Excerpts from Folderol's message of 2011-07-20 23:02:27 +0200: > Warning! This file is about 12M and the audio runs for 8 1/2 minutes. > > I recorded this in 1982, by hanging out of an attic window at about 4:30am. > This was as close as I could get to 'Blackie' who always sat high up in the > same chestnut tree. The time was dictated by the need to get zero traffic > noise. Even then I was at this every morning for about a week! > > The MIC was a bog-standard Unidyne B plugged straight into a Casio DA-7 > portable DAT machine (cost an arm and a leg in those days). I was getting a bit > paranoid about losing this so took a Wave copy from the machine in the late > 1990s. > > Blackie is actually a copyright infringer. He copied the most notable part of > his song from a friend who used to whistle that handful of notes frequently - > to everyone's annoyance. However, we forgave Blackie as he'd been hearing it > virtually from hatching. You see, he'd fallen out of the nest and Terry (same > one as I've mentioned previously) hand reared him. Also, I swear that at a > couple of points he's actually laughing! > > A final twist was that a couple of years later we saw and heard several young > blackbirds with a remarkably similar song. > > http://www.archive.org/download/BitsAndPieces/Blackbird.mp3 Thanks, he sung very nicely. Blackbirds aren't highly regarded here since they're rather common, but they're certainly the best common singers. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
