English Village Background Music

Several years ago, I came across a website containing the scores of many British folk melodies, some of which I harmonized, arranged and recorded on my electronic piano. I copied the music files to floppy disk and also saved the recordings on an MD. My plan was to have the pieces transferred to CD and then play them as background music in the school. Things didn’t work out. My piano disk drive and MD player both broke down and MDs became obsolete. It seemed all was lost and my efforts, such as they were, had been a waste of time. I felt disappointed, to put it mildly. Anyway, I happened to come across the old floppy disk recently and, for some reason or other, shoved it into the dead disk drive of my piano. Picture my amazement when the moribund thing came back to life. I grabbed my tiny mp3 recorder and, somewhat riskily, connected its microphone socket to the headphone socket of my piano. The recordings that resulted can be heard here: 

http://www.myspace.com/564677152

 (I’m not sure if the hyperlink will work. You may have to copy and paste the URL into your address bar.)

The sound is rather “hissy”, which, given the recording circumstances, is hardly surprising, but I’m pleased the pieces survived at least. I’ve also uploaded a simple composition of my own called Little Drum, which is the “theme tune” for the English Village website.