tunepal.org is a query-by-playing search engine for traditional Irish dance tunes developed by School of Computing lecturer Dr Bryan Duggan in collaboration with the Audio Research Group. For musicians who have ever wondered about the name of a tune, they can simply play a phrase from the tune into the search engine, and
it will search for a match within its database. The search engine, which has a database 11,555 traditional tunes, was developed out of research carried out towards Bryan's recently completed PhD on "Machine Annotation of Traditional Irish Dance Tunes".
Hosted by the School of Computing, the website has received extremely favourable reaction from the traditional music community as evidenced by this discussion from thesession.org - a popular forum for traditional musicians. One musician noted that he “tried several more well-known tunes, with good results. It’s
very forgiving of minor mistakes, but gets confused if you swing the
rhythm too much”. Another remarked that tunepal.org worked well with
both obscure and well-known tunes.
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Posted by: Bryan Duggan