Well this post isn't about me starting the project... it's about starting the blog of the project. I've been working for a couple of years on an idea, publishing the out of print Donald MacDonald light music collection, complete with modern notation and embellishments and historical notes and research. As I've been working on this, I realize that I have no place to collect some of my thoughts and ideas about the project. In phase 1 of the project, I need to get the entire collection into a computer notation program. I've elected to do this in Lilypond. It's a flexible text based notation program that makes the entry very fast and it has more support than bagpipe music writer (BMW) as well as the typesetting have a more appealing aesthetic. It also allows me to write comments (viewable in the coding, but not in the typesetting), that remind of things that need to be fixed, or things that are incomplete in the originals. This is where I am currently. As a