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Thread #3210   Message #15739
Posted By: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca
04-Nov-97 - 07:08 PM
Thread Name: Stan Rogers MIDI files: Anyone have 'em?
Subject: RE: Stan Rogers MIDI files: Anyone have 'em?
Well, if you are going to slag people the least you can do is put down your name and e-mail address.

BTW, midi is welcome here. They are always after midi to accompany lyrics in the database, and I imagine Stan Rogers midis would be particularly welcome.

I couldn't find any Stan Rogers midi's, and I don't have a sequencer, whatever that is, but you can find the chords for some of his songs at http://www.summerfolk.org/chords/ I assume that if you can learn from a midi you can figure the songs out from the chording.

You have to figure out what the file names are but Scarborough Settler's Lament (one of my favourite Canadian folk songs) and several others are in there.

There is also a Stan Rogers songbook available, details of which you can find at http://www.bpm.on.ca if it isn't in your local bookstore. It doesn't have songs off of From Fresh Water or For The Family, it seems. They also have a videotape of Stan in concert, which almost make me regret giving my TV away.

BTW again, I read in today's Edupage that someone has come up with software (and presumably hardware) which will let you use your PC to record your old LP's, tapes, and even eight-tracks onto a writable CD. It can even reduce record pops and some but not all tape hiss. The prospect of hitching an eight-track player up to my PC entices me greatly --- you can buy whole boxes of those things at yard sales for five bucks. (I knew I kept my old turntable and eight-track deck for a good reason.) I have loads of stuff that isn't out on CD and never will be.