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BRITISH LIBRARY SOUND ARCHIVE NOW ONLINE 4/10/09


Kautilya

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try this one - I searched for concertina but ref says piano accordeon so trust someone knows the difference!

 

http://sounds.bl.uk/View.aspx?item=025M-C0...04XX-1200V0.xml

 

or try yr own search which should work from same page. B)

 

ACTUALLY - better to start a fresh search at

 

http://sounds.bl.uk/

 

or u get trapped into a deadend unless u are becoming a student again (to get access from an institution of higher education etc) so no sounds available to the common man and certainly not gentlemen :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: ....

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You have to go to

http://sounds.bl.uk/ but make sure you click the 'Restrict search to recordings everyone can play' option when you search. That way you get ones that you can listen to.

 

Yup -poor old BL, still valiantly struggling with legacy computers and squeezer friendly front-ends....

 

But could it be a nice long-term home for the ICA music archive... one wonders? Don't us know somebody at t'BL?

:unsure:

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You have to go to

http://sounds.bl.uk/ but make sure you click the 'Restrict search to recordings everyone can play' option when you search. That way you get ones that you can listen to.

 

Yup -poor old BL, still valiantly struggling with legacy computers and squeezer friendly front-ends....

 

But could it be a nice long-term home for the ICA music archive... one wonders? Don't us know somebody at t'BL?

:unsure:

 

All the content on sounds.bl.uk is available if you are accessing it from a registered Higher/Further Education site. The restriction to other users is because of copyright - not steam-powered computers!

 

The available content includes all of - Traditional music in England, Circa 20,717 field recordings of traditional music including popular ballads, children's skipping songs, customs, music hall, soldiers' songs, folk tales and interviews.

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You have to go to

http://sounds.bl.uk/ but make sure you click the 'Restrict search to recordings everyone can play' option when you search. That way you get ones that you can listen to.

 

Yup -poor old BL, still valiantly struggling with legacy computers and squeezer friendly front-ends....

 

But could it be a nice long-term home for the ICA music archive... one wonders? Don't us know somebody at t'BL?

:unsure:

 

All the content on sounds.bl.uk is available if you are accessing it from a registered Higher/Further Education site. The restriction to other users is because of copyright - not steam-powered computers!

 

The available content includes all of - Traditional music in England, Circa 20,717 field recordings of traditional music including popular ballads, children's skipping songs, customs, music hall, soldiers' songs, folk tales and interviews.

 

Yes, tks for that :) I was put off more by the layout, which threw me...

 

Main page - the restricted (if your eyes are attracted to read it and mine are trained not to**) access message is first with search box underneath, and the general public access message is out to the right ("second option" for my brain scan). Might be better t'other way round......the masses first and elite second.

Then:

Do a search for concertina (I dont tick boxes as my brain says I have agreed to something and will get a loadof spam....!)

 

Up they come, I choose Alexander's Ragtime and bingo, up comes the toon play box

 

But I decide I dont want that, so let me search again and I think how helpful a box to the right and I automatically go to that 'new' search box on the right -- type in Tsar's Ragtime, press search and then get told u are not a student......................

 

thank goodness we only design websites for the day job....

 

That we are even giving tips to each other on how to use the thing shows it aint been thought through with illterate/WWW (webweakwally) punters like me in mind! Still, it must be doing wonders for my finger/brain/button layout patterns as i try to speed up my Rach II effort on my Anglo :ph34r: :rolleyes: :D

** don't even ask about subsconscious blanking out of street and other ads... there's a whole marketing theory out there to prevent it...

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