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Author: Beroë Marshall
Posted: Dec 12 2005 - 03:05 AM
Subject: re: Searching for grandfather's piano warmup tune

CORRECTION:

http://homepage.mac.com/bmarshall/iMovieTheater53.html

(Needs the "l" at the end)

Author: Beroë Marshall
Posted: Dec 12 2005 - 02:59 AM
Subject: Searching for grandfather's piano warmup tune

My father is 87 years old. He has been trying to identify this song for years. It was his father's warm-up tune for the piano.

My father is a noted ornithologist, as well as an accomplished musician and harpsichord builder.

In 1992, my parents were searching for Bicknell's thrush on Mud Island off the southwest corner of Novia Scotia. Per his notes, "The nights were full of the excited toots of Leach's Petrels, flying about in the moonlight -- the first four notes of their call recalled the piano music that my father always used to warm up for playing."

My grandfather was a semi-professional baritone. He played the piano well and accompanied his college glee club. His was the class of 1913 at Harvard, indicating the time when he would have encountered this music.

I have created a Quicktime file from my father's notes, please click on the URL below. I cannot vouch for its accuracy, especially the tempo in the last four measures.

Please listen and let me know if you can identify it. This would be a great surprise and gift for my dad.

http://homepage.mac.com/bmarshall/iMovieTheater53.htm

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Add a bit of sheet music, along with a MIDI file, simply by entering note names in Lilypond syntax between the [L] and [/L] tags.
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3. copy this hash code and paste it into a forum post, enclosed in the audio tags, for example: [audio]2a40281c5001c5a7d8c9f57fcdeccfaf[/audio]

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