Lilypond

I’ve been learning tin whistle online through Conor Lamb’s Tin Whistle Workshops. Conor is a member of Realta and last week he led the class through “The Fermanagh Highland”. He also accepts bitcoin on lightning for payment, which is a nice bonus. The class materials include a PDF of the sheet music. I wanted to get that into a format I could manipulate – add chords, strum patterns, and eventually record myself playing along. I fed the PDF to Claude Code (Anthropic’s AI coding assistant) and asked it to transcribe the notation into LilyPond markup. LilyPond is a text-based music engraving system – like LaTeX for sheet music. You describe music in a markup language and it produces publication-quality scores. ...