Well, it's paid for and downloading (I though, what the heck, I'll get the
FLAC files) and it's chugging along.
A word of warning though. The site doesn't allow resuming downloads - not
good when you have an ISP that keeps dropping the connection :(
Still, it let's you download any failed attempts.
I'm just over half way there (not a very high download speed from there
either - around 37kbs most of the time but it does get higher on
occasions ).
In the UK, that CD only costs about the same as two MacDonald's Happy meals
(good old exchange rate)!
Thanks for the link.
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Bullis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 10:39 AM
Subject: [HG] Available from Smithsonian Folkways records: Henry Vasson
Hello, I was searching the Smithsonian Folkways web site for something
totally different, and noticed that they had a pull-down box titled
instrument. I pulled it down to hurdy gurdy, and this album came up:
http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/containerdetail.aspx?itemid=1502
The album is simply called Hurdy Gurdy music, and was recorded in 1976. It
contains twenty French pieces, and you either have Smithsonian send you a
cd, or you can get it the modern way and download it. They give you two
formats, mp3 and flac. Flac is lossless, and is only needed if you want to
burn a perfect-sounding cd with no mp3 sound loss. The mp3s will do fine
if
you want them for an mp3 player though. The pieces seem to be mostly in
the
key of C, or at least they were with the samples I picked to listen to.
Anyhow, I thought this might be a cd you'd not heard before, and figured
you'd want to check it out and add it to your collection if you like it.
Thanks a lot.
Matthew
