Is this cool or what? I have for a long time been interested in the historic revival of bagpipe music, and when checking in to Julian Goodacre’s website about a month ago, I saw that one of his replica sets was available for immediate sale. Normally there’s a two years waiting period. Said and done, I announced my interest and a little while ago I made a trip to Scotland to check them out and maybe make a purchase. After playing a few hours and pondering a bit, I decided to buy. So, now I am a member of the elect club of heretics who tries to perform on an instrument which is not a set of modern great highland bagpipes.

Hallelujah! After several years of futile searching I have finally found the correct tweak to make gracenotes non-stretchable in Lilypond. Yesss!!

To celebrate this great discovery, I have regenerated all of the tunes in the Sheet music section of the site. Because of the new and improved spacing this gets me, I have also been able to reinsert a bunch of line breaks that were removed previously to make the layout suck less. Now it doesn’t suck at all!