http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/ Traditional Song Forum Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:52:41 GMT Stephen Miller http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1536 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1536 Political Broadside Ballads of Seventeenth-Century England: A Critical Bibliography Angela J McShane Hb: c.400pp: June 2010 978 1 84893 014 8: 234x156mm: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:52:34 GMT Stephen Miller http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1535 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1535 Stephen Johnson presents an elegiac portrait of Vaughan Williams the man and composer. Travelling across England - the country he so loved - to see the places Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:43:49 GMT Stephen Rowley http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1534 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1534 Take 6 Concert Saturday 27 June, 3-5pm Cecil Sharp House Over the past 18 months the English Folk Dance and Song Society has undertaken a mammoth project to Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:46:09 GMT Dave Eyre http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1533 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1533 I haven't a direct answer to your question. However I wonder if it is worth getting in touch with Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:36:17 GMT Steve Roud http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1532 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1532 In 1955, Peter Kennedy recorded a song called 'The Brig Columbus' from Dorothy Fourbister, on Flotta, Orkney. She had learnt the song from her father (no date Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:16:09 GMT Ben Schwartz http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1531 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1531 Thanks for the information. These are really well done. Thanks again, Ben Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:01:19 GMT Derek Schofield http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1530 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1530 There’s a feature on these in the latest English Dance & Song magazine ...... Dear all, A whole load of newly-produced songbooks is appearing on line. My Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:54:44 GMT Simon Furey http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1529 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1529 Dear all, A whole load of newly-produced songbooks is appearing on line. My particular interest (because I live there when not in Spain) is the one from Kent. Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:17:53 GMT Simon Furey http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1528 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1528 Thanks Paul. Perhaps I should have said "I can't find the type (or equivalent) of what I used to use". I'm certainly not into *that* kind of price. Still, what Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:00:03 GMT Paul Stamler http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1527 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1527 ... If you google: ortofon cartridge uk a whole list of suppliers will pop up. A lot of these are for Ortofon's DJ cartridges, which are *not* good for serious Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:35:49 GMT Simon Furey http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1526 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1526 ... And don't buy their croquet mallets either. A decent mallet costs a fair amount of dosh and should be got from a specialist. Cheers Simon (aka croquetmusic Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:53:11 GMT Simon Furey http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1525 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1525 I endorse everything that Paul says. I am in the process of transcribing my collection and my old but trusty Pioneer deck with a Goldring cartridge feeding Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:55:21 GMT john adams http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1524 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1524 I'm in agreement with Paul on this. The effort to transfer recordings is significant and you might as well make it count from the start. I have a Leak Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:49:39 GMT Paul Stamler http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1523 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1523 ... This is going to come off as ineffable snobbery but...that turntable is rubbish. At the very least it will give you a remarkably low-fidelity transcription Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:52:31 GMT Lewis Jones http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1522 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradsong/message/1522 Dear Tradsongers, Further to my post on digitising vinyl records some time ago, Aldi have an .mp3 turntable for GBP49.99 as one of their special offers on