Hi Folks

You guys are right enough in saying that it's nice to have both the printed version and the multimedia version. I'm lucky enough to have both soft and hard cover editions of the printed version. Q you're right about the scanning… you should see the beating my soft-cover edition took in the process of preparing the multimedia version… it barley survived :-)

Dave… there are 517 songs total in the collection. Quite a few of the songs were collected before battery-operated tape recorders became available. The Canadian Museum of Civilization sent us about 40 hours of Peacock's field tapes which we went through. (That was a most enjoyable experience; there was quite a bit in there that didn't make it to the books.) We were able to match up 268 songs in the field tapes with the songs in the three volumes. Of course due to space constraints we couldn't use the whole song for all 268 so we decided to use the first verse (and chorus where the melody differed from the verse) and finding we still had space we also included 59 full songs, trying for at least one full song from each singer.

Q… Greenleaf and Mansfield and then maybe Maud Karpeles :-) I'd love to have them all in multimedia as well as the books. I found a copy of the Maud Karpeles "Folk Songs from Newfoundland" last December but alas I gave it to my girlfriend for a Christmas present but she says I can borrow it :-)

Iamicra… Sorry but there are no plans for a Mac version. Didn't someone tell me that newer Macs could run Windows programs? I know someone that has a Mac I should check it out for you.

Joe… glad you got the "moving the data" thing figured out and thanks for the email and complements.

Ok guys time to bring my car to the garage :-(

Cheers
Don Walsh