May 9, 2006, 10:55 p.m. (Message 45212, in reply to message 45200)
Frequently, a track with the required tune is for a well known dance which can not be used because the dancers will complain - "We can't dance to that - the music is putting us off." - or some such comment. Also, a track may have the required tune or a suitable alternative but the rest of the tunes (although good) are not suitable for the dance. I frequently have this problem when trying to recommend 'suitable recorded music' for my dances. Regards, Iain Boyd mlamontbrown <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: Actually, it gets a bit more complicated than that. I have some very good recordings of Sets of Reels / Jigs etc, but the first thing I do when selecting CDs is to see if I have a recording for the dance (even if it hasn't actually got a named tune!). So I finish up using what might be an inferior recording, just because someone bothered to make a recording for a particular dance. I suppose I could go through all my dances to see if any of them have recommended tunes, and then check to see if that was the tune used on a particular recording - but I won't! I will continue to search my CD database to see if the dance has a recording, and use it if there is one. Malcolm Malcolm L Brown York (UK) Postal Address - P O Box 11-404 Wellington New Zealand Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com