Jack Campin wrote:
>
> 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:
...
>
> Now I discover via JC's tune finder a file of uniformly good-quality
> transcriptions called longlist.txt with all those tunes in it
...
>
> What the hell do you think you're doing, Andrew? What list was this
> posted to and where is the archive?
This looks really bad, but I don't think Andrew is the main offender
here. The file you refer to is an archive of tunes posted at the
Fiddle-L list. So it's probably some unknown member of that list who's
to blame.
Maintaining such an archive is rather difficult sometimes. The abcusers
tune archive at
http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/abcusers/index.tpl
follows a slightly different policy. I try to screen out any copyright
protected music, and I always try to contact the transcriber if (s)he
didn't post it him/herself. Even so I can't be absolutely sure I haven't
messed it up now and then.
Frank Nordberg
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