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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround NOW!!!! From: Acorn4 Date: 15 Jun 20 - 05:31 PM Great to meet you all and listen to a range of songs from all over. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround NOW!!!! From: Noreen Date: 15 Jun 20 - 04:33 PM Come join us! 32 people in tonight so far :) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround NOW!!!! From: Tattie Bogle Date: 15 Jun 20 - 03:05 PM All that in the video I linked to Acorn 4: it does make a big difference, especially if you are playing an instrument. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: GUEST,Dani Date: 15 Jun 20 - 02:39 PM Hi all! Can't make it today, but hope to soon : ) Will work on a New Zealand connection. Dani |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Acorn4 Date: 15 Jun 20 - 02:21 PM I'll try to come along tonight if I'm recognised (haven't done the bit signing in with an alias yet. If you're using a PC or laptop these tips might be useful. The problem with Zoom is that it was designed for conferencing not singing. It interprets long held notes or instruments as background noise and tries to cut them out. On the main screen normally at the top left (usually) there is a tab which says "turn on original sound" - make sure this is "on". Go into audio settings:- unclick "auto adjust volume" You can adjust your own and incoming voluem here. Go into "Advanced" Make sure "enable original sound" is "on". Disable both settings for background noise (persistent and the other one) leave "echo cancellation" enabled. These settings should save themselves but it pays to check each session.. Hope this helps. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Mrrzy Date: 15 Jun 20 - 02:14 PM Saved offline in case mudcat goes down YAY can hardly wait! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Tattie Bogle Date: 15 Jun 20 - 01:50 PM A couple of useful videos for anyone unfamiliar with Zoom, and how to improve it for music use: (not sure why the second one is so much longer, when there's actually less that you can do!!) 1. For PCs/Macs/laptops Zoom for PCs etc 2. For iPads/tablets/phones: Zoom for iPads/tablets/phones And one other thing: best to install Zoom on your device, which you can do any time before the meeting starts: if you do that, then all you need to do is, at the appointed time, open the Zoom software,go to "Join a Meeting" and use the meeting number and password. You don't need the long url if you do it that way: I know of several people who have failed to get in as they used the long url where they should have put the meeting number! May see you later! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Mrrzy Date: 15 Jun 20 - 10:45 AM Mwah. Also trying to save Zoom info offline in case Mudcat is down... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: MoorleyMan Date: 14 Jun 20 - 06:39 PM It was sung by Vikki (Yorkshire Yankee). It's one of her own excellent parodies. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Mrrzy Date: 12 Jun 20 - 10:37 AM Who sang the Favorite Things song? /Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=1062941&messages__Message_ID=1062941 |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: My guru always said Date: 12 Jun 20 - 04:09 AM It was wonderful to see & hear so many Catters on Monday, would love to be Zooming with you again. Thanks so much for organising it Joe, you made a great job of herding us Cats xx |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Joe Offer Date: 11 Jun 20 - 10:26 PM Hi, Kevin - I'll post the link here on Monday, half an hour before we start at 8 PM London time. If you have a camera and a microphone on your computer or iPad, you're all set. Click the link, and Zoom will set itself up. Zoom came out with an encrypted version within the last two weeks, and that should take care of most of the security problems people were worried about. Hope to see you Monday! -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 11 Jun 20 - 08:46 PM I'm not a frequent visitor these days, so I've only just seen this. Sounds great, and it's the kind of positive development I've been expecting to see happening with the lockdown that could maybe enrich our world when it's over. But I haven't a clue to how this Zoom thing works. No, I don't mean the techie stuff, I don't need to know that any more than I do for my iPad or my TV. But, how do I set about using it. I've got the app loaded on my iPad, but it's just sitting there. Someone point me where I can get up to speed, and join in. Or even just look in. As Joe said up the thread: "This was absolutely what Mudcat is supposed to be. " |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Joe Offer Date: 11 Jun 20 - 03:33 AM Just to clarify - I'm asking if somebody else might like to host a singaround on Thursday.... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Tattie Bogle Date: 10 Jun 20 - 09:07 PM Regarding the re-boot question, Joe: a few weeks back, I was both host and quiz-mistress on our weekly family quiz when my computer suddenly froze! No cursor, nothing! I had to crash shutdown and re-boot, which took ages, then get back into Zoom - another eternity, it seemed. But when I finally got back in, everyone else was still there: they had been having a great chat in my absence. So, it seems the meeting only terminates if/when you "end meeting": you can leave and come back even if you are the host. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Herga Kitty Date: 10 Jun 20 - 11:52 AM I'm usually in the virtual Herga club on Mondays and one of our local Dorset clubs on Thursdays, but it was good to put faces to names on Monday and I will try to look in to the Mudcat song sessions for a while - at least the time difference means I can join Mudcat after the England-based sessions finish, if I'm still awake enough! Kitty |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Anne Lister Date: 10 Jun 20 - 07:51 AM Just a quick note - for those there at the start on Monday and the mention of Friday 13th and the Templars - I've opened a different thread. It looks as if I'm the only one who's looked at it or contributed, so maybe my subject line isn't clear enough! I've called it "from the song circle - Friday 13th". I'll try and join in again, but my stamina wouldn't be strong enough to cope with three hours on Zoom myself. I'll happily raise a glass to those who can! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Joe Offer Date: 10 Jun 20 - 03:10 AM You betcha, Gerry. We really need to have people from Australia and New Zealand to make this gathering truly worldwide. As people come in, I assign them a number and we sing in numerical order. I'm hoping we can go twice around the group, even if the singaround lasts six hours. This week, we went around twice and lasted 4 hours, but I'll do my best to make sure everybody gets a chance to sing at least once. There are so many Mudcatters that I want to hear. There's a problem, though. Zoom is a memory hog. After about 3 hours, my computer gets a bit shaky and I really need to reboot. I had very bad service during the last hour of our session. I'm afraid to reboot, because I'm afraid I'll end the session and lose everybody. I'm wondering if I reassign the session to another host, if I can leave and reboot, and then rejoin the session. I had Noreen as cohost and she is certainly competent to handle anything (as many of you know). Could I have made her host and handed off to her while I rebooted? I noticed that she was getting a bit unstable toward the end, but I wonder if she had rebooted and come back and taken over as host, if then I could reboot and come back. Anybody know? -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 10 Jun 20 - 02:13 AM If it starts 5AM Tuesday Sydney time (Monday elsewhere, but Tuesday here), and goes on for three or four hours, does that mean if I don't get up at 5 I'll still be able to join in partway through? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Mrrzy Date: 09 Jun 20 - 06:59 PM Moved my alarm for next week to an hour earlier. Looking for something French! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Tattie Bogle Date: 09 Jun 20 - 06:07 PM It was braw! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Shogun Date: 09 Jun 20 - 09:40 AM Hi All Can Anybody send me link to zoom and some notice when it happens again? Thanks |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 09 Jun 20 - 09:27 AM I'll try to get to this. If one wanted to get really ambitious, how about a 24 hour worldwide singathon on a later date, then that can take into account time-zones. Will the session be on Zoom Business (300 participants) as Zoom pro is limited to 100. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: voyager Date: 09 Jun 20 - 09:11 AM Ditto (well done). |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: GUEST,Martin Ryan Date: 09 Jun 20 - 08:34 AM Well done! Regards |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Sarah the flute Date: 09 Jun 20 - 07:48 AM What a fantastic evening - managed to stay awake until the end but well worth it. Some great songs and unusual ones I had not heard before. It will definitely be a regular slot for me. Thanks so much for organising Joe. These Zoom sessions have been great for geting back to solo singing although I still miss my fellow band members in Morrigan. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Richard Mellish Date: 09 Jun 20 - 06:35 AM Thanks to all for organising the singaround. I chickened out after the first song of the second time around, because I've been trying to bring my waking/sleeping cycle a bit closer to the hours of daylight, though with limited success. Whichever day of the week we choose is bound to be wrong for someone. I forget how many of us were there last night, but it was enough for once round to last the best part of three hours. So Joe's idea of Mondays and Thursdays should work, with more than enough singers/musicians each time, even if a lot of us don't join in every time. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: MoorleyMan Date: 09 Jun 20 - 05:24 AM I'll echo that big-time, Joe, and thanks so much for getting it organised and so well steered. Great to meet so many fellow-Catters and share their songs. Already looking forward to next time. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM From: Joe Offer Date: 09 Jun 20 - 12:20 AM This was absolutely what Mudcat is supposed to be. I can't believe how wonderful this gathering was. Hope to see you all again next Monday. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Monday NOW!!!~!!! From: Joe Offer Date: 08 Jun 20 - 08:00 PM All over after 4 hours of singing, and it was lovely. I will keep hosting a singaround on Mondays, but I will move it to 8 PM London time. Noreen did a splendid job as co-host, by the way. Anybody want to host a second Mudcat sing on another day, maybe Thursday? -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Monday NOW!!!~!!! From: Mrrzy Date: 08 Jun 20 - 07:58 PM This was GREAT! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Monday NOW!!!~!!! From: JennieG Date: 08 Jun 20 - 07:48 PM I slept in. Missed it. 6 a.m. is a bit early on a winter morning. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Monday NOW!!!~!!! From: leeneia Date: 08 Jun 20 - 07:37 PM Twelfth Street Rag with notes such fun |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Monday NOW!!!~!!! From: leeneia Date: 08 Jun 20 - 07:31 PM I need to correct something I said at cocktail time. I said the Tiger Rag was written in Tulsa about Twelfth and Vine. No, it was the Twelfth Street Rag. In Kansas City the jazz district "museum" is at 18th and Vine. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Monday NOW!!!~!!! From: cujimmy Date: 08 Jun 20 - 07:15 PM Yes what a lovely evening, thanks Joe - Monday evenings are a good time for me if we continue these into the future. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Monday NOW!!!~!!! From: Joe Offer Date: 08 Jun 20 - 06:34 PM Weekly? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Monday NOW!!!~!!! From: Noreen Date: 08 Jun 20 - 05:36 PM I think this should be a regular event :) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Monday NOW!!!~!!! From: Waddon Pete Date: 08 Jun 20 - 05:34 PM Thanks for organising this Singaround Joe! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Monday NOW!!!~!!! From: Joe Offer Date: 08 Jun 20 - 04:48 PM 28 here now....and it's lovely! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Monday NOW!!!~!!! From: Noreen Date: 08 Jun 20 - 04:26 PM It’s live now! 25 of us in so far :) More welcome. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Monday NOW!!!~!!! From: Joe Offer Date: 08 Jun 20 - 03:06 PM REFRESH - OPEN FOR COCKTAILS AND CONVERSATION. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat worldwide singaround Monday 9 PM London From: Celtaddict Date: 08 Jun 20 - 02:27 PM I am looking forward to this! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat worldwide singaround Monday 9 PM London From: Severn Date: 08 Jun 20 - 01:22 PM I will be there, at least for awhile I also have cook up a setlist for tomorrow night's The Blues Comes Calling radio show that I will be co-hosting.(PM me for info if interested). This sounds like fun and a chance to see and hear some of you, friends, correspondents and strangers in the virtual flesh. I wouldn't miss it for all the steak in Salisbury!..... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat worldwide singaround Monday 9 PM London From: Noreen Date: 08 Jun 20 - 04:28 AM Ha ha! That was meant to be a smiley face :-) not two question marks. I am not finding fault. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat worldwide singaround Monday 9 PM London From: Noreen Date: 08 Jun 20 - 04:25 AM Great, Joe! I'll be there ?? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat online singaround Monday 9 PM London time From: Mrrzy Date: 07 Jun 20 - 11:20 PM So 3, mudcat time? Monday at 8 PM London time. That's Noon here in California, 3 PM at Mudcat Central in Pennsylvania, and 5 AM in Sydney.We'll go for about 4 hours, hopefully twice around the group. Zoom is a memory hog, and I start losing bandwidth toward the end of 4 hours. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat online singaround Monday 9 PM London time From: Tattie Bogle Date: 07 Jun 20 - 08:22 PM Will try to come in later: we have a band practice on Zoom at 8pm, but should be finished soon after 9pm. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat online singaround Monday 9 PM London time From: GUEST,Susanne (skw) Date: 07 Jun 20 - 08:14 PM This is great! I'll try to join at my local (Kiel) time of 10 PM. Not sure my camera is working, though. Would I still be allowed in, Joe? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat online singaround Monday 9 PM London time From: MoorleyMan Date: 07 Jun 20 - 07:47 PM I'd love to join, and will try to do so - but sad to say it clashes with two other sings on a Monday at 8 or 9pm UK time. Did anyone not consider a different timed start, say an earlier slot? Or perhaps a Thursday evening, when I've not been able to find anything much happening zoom-sing-wise... (except for very late or during the wee small hours UK time)... Hope to "see" you tomorrow Joe. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat online singaround Monday 9 PM London time From: open mike Date: 07 Jun 20 - 04:07 PM Yes...I admit I do not even know what day it is anymore.... I thought it was monday already! Luckily, for once I am actually early instead of late! see you toorrow! |
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