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Seek Lyrics for Piano Rolls
By Andy Taylor

I wish to extend my appreciation to Robert Perry, Terry Smythe, and
many others who have taken the time and effort to preserve and scan
these old piano rolls and make them available for download.  When
I first constructed a MIDI driven piano, this media was fairly scarce.
I did a web search recently and downloaded over 4000 titles!  This is
great -- many long-gone titles I used to have, I can now hear again.

However, It is my opinion that the lyrics need to be saved as well.
I found myself trying to recall the lyrics to "We're going over, it
ain't gonna rain no more," and others that my mind cannot recall the
complete lyrics to.

I would like to add the lyrics to the MIDI files, as time permits.
I know this is not a small undertaking, however it adds more enjoyment
to the files, and some of the obscure titles are just plain fun!
I will do what I can.  I intend to publish the needed lyric titles on
the web (URL forthcoming).  Any help would be much appreciated.  I can
locate lyrics for the more common selections, but most are non-extant.

This is going to take years!
Andy Taylor


(Message sent Wed 17 Feb 2010, 17:16:47 GMT, from time zone GMT-0600.)

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