G'day and thanks for the various comments, Bob. I now have a working MIDI of "Carol of the Birds" (melody line only, made from the miditext at the "Carol of the Birds" thread — turns out it was only the miditext at the Australian Christmas Carols thread that was defective, i.e. the one in this thread). When I open the defective MIDI in NoteWorthy Composer I find that the tune is intact up through "Faint in the..."; followed by one cacophonously dissonant chord. The reason it's inaudible and lasts less than a second is that the tempo is given as "909090" instead of what I presume ought to be "100" or maybe "90". Obviously anything with a crotchet equal to 909,090 is going to be faster than sound.

I would be very grateful if you'd email me the PDF (lilandbr@scn.org).

Haruo (= the quondam Liland)