I just tried to reach what sounds a very useful site mentioned in the
UK Sunday Times ('Doors' section), which allows whistled input to
determine the name of a tune:
http://www.name-this-tune.com/

But all my attempts have failed so far. Anyone else able to reach it
please?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

On 22/11/2004 Terry Pinnell wrote:

Not here either.

It's the power of the Press, one mention and the product/service is
sold out/overwhelmed, give it a few days.

Post the tune here and we'll try and help :-)

--
Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK

"Jeff Gaines" <whitedragon101@hotmail.com> wrote:

OK, thanks Jeff. I did in fact eventually reach the site, but couldn't
get its Java Applet to work. Looked somewhat daunting at first sight,
so I welcome your more direct suggestion of posting it here!

This is the tune my wife is trying to identify. My whistled fragment
is here:
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/Mystery.wav

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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Hi Terry,

This is it I think - albeit a rather jazzed up version and only a clip. Your
whistle is the chorus.

http://www.songsforteaching.com/lear...dshoulders.htm

Best wishes

Gareth Edmondson

On 22/11/2004 Terry Pinnell wrote:

Sounds like 'There is a Tavern in the Town' to me?

There is a tavern in the town,in the town,
And there my true love lays me down, lays me down

Any good?

--
Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK

Sounds more like 'heads, shoulders, knees and toes' to me.... or have I
just been spending too much time with the kids??

Al.

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"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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"There is a tavern in the town"
Words and midi here:
http://ingeb.org/songs/thereist.html

--
Chris
www.monkchester.co.uk

"Jeff Gaines" <whitedragon101@hotmail.com> wrote:

Excellent - thanks both. It was indeed 'Tavern In The Town'! But the
other, Head & Shoulders, was familiar too. As it was a chorus, it may
have been confusing her recollection.

Much appreciate the fast replies.

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

On 22/11/2004 Terry Pinnell wrote:

[snipped]

I think that probably makes us all grumpy old men, sadly :-)

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Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK

"ACT" <act@monkCUTchester.co.uk> wrote in message
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It might be "theres a tavern in the town" to you but to anyone with young
kids or grandkids for that matter its "heads and sholders knees and toes",
keep em happy for hours watching the video.!!

Peter.

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:31:05 +0000, Terry Pinnell
<terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:

I'm in, as the actress said to the bishop!
--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:44:31 UTC, Dr Teeth
<no_email_here_please@tardis.com> wrote:

Are you sure you meant to say that?????
--
Bob Eager
begin a new life...dump Windows!

This morning I went back several times to the Name This Tune site at
(Sometimes it was glacially slow, even around 8 am.) Has anyone else
here tried it yet? I'm having very mixed results. And so far can't get
*anywhere* with the Java-based sound input approach.

I tried that mystery tune as my first test, entering the so-called
'Parson code'. (That's very simple; you just indicate up, down or
repeat for every pair of adjacent notes, regardless of pitch or
pace/speed/tempo.) I used this: *ruddudurr. But none of the hits
included either Tavern or Heads & Shoulders. Even with another
repetition, giving *ruddudurrrruddudurrddd.

And they *did* include tunes which I thought sounded nothing like the
original, such as Gerry & The Pacemakers 'I Like It':
UDDUDURDURUUDDDDUDDDRUUDDDUUDD. Some of the others (mostly classical)
were *very* rare - never heard of most of them.

I *think* I got the code right, but if anyone else would like to try
it we can compare notes.

As a check, I then entered the following code for Good King Wenceslas:
*rrudrduduuur and got an immediate hit. So this *could* be a very
useful tool in future, if I can only be sure I'm using it correctly.

As for that Java stuff... It didn't work out-of-the-box, so I
downloaded the 'java policy file' specified, and placed it where
instructed. That didn't work either. Then I downloaded the specified
program or whatever it is, called 'Melodyhound_en.jar' and ran it.
That loaded an existing program I have called Windows RAR, used for
archiving files! So I uninstalled that (I RARely use it), and tried
running Melodyhound_en.jar again. Still no joy, so I gave up.

If anyone else gets a handle on this jar, I'd appreciate feedback
please.

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

I tried the site this morning - speed was not an issue.

I could'nt get the java app working in the 5 mins that I tried, when
using Firefox as the browser. Swapping over to IE for two minutes, did
work though - although I could'nt get the tool to recognise any tune I
whilstled.

--
Andy M Jenkins
http://www.uk-bug.net The UK Broadband Usergroup

In MsgID<176uZD2KcidF-pn2-Fd9El8706dVh@rikki.tavi.co.uk> within
uk.telecom.broadband, 'Bob Eager' wrote:

Perhaps he did, these bishop things are strange creatures..


--
Dave Johnson - requiem@freeuk.com

On 22/11/2004 Peter Seddon wrote:

[snipped]

I don't know, teaching kids to sing bawdy old drinking songs :-)

--
Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK

Andy M Jenkins <andy_nfTORIES@btopenworld.com> wrote:

Thanks. It seems inconsistent. Been back several times since, and
connection was fast. Finally got the sound applet working. Running
that jar file loaded the 'java console'. After some tentative fiddling
the site then analyzed my whistling.

My 'White Christmas' gave me a hit in the first position. But all the
other 'hits' to which I listened sounded quite different to that and
to each other, to my ears anyway! Here are 3 examples:
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Well-tempered Clavier Bk I fugue No. 16 BWV861
Brahms, Johannes: Serenade in A, strings op. 16, 4th movement
Liszt, Franz: Faust symphony, 2nd movement, 1st theme

If left to defaults (with no categories checked), classical seems to
dominate.

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

"Jeff Gaines" <whitedragon101@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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It goes with the tot of brandy in the milk before bed!!! ;-)

Peter.

On 23 Nov 2004 00:18:53 GMT, "Bob Eager" <rde42@spamcop.net> wrote:

You lead a sheltered life <g>.
Thanks for one of your least offensive posts.
--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:35:28 UTC, Dr Teeth
<no_email_here_please@tardis.com> wrote:

I thought you'd killfiled me? Please do.
--
Bob Eager
begin a new life...dump Windows!