Hi Fred,

Alabama is another triumph. Like all of your stuff, I save it as a midi, if it comes as a .not file, and leave it where I can have easy access to play it in WMP. Since when I've heard country music live, and there was a piano, I've notiece that it was always more honky tonk than grand; so I tried changing the grand to honky tonk. Give it a try and see if you like it, too.

The first movement of the symphony I've been working on will be done enough to put up a midi version pretty soon. It has a couple of fiddle soloists, which hopefully produce a kind of country sound, and the coda is a direct quotation of "Gonna Raise a Ruckus Tonight." I had really wanted to use a banjo at places, but I don't know the range of the instrument. Your banjo in Alabama sounds very good. Do you know what the high and low notes are that a typical banjo can play?

I guess you were lucky you were where you were when you decided you could play the sax and be an acrobat at the same time, since 'medication' was so readily available. How long after the fact was it when you started to get a laugh out of the memory?

Keep them coming. Soon I'll have to put a folder on the desktop called Fred's Songs.

all best,
mgj