I have been contacted by the copyright holders for some of the tunes in the music archive and asked to remove a number of tunes. While I may have opinions about that, legally I am compelled to do as they wish. Hence, the archive is a little smaller now.

My new site has been on-line for a while now, and I am pretty happy with how it works. Drupal has been a great experience so far. I have recently put another site online (The Pipe Band Association of Scandinavia) where I have done some more customizations, e.g. a custom theme (very simple, but still) and a custom content module. Check it out!

I have now rebuilt all the pipe music in the archive. There are two reasons for this: To have all the music built with the same version of Lilypond, and to recreate all the thumbnail images to give them a somewhat bigger size better suited to the new web layout.

You can see the result of all this in the sheet music archive. Enjoy!

There! The bagpipe sheet music archive has been brought back to life. It was actually easier than I thought to port it to a Drupal module. I might do a write-up on how it works later. But for now, go here for all your music pleasures.

Perhaps it is time to write a little about how I've configured this site. And to add a W00t!11one Drupal is great! Here we go:

Theme

• Pushbutton, slightly modified header display and a few CSS changes. I looked, but couldn't find any other nice, clean, and configurable themes. I will probably customize it more as time passes.

Modules

• Sheetmusic for the sheet music archive. I coded that one myself - how about that?
• Disknode for the downloads section. I also made my own content node type for this (a clone of Story, like the example in the manual).
• Image and Image_pub for the gallery. Also applied the patch from drupal.org/node/59962 to get a better sort order in the galleries.
• Textile as primary input method. It makes it so easy to include images and links without messing with cumbersome HTML tags.
• Views of course. Brilliantly flexible and easy to use as well. I use it for the Download section and the Archive block among others.

And of course I also use many of the standard modules as you can see.

OK, ToDoList users, I've created a new download section just for you. Seriously, I noticed that I got quite a few referrers from abstractspoon, so obviously someone must still be intersted in this stuff, even though I haven't updated it in a long while. So, enjoy!

Well folks, here it is; my all new, brilliantly shining web site!

Yes I know, I didn't keep the old site up to date. Posts were scarce and functionality was lacking. I have now reimplemented everything on the site using the very exellent CMS Drupal. I have also dumped Menalto Gallery and am instead using plain Drupal functionality for my image gallery. This means that some functions from the old site are lost, e.g. the slide show, but who cares, nobody looks at this stuff anyways, right?

Another thing to note: All registered users from my old site have been removed. At the moment the only function that requires registration is posting comments, but there may be more in the future. If you want to take full advantage of the site, you should register again. Come on, it is easy!

Weee! My goal of 100 tunes in the sheet music archive has been achieved! And these are good tunes too, mind you. Now, I will take a break from this and leave the adding to the other band members (nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean?)

OK, the sheet music archive is coming along nicely. Today I took a big proofreading pass of all the tunes. Now the settings should be (mostly) correct. I have also included information on how to get started writing bagpipe music with Lilypond on the sheet music page.

I haven't grown tired of this yet, so expect more tunes to be added. I intend to have 100 tunes added within 2 weeks.

Svenax and Mats, P/M of the Murray Pipes & Drums of Gothenburg, have for many years had a project going to get all of our excellent music settings into the computer and have them available as downloadable files. We used to do this using BagpipeTeX, a set of macros and definitions on top of MusicTeX.

Recently, however, I have for many reasons started to convert the music to Lilypond instead. It produces better ouput, is better maintained, and is much easer to use. As a consequence, I have made the tunes available from my Sheet Music archive. Feel free to take a look.

As I am on vacation for a few weeks and finally have some time to devot to this, I intend to update the tunes fairly often. Expect at least a few new tunes to appear every day in the near future.