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From: Hugh Messenger
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 20:15:52 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: soundbytes upload location

OK, I've freed up enough space on the server to start loading up any
harmonica soundbytes y'all might have lying around. The space came from
deleting some old mail files to the tune of 200Mb ... most of it harp-l
bounce mail and error messages!!

I'm writing the README for the soundbyte directory right now. If it's
there by the time you get there, have a read of it.

The location is:

ftp://ha~oo.garply.com/sounds

That'll work in Netscape, dunno about anything else. If you are using a
more traditional ftp client, just go to foo.garply.com, log in as user
harp, then "cd sounds".

You'll need a password, for which you'll have to mail me privately
(hu~arply.com). OK, here's a clue - Mr Hohner's first name, with the
first letter capitalized.

In the sounds directory you will find three sub-directories: diatonic,
chromatic and other. Should be fairly self explanatory!

With each sound file, please include a .txt file of the same name with a
description of the noise (who is it, what is it, what harp, what key, etc
etc). If I get time tonight I'll put up and example or two with a .txt
file - have a look at them to see what kind of info we're looking for
here.

Once there are some sounds in there, I'll start categorizing them more
meaningfully.

PLEASE PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE keep your samples as small as possible.
Record in "telephone" quality (8k hertz, 8 bit, mono). Keep it to small
snippets, not entire riffs or tunes. The experiments I've been doing grow
to around 60 or 70Kb for a 5 or 6 second snippet, which is the kind of
size / length I'm aiming for.

If you are putting up a sample from a copyrighted recording, make sure you
observe the standard limit for length (whatever that is - any offers?). I
don't wanna get popped for copyright infringement.

Remember that the point of this exercise is to have a library of
soundbytes illustrating technique, not a library of cool tunes. We don't
yet have the disk space for the latter.

Any problems, questions - I'll be here all night ... *groan* ...

-- hugh