How to create and store music without owning musical instruments?

Musical instruments are becoming very expensive.
Some music instruments are very expensive and are inconvenient to carry in crowded trains, buses, and planes.

We have a proverb in my mother tongue Telugu: 'tA dUra sandu lEdu, tana meDa kO DOlu'. Approximate English translation: A person has no space to squeeze himself through the crowd, but he has a big drum around his neck'. DOlu is a sweet deep sounding and resonant percussion instrument, played by the percussionist while carrying it around his neck. DOlus are very popular in South Indian traditional marriages. Large guitars too seem to have this problem of hanging around necks. Some string instruments like vINa and sitArs are difficult to carry in unreserved Railway Compartments. I myself experienced it. We need not write about the portability of fixtures like pianos.

Large musical instruments accumulate dust when not used frequently. Every musician has to do some cleaning work before he starts practising.

Some string instruments like sitar, violin need occasional wetting of fingers with a little oil dipped in cotton kept in a small box. This is to facilitate swift movement of fingers along the frets.

In South India, 'mridangam' is the principal percussion instrument (a miniature version of DOlu) in Classical Music concerts. Mridanga players often carry a round stone for hitting the wooden blocks which tighten or loosen the drum.

Most musical instruments need 'dexterity' of fingers. Learning to move fingers on the keys/holes/buttons/frets itself takes several months to practice. It is not just sufficient to move fingers fast. We have to move them in alignment with the rhythm cycle calculations. It is not just mechanical typing. We have to refine our fingers in such a way that we produce melodies and not 'tup tups'. Of course, all the physical labors and mental strains involved in playing natural musical instruments have their own rewards (and punishments?). I am not suggesting 'transcription music' as a substitute to 'natural instrumental music', but as a supplement to it.

Physically challenged persons who have shivering or weak fingers may have problems in handling musical instruments where fingering skills are important.

Another problem with natural instruments is, we cannot record our own performances unless we continuous support of input mic to record our sessions. Correction of our recordings, though possible in packages like 'audacity', it is a tedious job to identify the error points and substitute them with new bits. This work can be really exasperating where we have to correct stanzas which are used as refrains (repeated lines throughout the composition).

The traditional Euro-American notation method employing staffs, clefs and other drawing pictures are difficult to understand and practice.

Exactly, here comes the abc notation which helps us to create/compose/copy/transcribe music using a text editor and converting the txt to audio music midi files . The music midi files can further processed into wav and mp3 files. They can be added to videos and thus audio and video albums can be created.

We can edit our work any number of times in simple text editors such as notepad or Gedit, test the rhythm accuracy, convert them into midis, listen them, and recorrect them at our will till we get near-perfection results.

Recordings too are storable, but not as conveniently as abc text notations.

Mr. mulAyam Singh Yadav and AkhilEsh YAdav the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh have promised free laptops and tablet computers to students and unemployed educated youth. Mobiles too are coming with some sort of computer operting systems like androit, blue tooth etc.

Other States in India, or other countries in the world will not lag behind in distributing laptops and tablets to people. Days ahead, every human above the age three, may be operating his own computers.

People today, particularly Indians today, are using their spare time on their mobiles, laptops, pcs and tablets, to download hard porno videos and watch them even during their work. A few Honorable Members of State Legislatures in Gujarat and KarnATaka have been caught while engaged in this. Members of American Congress or Senate or the British Parliament or Russian Duma or the Japanese Diet or the Israeli Knesset may also be doing it openly or surreptiously. Ok, let them do whatever they want.

Yet, some people, in spite of every frolic, may have some spare time to create/play/listen/sing some serious sweet music, which need not be melancholic or mournful.

Exactly, at this juncture, creation of music has become very easy with the help of abc2midi and tunescript, thanks to Mr. Chris Walshaw, Mr. James Allwright, Mr. Seymore Shlien, Mr. Ben Fisher and other noble souls, particularly those belonging to Linux, Ubuntu, Timidity, Audacity, and other open source RELIGION.

Shall continue.