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Thread #3168   Message #15699
Posted By: Alan of Australia
04-Nov-97 - 01:19 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Hippopotamus Song (Flanders & Swann) -MUD
Subject: Tune Add: THE HIPPOPOTAMUS SONG (Flanders & Swann)
The MID2txt program does a pretty simple minded conversion to ABC and is sensitive to small timing errors (I'm working on this). I copied Alison's red text and converted back to MIDI and quantised. Here is the ABC psrt of the result:

ABC format:

X:1
T:The Hippopotamus Song
M:3/4
Q:1/4=100
K:G
D2|G2G2G2|GDB,2G,2|A,2B,2C2|B,4B,A,|G,2G2G2|
F2G2E2|D6|-D4D2|G2G2G2|GDB,2G,2|A,2B,2C2|
B,4BA|G2F2E2|A2F2E2|D6|-D4E2|A2A2A2|E2E2E2|
A2A2A2|E4A2|c2B2A2|A2B2^G2|A6|-A4D2|E2F2G2|
F2D2D2|E2F2G2|F2D2D2|c2B2A2|G2F2E2|F2G2F2|
E2D2F2|G6|D6|C2B,2A,2|D6|G2F2G2|E2A2G2|F2E2F2|
D4D2|BB3A2|GD5|c2c2B2|AE3D2|E2F2G2|D2B,2G,2|
A,6|-A,2B,2A,2|G,6|-G,4||

Cheers,
Alan