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Hello Tom - 

TW> Have you ever made up a CD of the stuff you have on the
TW> Streaming WMA/MP3 page for anyone . 

Only for my children. I make tapes for my mother who does not
own a CD player. The first time she heard my music she cried.
It had been over 30 years since I had done anything with my
'music'. I was 1st chair coronet in school when I was younger.
I changed a two pianos for four hands into a full blown
orchestral version of "Ave Maria", a song my father could sing
much better than most people I heard try to. :-) 

TW> I would be interested on all of what is on that page. 

I'm begining to be more organized lately now that I can burn
CDs on my machine I can keep the 'working files' together in
one place. It will take me awhile to find all of the original
WAV files but consider it a done-deed as soon as I can
accomplish this I will send them to you. I can only fit 15-19
on one CD as CD audio tracks. :-) 

TW> While I am not into everything there as I find your
TW> Remditions interesting. 

Thank you. I try to put the 'life' back into the music the way
I remember it being played live in clubs I went to in my youth.
Hearing 'The Stone Ponies', 'Seagal Schwall', 'The Paul
Butterfield Blues Band', and others live in a small club (not
an auditorium) is much different than even the very best stereo
equipment can produce. For one thing, they all really enjoyed
playing the music and seemed to be having a great time
performing. No sad faced musicians. It is this 'joy' of the
music I try to put back into the sound. Musicians having a good
time. :-) 

TW> The Dueling Banjos and the Maple Leaf Rag are particualrly
TW> facinating to me. 

I couldn't find an actual dueling _banjos_. Everything was the
'Deliverance' version with one guitar and one banjo. I
remembered seeing two banjos play this on TV as a child and
wanted to hear two banjos. I finally had to make my own MIDI
file from scratch and just did the tune from memory with no
sheet music to follow. When it was what I remembered hearing I
stopped. :-) 

Everyone likes "Dueling Banjos" and they play it 6:1 over all
the other music there and have since the page first went public
(it was there for my children originally). I am amazed at the
response. I can only guess there are many others who think when
banjos 'duel' it should be banjos and not a guitar and a banjo?
(Rawhide has strong banjo accompaniment to it as well). 

Maple Leaf Rag was my response to people who did not understand
why I was referring to it as 'my music' and had no idea what
resequencing was all about. It _is_ the arrangement but also
the _conductor_ in that I choose how the arrangement is
performed in ways an arranger of music would not have access to
the actual performance. 

Again, I was surprised to find that many people enjoy Maple
Leaf Rag as a piece of music and not a 'demo' of what
resquencing is. I like it myself and that is a credit to the
music itself? Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag' was chosen to be
preserved as one of our national treasures recently along with
the Abbott and Costello "Who's on First" comedy routine which
is also at my other website as a sound file. I seem to be
making 'good' choices now and then. 

It will take some time but I will get CD audio to you ASAP. If
you like the sound streaming you will really enjoy the full
sound of CD audio in stereo. :-) 

btw: I have been struggling to get through to my children for
many years now that "Grease" was NOT the music 'greasers'
actually liked at the time.  I finally put our 'tribal' music
online for my children to hear - "Land of a Thousand Dances"
a bit over-done as it would have sounded in a small club just
before they closed and kicked everyone out. Turn up the volume
until it is annoyingly loud and it takes me back about 35 years
or so and I am young again. ;-)

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