantic Index of North American, British and Irish traditional instrumental music with annotation, formerly known as The Fiddler's Companion. Presents notation, history and ABC code for an amazing collection of tunes! - www.tunearch.org/wiki/TTA

Bluegrass -
Bluegrass Music Topics - The music, history, and locations.
 Bluegrass Jams in Tucker GA - We are an Official Jam Site for the SouthEastern Bluegrass Association. Pickers, Singers, and Audience of all levels are welcome. Music fires off on Wednesday and Thursday and Sunday evenings around 6pm. Come on by! Photos and details in the link - www.davidbelcher.net/Bluegrass_Jams_In_Tucker_GA/
 Bluegrass Messengers - An amazing collection of Bluegrass Lyrics and information on Roots Music. A lot of work & research went into this site. - www.bluegrassmessengers.com/home.aspx
 Bluegrass: American Classics - Tennessee River Authority - An hour of nice Bluegrass music on YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj6-lGfkOpk
 Everett`s Barn - Everett’s Music Barn has been a fixture on the Bluegrass Scene for over 38 years. Open Every Saturday night, you can find the best talent in the bluegrass world picking in the Barn. - www.everettsmusicbarn.net/
 SEBA - SouthEastern Bluegrass Association. Events, Bands and Bluegrass resources in Atlanta and north GA. - www.facebook.com/pages/SEBA/120480241362018 and www.sebabluegrass.org/

Fiddle -
Information about fiddles and fiddling.
 Atlanta Area Friends of Folk music - This site lists information about folk music and related activities in the greater Atlanta area and the Southeastern U.S. - aaffm.org/
 Electric Fiddler - We bring you the last news and info from the electric violin world. - electricfiddler.com/
 Fiddle Hangout - The mission of the Fiddle Hangout is to become the world's most comprehensive fiddle resource. We're doing it by bringing the world's fiddle players together with powerful community-building tools created for musicians, by musicians. Has tabs for a bunch of great tunes. - www.fiddlehangout.com/ and www.fiddlehangout.com/tab/
 Fiddle T-shirts - Fiddle T-shirts for sale with Fiddles, Cats, and Humor - www.cafepress.com/+fiddle+t-shirts
 Fiddler Magazine - Fiddler Magazine is an informative, educational, and entertaining resource for fiddlers, accompanists, and appreciative listeners. Each quarterly issue (now approx. 60 pages each) features a variety of different styles of fiddling, as well as plenty of other articles and columns. Regular columns include: Bluegrass Fiddling, “The Practicing Fiddler,” Fiddle Tune History, On Improvisation, Irish Fiddling, Cross-Tuning Workshop, Cross-Canada Fiddle Tour, and reviews of CDs, books, and DVDs. Each issue also includes transcriptions of several tunes - www.fiddle.com/Home.page
 Fiddler Man - This guy offers lots of information on lots of fiddle/violin topics. Including this page on getting started... - fiddlerman.com/fiddle-learning-tools/where-do-i-start/
 Guide to choosing violin strings - Gut, Steel, or Synthetic? Discussion of each type with a listing of characteristics of various brands of strings. References to other sites discussing strings, too! - www.violinist.com/wiki/violin-strings/
 Huthmaker Violins - Luthier and general information on violins in Suwanee, GA - www.huthmakerviolins.com
 Ronald Sachs - Violin Luthier - Luthier & showroom in Lilburn, GA - www.ronaldsachs.com/
 Traditional Tune Archive - The Semantic Index of North American, British and Irish traditional instrumental music with annotation, formerly known as The Fiddler's Companion. Presents notation, history and ABC code for an amazing collection of tunes! - www.tunearch.org/wiki/TTA

Midi -
Midi
 Hetzler's Fakebook - Midi for Old Time & Celtic tunes - hetzler.homestead.com/music_2.html
 Karaoke Karen's Karaoke - Lyrics and midis for tons of songs in many categories here: - www.soundpiper.com/mln/midi.htm

Miscellaneous Music -
Music
 500 Songs That Shaped Rock MusicI - James Henke, chief curator for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with the help of music writers and critics, selected 500 songs (not only rock songs) that they believe have been most influential in shaping rock and roll. The list is alphabetical by artist. - www.infoplease.com/culture-entertainment/music/500-songs-shaped-rock
 ASCAP & BMI - History & basic info - www.woodpecker.com/writing/essays/royalty-politics.html
 Alan Lomax - Music Collector. - research.culturalequity.org/home-audio.jsp
 Atlanta Accordion Club - sites.google.com/site/atlantaaccordionclub/home
 Atlanta Area Friends of Folk music - This site lists information about folk music and related activities in the greater Atlanta area and the Southeastern U.S. - www.aaffm.org/
 Atlanta Concert Band - An amateur orchestra that performs around Atlanta. - www.atlantaconcertband.org/
 Autoharp - Autoharp Resources
  Autoharp - Autoharp Music Tips and Autoharp Folk Radio - www.autoharpmusic.com/
  Autoharp - This page is for all autoharp lovers, pickers and grinners in the hope that it will help you connect with players, performers, lutheirs and other resources for the instrument. - www.autoharp.org/
  Autoharp - d'Aigle Autoharps. Retailer & autoharp info. - www.daigleharp.com/
 BagPipes - Eastern United States Pipe Band Association - euspba.org/
 Banjo - Five String Fun! (or maybe four, sometimes, and that's OK)
  Banjo Hangout - Loads of Banjo Stuff. Forums, Tabs, Lessons - www.banjohangout.org/
  Banjo.com - Banjo Info and Instruments in Atlanta - www.banjo.com/
  Bluegrass Banjo Tablature - Welcome to Phillip Mann`s Banjo Tab Collection and Bluegrass Information Site!The FIRST Banjo Tablature and Bluegrass Information Site to be on the Internet. - bluegrassbanjo.org/
  Dr Banjo. Pete Wernick - Banjo Info and lessons like Jamming Techniques - drbanjo.com/
  Free Sheet Misic.net - Banjo Tablature (you can see it), MIDI files (you can hear it), Play it (you're on your own here!). - www.freesheetmusic.net/banjo.html
  The Canonical List of Banjo Jokes - A banjo player walked into a bar….. - www.bluegrassbanjo.org/banjokes.html
 Bass - Help! My fiddle passed puberty, grew big, and his voice dropped. What am I going to do?!?
  Gollihur music - Upright bass store with great additional information about the products - www.gollihurmusic.com/index.cfm
  TalkBass.com - Double Bass Forums Play double bass? This category contains our Double Bass Forums, such as Basses, Bows, Music Theory, and Classifieds - www.talkbass.com/ and www.talkbass.com/forums/
 Bluegrass Shack - Bluegrass Shack Productions! We specialize in acoustic instruments and accessories for bluegrass and folk musicians. - www.thebluegrassshack.com/
 CD Recordable! - This FAQ for info on recordable CDs covers all aspects of what it is and how to use it. - www.cdrfaq.org/
 Celtic music - Welcome to Ceolas, the home of celtic music on the internet, since 1994. Ceolas houses the largest online collection of information on celtic music, and has links to hundreds of related sites. - www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html
 Chattahoochee Country Dancers - Contra Dancing in Atlanta. You might be a Contra Dancer if ... the last time a sales clerk asked if you wanted to see a lady`s chain you took her hand and almost pulled her across the counter before you stopped yourself. - www.contradance.org/index.php and www.contradance.org/calendar
 Chord Charts - Chord Charts - Pick a chord and see the notes on a piano keyboard - www.8notes.com/piano_chord_chart/C.asp
 Chords to Folk Songs - Chords to Folk Songs - folkguitar.us/chords/
 Christmas songs - Welcome to The Hymns and Carols of Christmas! - www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/
 Digital Library of Appalachia - The Digital Library of Appalachia provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The contents of the DLA are drawn from special collections of Appalachian College Association member libraries. - www.aca-dla.org/
 Dulcimer - Dulcimer Resources
  Three Rivers Dulcimer Society - Here is some of the music you’ll hear us playing. The links below will bring up a printable sheet of music with (usually) both dulcimer tablature and standard musical notation, and sometimes even some guitar chords. For some songs, both melody and harmony parts are available. - 3rdsdulcimer.wixsite.com/mysite
 Elderly Instruments - A great store for bluegrass and folk instruments and associated equipment - www.elderly.com/
 Florida Folk Festival - The annual Florida Folk Festival, the oldest state folk festival in the U.S., celebrates the rich and diverse folklife of the state. Throughout this three-day event, tradition bearers present music, dance, stories, crafts and more -- making the program a favorite for thousands of visitors. - www.southfloridafolkfest.com/
 Folk Musician Instruments - Mandolins, Fiddles, Dulcimers, Banjos, Violins, Guitars, Ukuleles - www.folkmusician.com/
 Free Bluegrass Backing Tracks - A collection of Backing Tracks for Bluegrass, Old-Time, Celtic and more! Chords are shown and played for each song/tune. There is even a SlowDowner! - www.fbbts.com/Home.html
 Guitar - Guitar Resources
  Flatpicked Guitar & Mandolin music - Tunes for beginning and intermediate level guitar flatpickers and mandolin players in Tabledit format. - kimandmikeontheroad.com/music.htm
  Guitar Chords - Click a chord name and see the fingering for the chord. Includes Circle Of 5ths - www.all-guitar-chords.com/index.php
  Guitar - Acoustic Guitarists' Annotated Guide to the Internet - www.museweb.com/ag/
  Online Guitar Tuner - Click any note to get a nice tone to tune to - www.get-tuned.com/html5-guitar-tuner.php
 How To Read Music: Common Notation - This is the first module in the course Reading Music, which is an introduction to common notation. This module includes: Some basic definitions, Practical suggestions for learning how to read music accurately and independently, Practical suggestions for learning how to use sheet music as a guide and memory aid, A discussion of alternative music notations, A discussion of music reading vs. playing by ear - cnx.org/contents/iUyUmVyR@10.5:K6Bdtk0k@1/How-to-Read-Music
 Irish - Irish Music and Resources
  Irish - Irish Songs - music, Lyrics and Midis for Traditional, Drinking and Folk Songs - www.ireland-information.com/irishmusic/irishsongs-music-lyrics-midis.htm
  O'Neills Music of Ireland - AIRS & SONGS, MARCHES, JIGS & DOUBLEJIGS, SLIPJIGS, REELS, LONGDANCES, HORNPIPES, O'CAROLAN'S COMPOSITIONS. Most available in Noteworthy Format, ABC Format, Sheet Music notation, and MIDI - www.oldmusicproject.com/oneils1.html
  Session Sheet music - A Collection of Tunes Played at the NOVA Irish Session. Double Jigs - Single Jigs / Slides - Slip Jigs - Reels - Hornpipes - Polkas - Waltzes - Miscellaneous - www.novasession.org/Bog%20Kit/bwindex.htm
 Jack Tuttle - Performer, Instructor, and writer of great music books! - www.jacktuttle.com/
 John C. Campbell Folk School. - On our 372 acre farm-campus in the mountains of western North Carolina we offer more than 450 week long and weekend classes for adults year round covering a wide variety of traditional and contemporary crafts, folk music, folk dance, photography, nature studies, food, writing, and storytelling. - www.folkschool.com/
 Jokes about Instruments - Jokes about violin, banjo, bass, woodwinds, horns and bunches more. - www.mit.edu/people/jcb/jokes/
 Karaoke Karen's Karaoke - Lyrics and midis for tons of songs in many categories here: - www.soundpiper.com/mln/midi.htm
 Karaoke vanBasco Karaoke - Lyrics and midis for tons of songs in many categories here. And a great player, too! - - www.vanbasco.com/
 LearnBluegrass.com - Lessons for fiddle and banjo with notes on how to select one. - www.learnbluegrass.com/
 Lois and The Ugly Stick - A very interesting rhythm instrument! - www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rYVtj_l6KY&feature=email
 Mandolin - Mandolin Resources
  Flatpicked Guitar & Mandolin music - Tunes for beginning and intermediate level guitar flatpickers and mandolin players in Tabledit format. - kimandmikeontheroad.com/music.htm
  Mandolin - Mandolin cafe - Forum, News, Workshops, Interviews - www.mandolincafe.com/
  Tune Of the Week - From Mandolin Cafe - How much can you learn weekly? Starts with ABC for notes then shows a host of pickers doing their own takes in video. - www.mandolincafe.com/forum/group.php?do=discuss&discussionid=413
  Mandoliniana - Mandolin tunes and tab and discussion by the incomparable David Mold - mandoliniana.blogspot.com/
 McGuinn's Folk Den - Roger McGuinn of the Byrds has recorded lots of folk songs: - metalab.unc.edu/jimmy/folkden/
 Mckinney Washtub Two - Thanks for coming by to check out the storysinging and songtelling of The McKinney Washtub Two! Great singers and good people! They played at The Fountain in Tucker, GA, among other places.... - www.mckinneywashtubtwo.com
 Monty Python - Lyrics - - www.montypython.net/songlyrics.php
 Music Paper - Got Notes? And nowhere to put them? Here`s a colection of printable blank music papers in PostScript and PDF formats. All are for 81/2 x 11 paper (portrait orientation) unless otherwise noted. - people.virginia.edu/~pdr4h/musicpaper/
 Old Time Radio Shows - Listen to Old Time Radio Shows on your computer. Shows like Gunsmoke, Richard Diamond - Private Eye, CBS Radio Mystery Theater - archive.org/details/oldtimeradio
 On-Line Music World of Wendy - A great collection of links to other sites for: Old-Time, Banjo, Fiddle, Notes/Tab, The music, Videos - www3.telus.net/On-LineMusicWorldofWendy/
 Pagagnini - More fun than anyone should have with musical instruments! - www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Pagagnini&aq=f
 Pan Flutes - Brad White's Pan Flute shop. Good flutes and good info - - panflute.net/
 Piano - Piano Resources
  Piano Clues - Clueless about playing the piano, organ or electronic keyboard? Here you'll find plenty of tips to get started, in any style from classical to jazz and pop. - www.pianoclues.com/
  Piano Education Page - is a one-stop resource for teachers, students, parents of students, and fans of the piano with over 450 pages of free information, upgraded biweekly. Here you can get tips on learning to play the piano including getting the right kind of piano lessons .... - pianoeducation.org/
  Piano Nanny - Piano Lessons & Music Instruction - www.pianonanny.com/
  Piano Page - Tons of info all about pianos. - www.ptg.org/
 Remove noise from LPs recorded to PCs - www.diamondcut.com/
 Sing Out Magazine - Folk music resources. - www.singout.org/
 Sound Effects - Sound Effects
  FindSounds.com - FindSounds.com lets you search the Web for sound effects and sample sounds. - www.findsounds.com/
  Sound Jay - A nice collection of free sound effects for downloading. - www.soundjay.com/
 Strings Magazine - Instruction, Information, and Inspiration for players of violin, viols, cello, bass and fiddle. - stringsmagazine.com
 Harmonica Tabs - Harmonica Tabs - Who would have thunk it ?!? - www.harptabs.com/
 The MudCat Cafe - The Digital Traditions Folksong Database Search Page. News, Lyrics, and sounds. - www.mudcat.org/
 Tin Whistle - Such a tiny little thing to have such a big impact!
  Chiff & Fipple - Welcome to Chiff & Fipple, the ultimate guide to the instrument known as the tinwhistle, pennywhistle, Irish whistle, or just plain whistle. - www.chiffandfipple.com/
  Learning To Play The Tin Whistle - Learning To Play The Tin Whistle - www.irish-folk-songs.com/learning-tin-whistle.html
 ToneWay Mountain Music Collection - The songs here are variously called bluegrass songs, old-time songs, mountain music songs, folk songs… all different names for what we broadly call people music. Most of the songs featured here are also available (with chords) in our songbooks. - toneway.com/songs
 Transpose Keys - Paste lyrics with chords and pick a new key - www.logue.net/xp/
 Transposer - Transpose songs to any key using our chord transposer, here at TheoreticallyCorrect.com.any chords and lyrics you type or paste. - www.theoreticallycorrect.com/transposer
 Tropical Glen on-line Jukebox Player - Play music from 1950 - 1989 plus many genre's - www.tropicalglen.com/
 Tuner - Online Tuner - Click any note to get a nice tone to tune to - www.get-tuned.com/html5-guitar-tuner.php
 Ukulele - Ukulele Resources
  Richard Hefner’s FREE ukulele instruction - Many excellent videos on How To Play with lots of videos of familiar songs/tunes to play along with. - ezfolk.com/
  The Daily Ukulele - Five great songbooks for ukulele enthusiasts of all playing abilities. For regular ukes and the great Baritone! 365 song in each book. Great for groups. - www.dailyukulele.com/
 Unusual Instruments - Pictures, descriptions, and links about musical instruments that are just strange. Some of them are quite weird! it even includes Salvador Dali's Violin - www.siegelproductions.ca/fiddlefarmers/unusualinstruments.html
 Violin - See the Fiddle section of this page. What`s the difference in a violin and a fiddle anyway? - www.davidbelcher.net/pages/music.php#fiddle
 Woodsongs Old TIme Radio Hour - Woodsongs is a worldwide multi-media celebration of grassroots, Americana music. Get ready to explore the beautiful world of folk, bluegrass, songwriting, new artists, literature, worldwide radio, television and concerts. Features a video archive of past shows. You don`t have to be famous to be on Woodsongs, just very, very good! - www.youtube.com/user/WoodsongsOTRH/featured

Old TIme music -
Old-Time Music Topics - Feel like dancing?.
 Hetzler`s Fakebook - Midi for Old Time & Celtic tunes - hetzler.homestead.com/music_2.html
 Hill Country Tunes by Sam Bayard - Hill Country Tunes was published in 1944 by Samuel Bayard. It contains transcriptions of Appalachian fiddle tunes that he collected from the Southwestern Pennsylvania area. The book is long out of print. - www.mne.psu.edu/lamancusa/tunes/hct/index.htm
 Nashville Old-Time String Band Association - Dedicated to sharing and promoting Old-Time music. NOTSBA is open to anyone who has a love for Old-Time music. Musicians of all ages and abilities are welcome. Drop in sometime when you are in Nashville, Tennessee! - notsba.org/
 Old Time Fiddle Tunes - A collection of fiddle tunes from old recordings, festivals, jams and workshops, notated by John Lamancusa. Click on the tune name for the sheet music (pdf file), the piano keys to hear a synthesized midi file, or disc picture for a recording. - www.mne.psu.edu/lamancusa/tunes.html
 Old Time Music Jam Machine - Free backup tracks for all your favorite old-time tunes - www.oldtimejam.com/
 Old Town School of Folk Music - Fiddle Tunes - The Old Town School of Folk Music (in Chicago) teaches and celebrates music and cultural expressions rooted in the traditions of diverse American and global communities. Their Fiddle Tune Archive page has audio`s of many fiddle tunes. - www.oldtownschool.org/classes/adults/fiddle/tunes/
 The Way of the Fiddle - This is a collection of old-time fiddle tunes — most of them from Appalachia — that I collected for my own use and would like to share with other fiddlers who love this kind music. - www.abbamoses.com/fiddledo/fiddlepage.html

People -
Musical People
 Bitsyland String Band - A bunch of fun people who play aound Atlanta. Music and Humor Guaranteed to Make You Laugh and Tap Your Toes! -- Fiddle Tunes, Pop Standards, Gospel, and a Touch of Bluegrass - www.bitsyland.com/
 Buffy Saint-Marie - Her home page with biography, discography. - www.creative-native.com/
 Jimmy Driftwood - The Jimmy Driftwood Story from MudCat Cafe. A great musician & story teller from Arkansas with loads of humor songs. - www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=5659
 Joan Baez - Joan Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter and activist who is best known for songs like 'There But for Fortune,' 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' and 'Diamonds and Rust.' - www.joanbaez.com/home/ and www.biography.com/musician/joan-baez
 John Hartford - John Hartford was an American original. He was a musician, songwriter, steamboat pilot, author, artist, disc jockey, calligrapher, dancer, folklorist, father, and historian. - www.johnhartford.com/
 Kossoy Sisters - Twins with amazing voices. - www.countrystandardtime.com/d/article.asp?xid=548
 Pete Seegar - Pete has not only spent his life blessing the world with music, he has dedicated his time to bettering it socially as well. His life has had a profound impact on many people and many causes. - www.mudcat.org/pete.cfm
 Rockapella - a cappella excellence. As one of the progenitors of the astonishing full-band sound of “contemporary” a cappella, Rockapella has shown every audience the raw power of pure vocal talent and originality. Really good music with no strings attached. - www.rockapella.com/
 Ruth Bloomquist - Fantastic musician with great sound and lyrics - www.ruthbloomquist.com/
 Sweetwater Creek Bluegrass Band - Sweetwater Creek Bluegrass Band, a trio from Atlanta, Georgia with tight harmonies and smooth picking, and featuring Ernie Cole on bass, Penn McClatchey on guitar and David Mold on mandolin. - www.sweetwater-creek.com/
 The Demented Music Database! - Welcome to the only official Dr. Demento playlist archive! This is your source for details about everything played on The Dr. Demento Show from 1970 to today. - dmdb.org/

Search -
Search for Lyrics, Tunes, Notation, Chords, Tabs
 ABC - Text File Format for many, many fiddle tunes, Celtic, Scotch, Irish, and more
  ABC Tune Finder - John Chambers' all-inclusive abc tune finder, a comprehensive search engine for finding abc tunes on the web. - trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind
  Alf's Place - Alf Warnock has put together an amazing collection of ABC files including Airs, Hornpipes, Jigs, Marches, Non-Irish Reels, Polkas, Reels, Slides, Slip Jigs, Waltzes, and even A few English Country Dances. Links to good resources are here, too.... - www.alfwarnock.info/alfs/abc.php and www.alfwarnock.info/alfs/links.php
  Allan's Irish Fiddler collection - Irish tunes in ABC, Notation, Midi - www.oldmusicproject.com/allans.html
  Folk Tune Finder - FolkTuneFinder.com is a web-wide search engine that catalogues tens of thousands of tunes from across the web. You find tunes by title or a piece of the melody. Search for tunes transcribed in the ABC format - www.folktunefinder.com/
  Traditional Tune Archive - The Semantic Index of North American, British and Irish traditional instrumental music with annotation, formerly known as The Fiddler's Companion. Presents notation, history and ABC code for an amazing collection of tunes! - www.tunearch.org/wiki/TTA
 General
  Bite Your Own Elbow - An amazing collection of musical information including Fiddle Resources, tune collections, banjo jokes, much more.... - www.biteyourownelbow.com/
  HamieNET.com - is a free resource dedicated to educate the world with music. We feature some unique and revolutional functions for use in the field of music. Examples include Melody Search: searches through all MIDI (more than 220,000 tracks, 10 millions note events) for a particular melodic sequence, Lyrics Content Search: searches the text of the lyrics. Both of these functions and many more can be found on the Advanced Search page. - www.hamienet.com/
  Musipedia - Search for a tune by name, entering the melody with a virtual piano keyboard, or by whistling into a microphone! - www.musipedia.org/
  Traditional Bluegrass music - Songbook and Tune-book with Sheet music, Lyrics, Chords & Midi - www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/bluegrass-songbook/idxv13as.htm
  Traditional Bluegrass music - A large archive of traditional, folk & old music - song-books with lyrics & chords, tune-books, sheet-music, scores, old songs, midi backing tracks, tabs, music lessons & theory, learn to play guides for various instruments, chord diagrams, scales and other music educational & academic reference materials. - www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/
 Lyrics - Search for song lyrics (and words)
  Bluegrass Lyrics - from Bluegrass Messengers - Bluegrass Lyrics Page. This site is an ongoing collection of bluegrass and bluegrass related lyrics. Right now I have finished roughing in the Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes.... - bluegrassmessengers.com/bluegrass-lyrics.aspx
  Bluegrass Lyrics - Lyrics for Traditional Bluegrass & Early Country music - www.bluegrasslyrics.com/
  Brazos River Pickers - A great group of pickers with a great songlist - Words & Chords - www.brazosriverpickers.com/Songlist.html
  Bus Songs - The largest collection of children's music on the Internet - with lyrics, videos, and music for 2,112 kid's songs and nursery rhymes. - bussongs.com/
  Folk Music Welcome to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - You can search the 35,000 track database of all the Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Folkways, Paredon, and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings that we distribute through mail order. Take a look at our magazine. - folkways.si.edu/folkways-recordings/smithsonian
  Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and America - Tunes, lyrics, and information - www.contemplator.com/intro.html
  Folk Songs - Folk Songs - American and Multicultural Folk Song Lyrics. Such as: Buffalo Gals, Erie Canal, I've Been Working On the Railroad - www.songsforteaching.com/folk/
  Freek Lyrics - words for many songs. - www.lyricsfreak.com/
  Gospel Lyrics - LYRICS TO SOME GREAT OLD SONGS. There's a lot of Bluegrass Gospel song lyrics here, but there is also a good sprinkling of some other favorites as well. - www.pine-net.com/babcocksstore/bluegrlyrics.html
  Hymns - Project Hymnbook - This free forum is a place where you can post chord and lyric sheets for the hymns, and other non-copyrighted songs you use in church. In addition, you can search for the songs you need, and download them for use in your own music projects. Presented with words and chords... - www.virtu-software.com/projecthymnbook/
  Music Potential - Lyrics for BLUEGRASS songs with chords and GUITAR TAB, MANDOLIN TAB - www.musicpotential.com/songs/song_archive.htm
  PUBLIC DOMAIN music - MIDI files, and text files of their lyrics, created by Benjamin Robert Tubb based on original sheet music sources - www.pdmusic.org
  The Bluegrass Gospel Songbook - an Old-Time Gospel Songbook. By Wayne Erbsen. Excellent collections of gospel songs in easy to read format - nativeground.com/product/old-time-gospel-songbook/
  The ToneWay Mountain Music Collection - The songs here are variously called bluegrass songs, old-time songs, mountain music songs, folk songs… all different names for what we broadly call people music. Most of the songs featured here are also available (with chords) in our songbooks. - toneway.com/songs
  Traditional Bluegrass music - Songbook and Tune-book with Sheet music, Lyrics, Chords & Midi - www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/bluegrass-songbook/idxv13as.htm
 Tablature - Find tablature for your playing pleasure...
  Tablature Links - A large collection of Websites for Banjo Tablature, Fiddle Tunes, and Related Useful Stuff... - www.wholegrain.com/misc/banjo/banjotab.htm
 Notation - Search for music with real notes!
  8notes - Welcome to 8notes - Free Sheet music, Riffs, Lessons and Tools for musicians who play - www.8notes.com/
  Allan's Irish Fiddler collection - Irish tunes in ABC, Notation, Midi - www.oldmusicproject.com/allans.html
  Free Sheet Music .NET - A collection of links to sites offering Free Sheet music - www.freesheetmusic.net
  O'Neills Music of Ireland - AIRS & SONGS, MARCHES, JIGS & DOUBLEJIGS, SLIPJIGS, REELS, LONGDANCES, HORNPIPES, O'CAROLAN'S COMPOSITIONS. Most available in Noteworthy Format, ABC Format, Sheet Music notation, and MIDI - www.oldmusicproject.com/oneils1.html
  SPUDs Tunes - A Contra dance band from Philadelphia provides Notation in ABC for Reels, Jigs, and Everything Else! - www.thursdaycontra.com/~spuds/TuneLinks.html
  Sheet music - Free Sheet Music - - www.freesheetmusic.net
  The Kitchen Musician - Downloadable tunes with notes and MIDI - www.kitchenmusician.net/pages/kmmusicbyorigin.html
  The Music Page - Here we have a collection of lead sheets and some pointers to resource materials including tunebooks, chord charts, and tutorials. - www.trefftzs.org/Jeff/Music/
  Three Rivers Dulcimer Society - Here is some of the music you’ll hear us playing. The links below will bring up a printable sheet of music with (usually) both dulcimer tablature and standard musical notation, and sometimes even some guitar chords. For some songs, both melody and harmony parts are available. - 3rdsdulcimer.wixsite.com/mysite
  Traditional Tune Archive - The Semantic Index of North American, British and Irish traditional instrumental music with annotation, formerly known as The Fiddler's Companion. Presents notation, history and ABC code for an amazing collection of tunes! - www.tunearch.org/wiki/TTA
  Vocalist - Free Sheet Music. A collection of Links to free sheet music sites - www.vocalist.org.uk/free_sheet_music_links.html
 Software - Computer software for help with listening to, working with, and composing music.
  Audacity - Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to: Record live audio, Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files, Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together, Change the speed or pitch of a recording, And more! - www.audacityteam.org/
  MP3Gain - Got a list of MP3's that you like to listen to together but they are all different volumes? This program will equalize them to the samd volume. MP3Gain analyzes and losslessly adjusts mp3 files to a specified target volume. - sourceforge.net/projects/mp3gain/

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