Never Miss a Tune at a Session!

Ok, so you're sitting in the cobblestone on a Sunday afternoon as the endless stream of traditional musicians play away in the corner when suddenly you hear that tune! it's eh... what do you call it?

That's when tunepal comes in. A program that recognises over 13,000 different traditional tunes. All you have to do is let it listen to what's being played and it will tell you what it is. It works with multiple instruments, though the website states that it will work best with "instruments such as the tin-whistle, flute, concertina, accordian, pipes, fiddle."

The program is the brainchild of Dr. Bryan Duggan (Phd), who originally came up with the idea twenty years ago while scanning traditional music notes into a computer archive. Eventually the computer technology caught up and now tunepal is available on android and apple phones. Indeed according to the tunepal blog, it's in the top 25 highest grossing apps on iTunes.

Here's a more detailed article from the Irish Times.

You can buy a book about how Dr. Duggan managed to do it Here

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