A VERY Long shot, but i'm gonna ask anyway...

[Matrix]

Does anyone fancy doing me a MASSIVE favour ?

*NB: This is NOT computer related n any way, but IS about as musicly retro as you can probably get... read on adventurer, your quest awaits.





I have the sheet music (very rough scan) and the lyrics to a song much loved by my mum in her youth, but apparently only availble on a wax cylinder - and only then if you have the ability to play it.

The song is called "dont go down in the mine dad", it's supposed to be sung by a male child, and in a welsh accent. This tune is from 1910 FYI too, so there's no reference material to help. That said, there's 4 pages of google data on it, so I dare say whatever you produce, would be marketable in some form as there seems to be some interest.

The only thing I can offer to assist, is a rather crap midi file.



A challenge to be sure, anyone up for it ? - i'm not holding out much hope on this, but I know we have some sterling quality musicians here.

The aim of all this, is to be a xmas present for mum.. any help appreciated, thx in advance.

[Analog-X64]

Check out this Page. It has the Lyrics and a Scan of the sheetmusic.

http://www.olimu.com/Photographs/Family ... tMusic.htm


Real Audio Clip of the song & Lyrics here.

http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/3448/dream.html

There is a lot of information on this song on the internet more than 4 pages.

I'm off to work soon unfortunately but I'm sure one of you can find an MP3 Recording of it somewhere.

[fac]

The lyrics for the song is here:

http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtra ... ERCHD.html

and the song in mp3 and wav is here:

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/searc ... rtOrder=ia

[Matrix]

OMG, you found it !!

I was using "Don't go down the mine Dad", not "Don't go down the mine, Dad", but I tried all the various extensions n stuff, no wonder though really, crazy filename.. - amazing job dude, truely !! Thank you SO much I expected someone would cover it, but I never expected to be downloading a recording of the original taken from the wax cyliner !!

Fantastic, knew I could count on you guys never a better set-a lads online - Thanks again, mum will be proper chuffed with this

[Tonka]

YAY - I love a happy ending!

[Boz]

I've just been going through the Cylinder Preservation Project - it's actually pretty incredible stuff on there!

[Analog-X64]

See I told you, there would be someone here who could find a recording for you.

Hmmm I'm going to have to go through the Cylinder collection and see what interesting recordings I can find. Who knows maybe you can find that rare Sample that could work on a track.

Some of the recordings can be cleaned up with modern de-hessing / pop filters.

And I like the fact that 24-Bit Wav file is available.

And its fascinating listening to an actual recording that was done in 1913, almost 100 years ago.

PS: This reminds me of that "TechTV" accident which I'm sure everyone has seen. There was this old guy holding a Cylinder which he said was the only copy/version of that song that was available, he was so nervous that he crushed the thing into pieces live on TV!!.

PPS: What is spooky about this topic is, it was just on the news yesterday that there was a MINE accident in POLAND and 24 Miners died in the accident.

[Romeo Knight]

What is spooky about this topic is, it was just on the news yesterday that there was a MINE accident in POLAND and 24 Miners died in the accident.

This is the kind of coincidence that happens everyday a thousend times somewhere in the world. With more than 6 billion human beings there is quite a chance of someone searching for a "Mine-song" on the day a mine accident happens.

EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPUtTGAGaOk

[Analog-X64]

Yeah that was the clip I was talking about. hehehe...he went like..


"OH..FFF...SH*T" hehehe.