Archives of Tunes in BMW Format
November 28, 1998: The Piper and Drummer magazine requested that the operators of pipe music tune archives in any format remove tunes from their sites for which they did not have copyright clearance. Rather than comb through their files, locate and eliminate particular tunes (a time consuming job given the research involved to determine whether the tune is in the public domain), several of these tune archive sites decided to discontinue providing any tunes. As a result of these decisions, Robert MacNeil Musicworks has taken over the BMW tune archives from these sites. We are in the process of doing the appropriate research and will post a public domain tunes archive at this site some time in the future – date unknown. It should be noted that a tune archive for a program other than BMW (that claims 2000 tunes in their format) has several hundred copyright violations and has disregarded requests from the Piper and Drummer magazine to remove these copyright controlled tunes. We believe the following BMW tune archives to be clear of copyright violations:
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