Atte writes: | On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Ulf wrote: | > > Any comments welcome, esp if anyone has an idea on how to legalize the site. | > | > Well, there might be a minor problem there. | | This will not go away :-) I might move it to a new secret place, | but I really need it to be online for myself. Often I'm at school, | and just before a rehersal somebody asks "could we play this song". | Although it's by no means exhaustive, there are some of the more | special songs I like to play (U.M.M.G, Asiatic Raes, The touch of | your lips and Oh! look at me now for instance) that are not in a | lotta fake books. And no, a lotta super-basic-standards are not | there - yet...
Yeah; that's pretty much my reasoning for starting my tune finder. It was pure personal self interest. I wanted a fast way to find things on all those abc sites that were out there, and I figured that a computer could do the search better than I could. I've often used it to find tunes fast when someone asks if I can play something for a particular gig. Do you know how to make "hidden" web pages? I checked, and found that home.wanadoo.nl is a unix machine running apache. On such a server, it's really easy to put things on the web so that only people who know the URL can find them. Some studies have concluded that between 40% and 50% of the web is hidden in this way, visible only to members of an inside group. If you don't know how to do it, I could explain it. | > Anyway, I might contribute with a song or two, I have a couple here too, might | > make your collection more complete. | | Great, hit me :-) What you should do is pass the word among other jazz musicians, and get them thinking about an online fake book that's available from anywhere there's a machine with a web browser. If you can get a small group of them contributing tunes, you can have a full fake book in a short time. It sounds like a worthwhile project to me. What I've found helps is a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor. I like to tell people that there's a price to using my tune finder. You are now required to type in a bunch of your favorite tunes in abc and put them on a web site. I can put them on my site for a while, until you get your own web site. This gets grins when I say it, but it works often enough. Just last week, one of the Balkan/Klezmer musicians whose tunes I have had online sent me email with the URL of his new online collection. Anyway, if you pass the word and get musicians using your site, you can probably get contributions from some of them pretty quickly. After someone has sent you a dozen tunes or so, you can suggest that they might want to make their own web site. And if the online jazz fake book is scattered across a lot of sites, the publishers will have a lot of problems shutting it down. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
