| Over the years, many readers have been kind enough to send me nice little notes about the various pages and I have read and cherished the comments. Recently, I discovered that my hoard of notes was not to be found on my computer any longer. From now on these will be placed here for safekeeping, starting with 1 March 2005. The most recent receipt is at the top and they progress chronologially in reverse down the page. I trust I make myself sufficiently obscure? - - - - - - - - - - 2005-08-22 Cher Amie Forgive my english, but I am French and to express pleasure on the find of this collections is my want. Thanks you so very much Henri Cillement - - - - - - - - - - 2005-4-10 Dear Sir: I am a mandolin player who lives at present in the Latvian Republic and would like to compliment you on your site and to thank you for the time spent on transcribing the music into easily-usable computer formats. I have many friends here who also love Irish musics and we are making extensive use of the collections. Thanks you again. Kelarr Jomersson - - - - - - - - - - 2005-03-26 My dear fellow! I cannot sufficiently express my astoundment at finding your site on the web. The Irish music sites are wonderful, but the publishing of the Catches and even more, the English Madrigals, is a public service that cannot be sufficiently commended. I have let my students know of their existance and they refer to them frequently. Thank you for your efforts. Where possible I shall amend the individual works and advise you of any errors found. You say that you do NOT read music? Amazing. I hope you will continue to add to the work and again wish to let you know just how valuable I find it to be. G. Fellini, P.Mus. Collegio di Musici, Milan o - - - - - - - - - - 2005-03-21 Hi, Vince. Your pages, happened on accidentally, are like a dream come true. I do like to play a few tunes, but I have a particular difficulty in accessing music. I am unable to read staff notation because I am blind. The result is that if I have trouble learning a tune by ear, I'm in severe trouble. I hadn't been aware of formats which provided ABC format notation (I'm presuming here that this denotes music notation in letters). I did have a look at one of the downloaded ABC pages, but wasn't sure how to read it. Can you give me any pointers? In any case, the pages are a treasure trove for people like me, and your fame is spreading among my O'Carolan wannabee associates. Thanks!. Eamon OConcubhair. - - - - - - - - - - 2005-03-11 Hi Vince, The CD is really awesome. The midis are especially helpful. I can't sight read music, so need to hear the basic tune before I can then learn it from the music. Fantastic resource, worth every penny! Thanks for doing it. Leslie Quintero - - - - - - - - - - 2005-03-11 Dear Mr Oldmusic, Today I received a mail from the Dutch Trekharmonica Group (for players on the squeezebox, buttonbox, medodeon or any other name you may want to use for this musical windbag). In it a suggestion to look up your website. It is the best tip i've had since playing the thing! I am very, very impressed by your efforts to share your work with us!I have only started to experiment with musical notation programs myself and have found out how much time this takes. HOW DID YOU DO IT??? (I'm a masochist!) I have passed the message on to all my friends who are into the Irish Music. Anyway, this was only meant to be a very warm thank you for your work, it will inspire us for years to come! Sietze Ketelaar, Drachten, Netherlands - - - - - - - - - - 2005-02-20 hi Vince,I am glad you got the money ok and your site is great ,I have learned some lovely jigs Larry o gaff and the priests leap which are my two favourites so far. I will send a few more dollars later on, . Thanks Vince You are great, best wishes Sham Power, Shrough Lismore, Co.Waterford, Ireland. - - - - - - - - - - 2005 ?? ?? Dear Vince, Randy Shupp from Spring Thing, etc. here. Was just on your website, downloaded Noteworthy Reader and listened to several old Irish tunes. What an incredibly kind and useful thing you have created! May the wind be always at your back and the road rise to meet you and all the good stuff. Love, Randy - - - - - - - - - - Look... I could go on posting all the emails I get about how "This is such a seminal piece of work", "I'm, so grateful for your efforts and that I can access the music for free..." It's enough that I get (as of 2010) STILL over 450 hits per day on the site. That alone tells me that there is a dedicated coterie of Irish Music fans who have naught else to do but surf the bloody net! Glad that you found me, glad that you feel the site is worthwhile! Now, go back to the index page and see if I still need financial help! The emails are great, and I definitely love 'em, but the money is needed to keep paying for the bandwidth, d'ye ken? And (as of 2010 January) it's been a bit thin. All respects, Vince BACK TO OLD MUSIC PROJECT MAIN PAGE |