I have a transcription of Clarkson's American tunes of 1805 on my website.
It contains this note, at the start where no reader could miss it:
> % Please don't redistribute this without including the complete file
> % here (e.g. it's ok to make a version without the bass for your own
> % use but add this as well if you pass it on). If the ABC standard
> % changes to make the multi-voice stuff work differently, I'll upload
> % a new version of this.
Now I discover via JC's tune finder a file of uniformly good-quality
transcriptions called longlist.txt with all those tunes in it, like this:
> X:334
> T:The Whim
> S:John Clarkson Jr., American Tunes no 1, arr. for the Piano Forte c. 1805
> N:Edinburgh Printed and Sold by J. Clarkson
> N:to be had at his House No. 63 South Bridge
> B:NLS MH.e.41
> Z:Jack Campin , Sep 2000
> Z: posted by Andrew Kuntz 2/01
[body omitted here]
All of them had been edited to cut the bass out, exactly as I asked
people NOT to do (the full versions were NOT included). Andrew never
contacted me about this before doing it. And there is a significant
change in one line of the header. My original had:
> Z:Jack Campin <www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/>, Sep 2000
That is, Andrew deliberately cut the URL of the original source to make
it difficult for his readers to find it (or the related file of early
American fife music, which would surely be of interest to almost anybody
getting the Clarkson stuff).
There was bugger-all point in this editing, as these tunes are meant for
the piano anyway - they have right-hand chords and are in keys unsuitable
for the flute or fiddle, both of which features Andrew left in.
I am not best pleased.
What the hell do you think you're doing, Andrew? What list was this
posted to and where is the archive? The file contained no indication
of where it was stored or who maintains it.
What I want you to do: post an apology to that list and replace each
of my tunes in that file with an entry like this:
> X:334
> T:The Whim
> S:John Clarkson Jr., American Tunes no 1, arr. for the Piano Forte c. 1805
> N:Obtain the complete file of these tunes from Jack
> N:Campin's site, <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/>
(with no tune body).
The same file has a great stack of compositions by Ed Reavy (posted by
someone else), far more ABC tunes than I've seen in one place by any
one in-copyright composer; were any of them done with the copyright-
holder's permission?
I have cc'ed this to Andrew, as I don't know if he reads the ABC list
or not. (Also cc'ed to Nigel Gathere, who seems to have contributed
to this file, wittingly or not, and so presumably knows what the list
is). I don't wish to get into a discussion on the other list, whatever
it might be.
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