BruceO's Fantastic Website†

Subject: BruceO's Fantastic Website
From: NightWing
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 05:45 PM

BruceO, a GUEST who posted to the thread on "Soldier's Joy", gave the URL of his website and it's absolutely PACKED with good stuff! Lots of old tunes, some theory, and links to MORE old tunes.

Roots of Folk: Old English, Scots, and Irish Songs and Tunes

The one thing *I* jumped at was his "Chord Transposition Slide Rule for 12 Tone Equal Temperament Scale". I was just trying to come up with something similar last night and here he's got the whole thing all put together for me.

Check it out!

Bruce, become a member and hang around! (Assuming you're not already *G*)

Question for Bruce or anyone else who knows a little theory: On your little chord slide rule, a major chord would be 1, 3, 5 and a minor would be 1, 3b, 5. Is that correct? (I know how to make them on the guitar; I just don't know what actual NOTES I'm playing.)

BB,
NightWing

Subject: RE: BruceO's Fantastic Website
From: Bert
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 06:11 PM

Bruce has been hanging around here for quite a time and is a much loved and respected Mudcatter. He's hung in there with us, despite all our silliness and BS.

And you're right, it's a great site.

Bert.

Subject: RE: BruceO's Fantastic Website
From: Snuffy
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 06:16 PM

But the pages are huge - when the web's as slow as it is tonight, I'd keep getting timeouts if I tried to load it. So I've now managed to load most of it at fast times and I keep a copy on my hard disk for constant reference. A wonderful resource for early material - you don't rtealise how old some of these songs are.

Wassail! V

Subject: RE: BruceO's Fantastic Website
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 06:37 PM

I don't want to break up the broadside ballad index, because one often wants to examine a cross-reference, and with that in a differrent file it's awkward. The Scarce Songs 1 file should probably be broken up, but how to do it? I've got things started on some subject as English, Scots, or Irish, but often subjects cross the lines here, and I don't want to break a subject. The "Ay, Waukin, O" subject would then have to be broken into Scots, English, Irish, and American files. Not good at all in my opinion. Any suggestions?

Subject: RE: BruceO's Fantastic Website
From: NightWing
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 06:39 PM

Oops! *blush*

Quite evident that *I*ve only been around a short time. He had GUEST before his name so presumably he must've been posting from work or something.

Ah well. *L*

BB,
NightWing

Subject: RE: BruceO's Fantastic Website
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 07:01 PM

No, I'm a non-joiner. [I used to belong to a lot of things, but that left me no time to do the research necessary for things like my website, so I quit everything, except FSGW. Unfortunately, I'm on some newsgroups on the web and I've been answering so many queries and commenting on so many things, and answering e-mail, that I'm just getting back to what I had planned last Sunday to start and finish last Monday.]

Subject: RE: BruceO's Fantastic Website
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 07:02 PM

I've suggested to Bruce from time to time that he cut the size of his pages to speed loading. Now I'm wondering - maybe I'm best off to just download his pages to my computer, so I can access them without having to download each time. How often do you update things, Bruce? Would I miss much if I downloaded every 3 months or so?
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BruceO's Fantastic Website
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 07:34 PM

Scarce Songs and the broadside ballad index are the ones most often updated (more typo and other corrections than additions) I try to keep revision date at the top of the files so you can see if there's anything new since the version you last looked at, but there's enough involved in checking out how the texts in Scarce Songs look and whether I've gotten the links from the index right, that I've heaved a sigh of relief at that point, and then forgotten to change the revision date.

Every 3 month is probably too often as far as anything really new is concerned, but I try to be as accurate as possible on any reference data, so corrections to that I do immediately, and for the broadside ballad index there have been as many as two updates in one day.

Subject: RE: BruceO's Fantastic Website
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 08:29 PM

Thanks, Bruce. I also thought of another possibility - there's a service called Mindit that will monitor pages I select and send me a notice when the page is updated. I refer to Bruce's site enough that I think I should keep it on my computer. I haven't done that because I dcidn't know how to track updates.
You do great work, Bruce. Sorry I only had five minutes to talk with you at the Getaway. I looked for you later, but you seemed to have disappeared.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BruceO's Fantastic Website
From: Jeri
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 09:39 PM

Joe, if you have MSIE, you can add the pages for off line reading, then click Tools and Synchronize to update them, or set it to automatically update them. But you probably knew that.

Subject: RE: BruceO's Fantastic Website
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 09:47 PM

Well, Jeri, I guess I did know that, but I was too lazy to read the instructions. Guess I'd better try that. You're going to make an honest scholar out of me yet, aren't you?
Is it OK if I do it after my nap?
-Joe, retired-

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Oh, all right, Jeri. You shamed me into it. I'm making them available offline.

Subject: RE: BruceO's Fantastic Website
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 09:53 PM

Sorry Joe, I had a commitment early Sunday morning that I couldn't get out of, and had to leave the FSGW Getawy at the intermission of Saturday night's concert. I missed several people that I had wanted to talk to.

Subject: RE: BruceO's Fantastic Website
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 10:33 PM

I am normally regarded as being computer literate butI do have trouble with this site.I simply can not work out the index system.

Jon