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ABC Transcription Tools is a free, web-based, open-source tool based on abcjs for converting music in ABC format to standard notation and tablature (with optional capo offset for stringed instruments).
This converter can generate standard music notation from ABC files, show note names along with notation, and also create tablature for mandolin, bouzouki, mandola, standard guitar, DADGAD guitar, or whistle.
It can also transpose ABC up or down in semitone increments.
It can generate PDF tunebooks (Letter or A4 size) in tune-per-page or multiple-tunes-per-page formats with many options for page numbers, table of contents, tunebook index, headers and footer, and even adding a QR code at the end.
You can also use Share URLs or QR codes to open the tool with tune sets pre-loaded.
The full ABC for the tunes and tab settings are encoded in URL parameters on the share links.
I wrote this tool starting at the end of January 2023 after the popular mandolintab.net ABC converter site went down at the end of 2022 and has not come back.
I was completely reliant on that site for my lesson and session handouts and tune books, so decided to build an open-source ABC editor and PDF generator that was completely client-side.
It runs completely locally in your browser, not on someone else's server.
You can even download the source from my GitHub repo and run it locally just by opening the abctools.html file.
Now anyone will be able to create and share high-quality PDF tune handouts and tunebooks without having to rely on anyone else's website or server.
which redirects to:
http://michaeleskin.com/abctools/abctools.html
User Guide:
http://michaeleskin.com/abctools/userguide.html
Launch the tool with "The Kesh" and "The Lilting Banshee" pre-loaded:
Launch the tool with the Michael Coleman set ("The Tarbolton" - "The Longford Collector" - "The Sailor's Bonnet") pre-loaded:
Launch the tool with "Muireann's" jig (by Niall Vallely) for Anglo Concertina pre-loaded:
I have a collection of example tune set Share URL QR codes photos on Flickr that you can scan with your phone to instantly open the tune set in the tool running on your phone's browser:
The demo video shows:
Importing an ABC tune set
Notation display
Editing the ABC
Tablature options
Exporting notation to a PDF File
Generating a QR Code for sharing
Be sure to visit the "Instructions" link at the top of the tool as it has a lot of answers to common questions.
Please feel free to contact me if you have questions, bug reports, or feature requests.