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Re: Searching for sounds on the web using Findsound

Subject: Re: Searching for sounds on the web using Findsound
From: "Richard Humphries" mdsfx
Date: Fri Jun 1, 2007 8:22 am ((PDT))
Here's a Kookaburra on Freesound-- not to be confused with the program
you have mentioned.

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=3D2165

I also have one that I recorded from a great distance away at the
local zoo. If you are interested I could send you a clip.

-Richard

--- In  "rchapanis"
<> wrote:
>
> While searching for kookabura sounds this morning, I stumbled upon a
> program called Findsound, which helps you search for sounds you want.
> I haven't tried it, and it isn't free, but it sounds interesting and I
> thought you might like to check it out:
>
> http://www.findsounds.com/palette.html
>
> P.S. On a trip to Australia several years ago, I stayed overnight in
> Syndey.  Early the next morning, I was awakened by raucous laughter.
> Instantly, I felt embarrassed, thinking that my neighbors had been
> watching me through their windows (close by).  But, then I noticed
> several kookaburas lined up on the telephone wire connected to the
> house next door.  These were the guys making all the racket, and they
> continued doing it each morning at the same time (5-6 AM). (They'd
> show up, give their morning announcements (stock/sports reports), and
> then take off. :))
>






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