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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>You misunderstand. The songs are a bonus on my
software, I pass those out all the time. What I'm selling are the
instructions for programing your own songs. I have audio teaching
instructions. The CD is $29.95. You actually think that price covers
1057 songs? Heck no!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>I do charge $7.00 to program by request. But
that's to buy the cheet music and mailing if needed. And when I come out
ahead I buy new equipment. Plus I need ink, paper, blank CD's and all
that.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>If you could do it for free, I'd love to know
how. I get tons of requsts for stuff that often requires me to buy a
$17.00 book to get the sheet music for one song. So after so many requests
you start to go broke. You end up having to charge, trust me. If
nothing else, charge for the time. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>So it often looks and sounds like I'm selling songs
but I'm not. I add 4 songs a week on average and don't want to start a
list of what I have. So rather than sending out one file after another, I
sell the entire 1047 files as a bundle and offer a life time free updates.
This way I still make $7.00 per request, but each song gets added to the big
bundle. So the people that request an update gets everything that was
added since their last update. In some ways it's the luck of the draw
unless they make a specific request.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>It might be a dumb way to do it but sheet music is not
cheap. i'm dreading the next few months because I really need more
children's songs. I hate doing those because they are short and
easy. I prefer long hard stuff with a lot of key changes. The quire
director at Church hates it when I sing a special because I like doing
complicated versions of stuff. She's getting used to me though. The
funny thing is I'm in bell quire and she'll select the hardest stuff for us to
play with key changes up the ying yang, but yet she wants me to go easy on
her. (right)</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>I'm hoping I can find some kid's songs that are
busy. I don't have any requests, I just feel I need more kid's
songs.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>SNOOPI</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 3/4/2006 12:27:17 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
geczy@earthlink.net writes:</DIV>
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size=2>Hey,<BR><BR>Well that is one point. But then, like Flint is
selling his songs online for 10 dollars. He is making money off of
someones work! That's when I think you should pay a couple buks to the company
who sold the original songs.<BR><BR>I'm not saying here that Flint should go
in jail, I'm saying my opinion. If I ever get into making songs, I will
never everever ever ever ever sell them on cds. If I do author cds, I
will author them for free. Everyone should have the write to a cd with
50 songs or more, regardless if their African American, Hungarian, German,
Chinees, etc.<BR><BR>Regards: Tomi<BR><BR><BR><BR>> ----- Original Message
-----<BR>>From: Dectalk@aol.com<BR>>To:
dectalk@bluegrasspals.com<BR>>Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 13:40:19
EST<BR>>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Vocal Writer<BR><BR><BR>>I have an
argument on that. First of all, anyone can sing in the
shower<BR>>without paying royalties. Well, people who can't
talk have Dectalk in their<BR>>communication device, so what if they wanted
to sing in the shower?<BR><BR>>Now, when I buy sheet music I'm
converting it into an alternative format<BR>>which is legal.
Alternative formats for the disabled are exampt from
paying<BR>>royalties which is why the library for the blind can put
books and newspapers on<BR>>tape, CD, oe the talking book
radio.<BR><BR>>A Dectalk file can not be converted back into sheet
music, therefore I'm not<BR>>copying anything.<BR><BR>>Now, to record an
album, yes, you do need to pay royalties. But to just<BR>>sing
a Scout song, camp song, sing Happy Birthday to a friend, or whatever,
I<BR>>will fight to the death before I pay royalties.<BR><BR>>If a
5 year old starts singing "THE WHEELS ON THE BUS" no one has to
pay<BR>>royalties. So setting up a communication device so a
disabled 5 year old can<BR>>sing the same song is simply equal
access. Dectalk is nothing more than an<BR>>external voice for
many people. It's no different than walking with
a<BR>>wheelchair, seeing with a seeing eye dog, or anything
else.<BR><BR><BR>>SNOOPI<BR><BR><BR><BR>>In a message dated 3/4/2006
9:57:19 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,<BR>>geczy@earthlink.net
writes:<BR><BR>>Hey,<BR><BR>>Flint Million's site ( www
.themillionweb.com) had some that were not on
the<BR>>list.<BR><BR>>Third questions:<BR><BR>>Here's what I
think about all this dectalk and singing business: Since
these<BR>>songs are copywrited, you would need permition from the
authors to sell<BR>>them. I think as long as the songs are free
and not sold for 30 dollars per 50<BR>>song, you would be ok with
Plannetmirror and all that crap. Yes, you still<BR>>made it, but
you did not rewrite the song's text from scratch. If you do
sell<BR>>it for instance, you would need to ask the writers if you
can and if they say<BR>>so, dedicate 5 percent of your sails to the
writers. So I don't think<BR>>Jayson could get in trouble with
that stupid company. I mean, cmon, their site<BR>>is full of
spam!<BR><BR>>Anyways, try flint's site, it's under speech synthesis
songs. Hth<BR><BR>>Tomi<BR><BR>>)<BR><BR>>> ----- Original
Message -----<BR>>>From: "Matthew Horspool"
<drjaws@blueyonder.co.uk<BR>>>To: "DECtalk Discussions"
<dectalk@bluegrasspals.com<BR>>>Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 10:22:48
-0000<BR>>>Subject: [DECtalk] Vocal
Writer<BR><BR>>>Hello,<BR><BR>>>Can I first congratulate the
person who created the more recent Vocal<BR>>>Writer songs?
They're wonderful! Could that person please contact
me<BR>>>off-list?<BR><BR>>>Secondly, is there a website where I
can download Vocal Writer demo<BR>>>songs other than those on
the archive?<BR><BR>>>Thirdly, and perhaps more seriously, there
are a few songs in the<BR>>>/vocalwriter directory on the archive
that might prevent the<BR>>>planetmirror mirror if they found
out. I'm wondering if it's worth<BR>>>moving those to a
separate archive which is not
mirrored?<BR><BR>>>---<BR><BR>>>Matthew F.
Horspool<BR><BR>>>E-mail:<BR>>>matthew@thehorspools.com<BR><BR>>>Microsoft
.net
Messenger:<BR>>>drjaws@blueyonder.co.uk<BR><BR>>>Skype:<BR>>>matthewhorspool<BR><BR>>>Web:<BR>>>www.thehorspools.com<BR><BR>>>_______________________________________________<BR>>>DECtalk
mailing
list<BR>>>DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com<BR>>>http://jaybird.no-ip.info/mailman/listinfo/dectalk<BR>>_______________________________________________<BR>>DECtalk
mailing
list<BR>>DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com<BR>>http://jaybird.no-ip.info/mailman/listinfo/dectalk<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>DECtalk
mailing
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