Bagpipe Player 1.02

Free A music engraving and playing tool for the Great Highland Bagpipe
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Bagpipe Player is a music engraving and playing software program for the Great Highland Bagpipe.
Main features:
-Supports BMW Gold and BMW DOS file format. The old BMW DOSTM files are converted to the new format as they are opened.
-Bagpipe Player has everything Bagpipe Reader has but with playing to MIDI and PC Speaker capabilities.
-Bagpipe Player is also able to save the tune to MIDI file format.
-Prints any type of Great Highland Bagpipe light music and piobaireachd (including abbreviations) on a Windows compatible printer.
-Can include any of the following text items with the music: tune title, tune type, composer/arranger, footer (for page numbers), in-line text, text at a fixed location, and comments.
-Prints in portrait or landscape on any paper size supported by a Windows printer driver.
-Top, bottom, left and right margin settings.
-Allows each text item to be formatted with font, font style, font size, colour, underline, strikeout, and alignment (left, right, centred or absolute location).
-Scales music horizontally and/or vertically on the page.
-Allows music to be printed on multiple pages or fit to one page.
-Bars can be vertically aligned.
-Aspect ratio and size of music symbols and symbol spacings can be adjusted.
-Multiple tunes in a file can be printed on one page or across multiple pages.
-Embellishment, grace notes, and strikes distance between melody note adjusted.
-Add per-note spacing with the “space” symbol.
-Staff height can be specified in absolute height (thousandths of an inch) or allow Bagpipe Reader to fit the tune according to page setup settings.
-Split screen with music codes in bottom window and displayed music in the top window. Bar separating the windows can be adjusted vertically.
-Zoom level on music window can be adjusted (10-900%). Allows any scale entry up to 900%.
-Supports Multiple Document Interface (i.e. can open several tunes at same time)
-Icons for new tune, open existing tune, save tune in current window, print music, preview music, refresh music.

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Gibby
It's a pity that the program's .pdf file of instructions has vanished from the Net (http://bagpipe.ddg-hansa.com/Bagpipe_Reader.pdf). It's often useful useful to refer to for fine points. I bought the program 20 years ago, though, and saved the manual to disk.

MuseScore (free) software reads .bww files, but I find it needs a bit of work before the scores look good.

I bought CelticPipes as it does an excellent job of translating across the formats of .bww, .abc and .pio.

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Melissa
Is there a chromebook compatible version out there?

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Gareth
Melissa, I have a thing called Droidpiper which plays the format.

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Paul
Is there a way to disable the drones so just the chanter is sounded? I know I can turn down the volume of the drones but I need to do that for each tune I'm trying to play, I can't seem to find a way to just turn them off and have them stay off each time I start the player.

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