Thanks to Sorcha

Subject: Thanks to Sorcha
From: Bearheart
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 04:02 PM

Sorcha,

I was looking at an old thread on Fanny Power and found the site you linked to there-- JC's ABC tune finder. I can barely read music and all the other on line ways of getting tunes are even more tedious. I am so grateful for this site-- I was able to print off the musical notation (PDF) for several tunes I want to work on with my new harp and now I can do that. What especially nice is that some versions have chords, some versions cite composers (info not always readily available) and you can occasionally get the tune in morethan one key or time signature. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I generally learn tunes by ear but there's always the risk that I'll miss notes or ornamentation. This way I can listen and have a visual reference...

Bekki

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 04:43 PM

Sorcha deserves thanks for many things. I'll check this website for sure!

Many thanks, Sorcha

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: Ed.
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 04:55 PM

I'd have thought that you should thank John Chambers...

No offence intended, Sorcha. You certainly do a great job in helping the search enginely challenged!

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: Helen
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 05:07 PM

Bekki,
This is an excellent online virtual session. It's probaby worth checking out.
BBC Virtual Session

A lot of people here have recommended it for learning tunes and playing along.

There is a useful thread, which is about fiddle playing, but there are some good links there that are worth looking at, too. See my personal favourite (I play lever harp, not fiddle) which is the Old Time Music MIDI Archive - 19th and 20th Century dance which is worth it just for a listen to some very fine music.

Also you may be interested in the e-mail Harplist. There are lots of wonderful people on the list and we share a lot of info, and experiences, etc, just like here at Mudcat.

For full membership with access to the yahoo harplist website, which of course is a good option, you need to go to

Harplist

You'll be walked through the sign-up.

If you just want the emails, and never plan to go to the yahoo harplist site, you can send a blank message to
[e-mail]
You will have to "reply" to a message Yahoo will send you, but you'll be signed up just that easily.

Once you are a member, there are several commands which can be activated with an email.

To switch to digest, send a blank message to [e-mail]
To unsubscribe, send a blank message to [e-mail]
To go "no mail", send a blank message to [e-mail]
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The above commands may not go into effect unless you "reply" to a message yahoo sends you.

Helen
in Australia

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 07:48 PM

Thanks to Sorcha for scores of kindnesses over the years, in any case!

A

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 08:05 PM

And for kindnesses of scores, too!

~S~

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 08:47 PM

*big grin*

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: Leadfingers
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 09:09 PM

I think Sorcha deserves a Thank You just for being Sorcha.

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 09:36 PM

Aw, shucks, she says, digging her toe in the dirt...like Ed said, all I do is find them. But, did you know that at JC's you can first open the GIF, then, scroll down, and open the MIDI, minimize the MIDI and it will play while you watch the sheet music...handy, that!

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: khandu
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 09:54 PM

Sorcha is a rare Jewel that shines in multi-faceted ways. Thiank you, Bekki, for reminding us!

Ken

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 11:44 PM

Thanks, but it's OK, you can stop now...

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: Bearheart
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 12:52 PM

I DID thank John Chambers, more than once--- he is very quick to answer emails and help me find tunes (especially when I know the Englishized name and not the Gaelic!!!) :)

Many thanks to Helen for the info on harplist-- and to Sorcha for fine tuning my ability to use the tunefinder site, I will try that, thanks for the tip. I'm more of a musician that a computer geek and need all the help with it I can get.

Love you guys!!!

Bekki

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 08:20 PM

Those of us who were lucky enough to get copies of Bronson's "The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads," will never forget her efforts; if not one of the labors of Hercules, close enough!
(now interleaved in a huge binder with material from other "Singing" sources).

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: jimmyt
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 09:54 PM

Thanks , Sorcha, for being so darn wonderful !

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: Miken
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 10:04 PM

Well Scorcha, I dunno about the "rare jewel" part, but you are certainly a " diamond in the rough" !!!! I mean It!
Mike

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: Amos
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 10:33 PM

She has diamonds in her ruff? And you learned this how????


A

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Jan 04 - 10:43 PM

Rough??? LOL! I thought I was just fine...and, all ya'll are embarsssing me, but I would be less than human if I didn't admit I like being appreciated.....so, thanks, and let's let it go...

Oh, and, 'ruff'....Corgis have 'ruffs'.....getting a new one in a few weeks.....

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 06 Jan 04 - 01:33 AM

And thanks for the half-sandwich at Estes Park last September!

Seamus

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: Helen
Date: 06 Jan 04 - 02:38 AM

Nah, this is too much fun. Let's all keep embarrassing her.

Helen

Subject: RE: Thanks to Sorcha
From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 06 Jan 04 - 03:19 AM

Hear hear.