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HyperBorea
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Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 63 Location: Undisclosed
Well, this seems to have ground to a halt. Does no one recognize that performer or that tune?
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 9:02 pm
Onionring
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Joined: 07 Jun 2005 Posts: 95 Location: Liverpool, UK
/me shrugs
I guess I have to keep pondering.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:17 pm
j5
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My initial guess was Elton John and "Goodbyeyellowbrickroad" even tried it backwards (daorkcirbwolleyeybdoog).
I still think it might be Elton John, but I think the notes need to be transcribed backwards as opposed to just playing the sound file backwards in order to make it easier to ID the song.
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:27 pm
j5
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[URL=http://www.luxious.com/pianoman.html]Nevermind[/url]
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:33 pm
HyperBorea
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Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 63 Location: Undisclosed
Nice find. So the image is from a lighting company's portfolio for a production of Piano Man. I tried
/pianoman
/piano%20man
/namonaip
/billyjoel
/billy
/joel
Nope. Someone may want to double check those. When I get a moment I'll try other tracks off that album and see if we have a winner.
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:29 pm
shylilembrace
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Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 781
could it be something in the music itself? maybe you should try to find out what notes those are.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:09 am
HyperBorea
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Well, I'm stumped. Wonder if we can get a hint?
HB
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:54 pm
Puppy_Zwolle
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Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 969 Location: Not Zwolle anymore. really no kiddin'
This sounds like music-code. But unless you have some very smart music decoder or a degree in music (and I don't) there is no way to make head or tails of this one.
Probably the musical versin of the Murray-code.... sure sounds like tickertape. Just listen, only the pitch changes all the time not the rithme. Now connect a musicbar with the 5 lines the Murraycode needs and I think we have a contestant.
Now somebody REALLY SMART who actually can put this on a notebar so 'we' can read it.
EDIT: Just saw its a mid file. Should not be to hard for any musicmaker program to 'crack'.
http://www.soogees.com/yellowbrickroad/9338712194/score.mid
Who has got something like that?
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 6:45 pm
HyperBorea
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Well, I haven't had time to get this on a note bar, but between some freeware, some demoware, and a virtual keyboard I've figured out the notes. They're two lines running together. The "low MIDI/low notes" are on the bass clef, the highs on the treble clef. I include the MIDI note values because two Fs, say,might be an octave apart on the same clef. You can tell them apart with the numbers.
The file is a comma-delimited text saved from Excel.
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 11:47 am
HyperBorea
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Rogi Ocnorb dropped me a hint:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Re: A hint...
piano roll midi
Follow the Zwolle
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Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:27 pm
Puppy_Zwolle
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Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 969 Location: Not Zwolle anymore. really no kiddin'
I'm glad of 2 things:
1) I got somewthing right.
2) My name isn't white rabit.
Took a crack at it but no luck so far. HyperBorea your anotation is hard to decode.. or maybe its just the puzzle thats hard.
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:06 am
HyperBorea
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Puppy_Zwolle wrote:
Took a crack at it but no luck so far. HyperBorea your anotation is hard to decode.. or maybe its just the puzzle thats hard.
The best way to view that data is to download the .txt file and open/import it into Excel (or the like) as a text file. Excel should ask you if it's a delimited file and what the delimiters are. Tell it commas and everything will come out in its own nice column.
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 1:41 pm
tallerbird
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Joined: 11 Oct 2005 Posts: 278 Location: Birmingham,UK
Any decent MIDI composition software such as Cakewalk Pro can transcribe to notation or piano roll.
Some of these Free Trial MIDI editors should be able to accomplish the task as well. free downloads -MIDI Editors
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:21 pm
HyperBorea
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tallerbird wrote:
Any decent MIDI composition software such as Cakewalk Pro can transcribe to notation or piano roll.
Some of these Free Trial MIDI editors should be able to accomplish the task as well. free downloads -MIDI Editors
I had trouble finding that for the Mac. Maybe I didn't search with the right terms. Eh. If someone wants to retranscribe the MIDI data to compare to what I found, that'd be cool.
Based on another hint I received from Rogi Ocnorb, I feel pretty good about what I produced. I can post that if people want.
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:52 pm
tallerbird
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Ok. I managed to transcribe it to notation but it still means nothing to me but maybe it will help somebody else. Hope this works.
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:10 pm
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