There is also some music and other useful info and tools on Chris Allen's site
http://www.hurdygurdy.org/resources.html Graham Whyte -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Simon Wascher Sent: 10 April 2008 08:50 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HG] Music Hello, Am 09.04.2008 um 22:16 schrieb Minstrel Geoffrey: > Is most of the music copyright free, or public domain? about two thirds of the popular french repertoire is under copyright. Its composed by living persons. Some are member of SACEM and in many cases copyright issues arise from publication contracts. Also notice that US and continental European copyright is a quite different matter. > The idea would be to have a section of music, that we all coils > access in a .PDF format. there is a search engine that allows you to search for tunes by title or else and gives back ps, eps, pdf, gif, png, midi, txt or abc: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind > I thought that in my spare time (sleep? Gave that up years ago) I > could Make a central site for all of us. Also have active links on > places doe supplies, festivals, when you all tell me the when and > where, there are several sites that have been set up hoping to give central information some are (only sources in english): * general reference wiki http://drehleierwiki.wiki-site.com/ * encyclopedic information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdy-gurdy * Alden Hackmann's hurdy-gurdy page http://hurdygurdy.com/info/ * Marcello Bono's Hurdy-Gurdy Homepage http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/1045/english_version/avviso.html * a UK Hurdy-gurdy Forum http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/HurdyGurdyForum/ * the Over the Water Hurdy-Gurdy Association http://www.overthewater.org * a cottoning assistant and a documentation of the making http://www.gotschy.com/english/index.html * a hurdy gurdy mailing list archive since '06/07 http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * Mary Rasmussens ikonography for the hurdy gurdy http://www.unh.edu/music/Icon/ihgis.htm 15.-16. century, http:// www.unh.edu/music/Icon/ihgjs.htm 16. century, http://www.unh.edu/music/Icon/ighks.htm 16.-17. century * a text about buying a hurdy-gurdy? http://simonwascher.info/HGbuy.htm > Just a thought, any advice, any interest? The hurdy-gurdy wiki is a site that was set up to do most of what you want (including the possibility of bio pages and fotos), so consider to work with that. Otherwise find out what it is that cannot be done with it to learn how to make it better. The aim of the wiki is quite exactly what you describe, so If you set up something new it should be able to really replace it, and not just another site that makes the jungle grow. I think its necessary that such a site site is set up in a way that users can ad information directly themselves. The thing to go for is a wiki or other content-management that is capeable of that is. The actual wiki is not the perfect solution. If you have better resurces I'd love to join your efforts. kind regards, Simon Wascher - Vienna, Austria --- have a look at: http://hurdygurdywiki.wiki-site.com http://drehleierwiki.wiki-site.com --- my site: http://simonwascher.info
