FIDDLE & PIPE TUNES I CREATED 40 YEARS AGO ON A RADIO SHACK "COLOR COMPUTER" USING "MUSICA" PROGRAM
17 of my COCO (Color Computer) tunes using a program called "Musica":
Some 40 years ago, while living in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, I passed
the time by inputing, note-by-note, a bunch of Celtic fiddle & bagpipe
tunes along with the accompaniment & drones to each tune.
Each tune took many many hours to input & correct once input -
generally a day or two of tinkering for each tune.
Radio Shack's "Color Computer" was pretty primitive but even so,
I could do some things on it that I cannot do on my modern PC.
Just today I ran across my long lost recording of these tunes.
Warning in advance: don't expect perfection or anything fancy,
this stuff was at the time just a source of inventive experimenting fun.
Also, tune backups etc may not be what one might expect.
List of tunes showing the video locations for each:
0:06 - The Gravel Walk - reel
1:43 - Shenandoah Falls - old time American tune
3:27 - A bagpipe tune that I used to play but
have forgotten the name of
6:34 - Troublemakers Aplenty - 9/8 jig my brother
and I wrote long ago in Socorro, New Mexico
7:34 - Another bagpipe tune I forgot the name of
9:11 - The Munster Cloak - Irish tune
10:41 - The Green Hills of Tyrol - bagpipe tune
12:43 - Drops of Brandy - Irish 9/8 slip-jig
13:41 - Hamburger Polka - Scandinavian tune
14:48 - 42nd Highlanders March - bagpipe tune
16:20 - Maid Behind the Bar - Irish Reel
17:43 - Scotland the Brave - bagpipe tune
18:58 - Guabi Guabi - African tune I heard Jim
Kweskin Jug Band play long ago
19:54 - Skye Boat Song - bagpipe tune
21:18 - Yet another bagpipe tune I used to play
but can't recall the name of
22:53 - Maggie in the Woods - Irish polka
24:24 - A tiny bit of Bonaparte's Retreat
Dennis Havlena [email protected]
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