[LINK] Re: Bag pipe version of Waltzing Matilda

[Roger Clarke]

After years of this, you'd think you'd get hardened;  but the things that
happen on the net just never cease to amaze me.

Among the continual mail I get from people who discover my Waltzing Matilda
site (several in the last two days) was this one this morning.


>Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 07:59:58 +1000
>To: "Anders Grevby" <anders.grevby@swipnet.se>
>From: Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke@anu.edu.au>
>Subject: Re: Bag pipe version
>
>G'day Anders
>
>>    Hello Roger   I hope you can help me. I am looking for a recording of
>>Waltzing Matilda which there seems to be numerous versions of. But I need
>>a  version played on bag pipes. My father, who is an Australian, has
>>requested that  it be played at his funeral (here in Sweden) which is in
>>about 2  weeks.   I thought I had solved it through a scotish website
>>http://www.celtic-corner.com/music/rockies.htm  They had a CD called
>>"Live inthe Rockies" by the Victoria  Police Pipe Band. But they rang
>>back after a while to say it had been discontinued and  refered me to
>>amazon.co.uk. When I had a look at their site the same album had  totally
>>different tracks and Waltzing Matilda was not one of them.   Can you help
>>me??? I would much appreciate it.   All the best   Anders Grevby  
>You've got me on this one, I'm sorry.
>
>I don't know if this will help, but a MetaCrawl turned up a site in
>Denmark, which offers scripts for a program that can simulate a bagpipe:
>http://www.netby.dk/Centrum/Boulevard/mcpeter/tunes/tunes.html
>
>And the scripts include Waltzing Matilda:
>http://www.netby.net/Centrum/Boulevard/mcpeter/tunes/bmw/waltzing.bmw
>
>If in doubt, try asking:
>
>      Robert MacNeil Musicworks
>      2913 Keets Drive
>      Coquitlam, BC
>      Canada, V3C 6J2
>
>      Tel: 604-552-5674
>      Fax: 604-552-5675
>
>      E-mail: rmm@istar.ca
>
>      World Wide Web: http://home.istar.ca/~rmm/
>
>Good luck!  ...  Roger

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