Manoucheries?

Jack

A question for Dennis or any other fluent French speakers among us: What's the story with the manoucheries site? I thought once they switched to the new site, it wouldn't be long before the old transcriptions et al were up again, but so far they've only got the two valses up on the transcription page, and even the grille page isn't complete. I try to muddle through the forum (incidentally, there's a bunch of video links up there: Fapy, Tchavolo, Nolan) with my French-English dictionary, but it's slow going and I miss having the old bunch of transcriptions there...any ideas?

Best,
Jack.

Kcox

All I know is that the few times I have ventured onto that forum the maturity level was about on par with an elementary school. I know some people who are regulars on it, though, so if Dennis doesn't enlighten us here I'll ask them about it at the giant all-Montreal gypsy jazz night that he's organized for this weekend and let you know what I learn afterwards.

dennis

the webmaster's just really slow.... (REALLY SLOW!!!!!) the guy who runs the site is the guy who runs the djangostation site as well... (if i'm not mistaken)...

and yes a lot of videos are being posted right now especially from favino881 who's quickly becoming the french django santa claus...

dennis

Kcox wrote:

All I know is that the few times I have ventured onto that forum the maturity level was about on par with an elementary school. I know some people who are regulars on it, though, so if Dennis doesn't enlighten us here I'll ask them about it at the giant all-Montreal gypsy jazz night that he's organized for this weekend and let you know what I learn afterwards.

bring your guitar!

ramsezaz

You're mistaken dennis
It's not the same webmaster (though they have the same firstname).
Christopher Waits (chrisgadjo) is web master on manoucherie, and cristof manages djangostation.

Jack

Whoever it is, they are, to quote Dennis, REALLY SLOW!!!!! It doesn't seem like it would take much to upload those files...

Best,
Jack.

trumbology

You may have already done this, but some of the Gadjodrom pages are archived on the "Internet Wayback Machine" <www.archive.org>

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.gadjodrom.com

Not all the links listed lead to archived pages, and the links within the archived pages don't always lead to the linked pages, but the who project is pretty amazing nevertheless (having an archive of the entire web). I just pulled up a single grille to see if any were available, and it came up.

I've also found some other charts and such on archive.org that were from sites that had gone dead.

Neil

EDIT:

I just went diggin' around to see what was in there. As I suspected, it's far from complete. I found 36 or so grilles that don't seem to currently be on Manoucheries, though some of them look familiar to me (ie I've come accross them somewhere online and saved them before). None of the image files on the transcription pages seem to have been saved.

Zip file attached with what I found. Perhaps the Gadjodrom archive can be reassembled by those of us around here who might have saved the missing parts of it.

MichaelHorowitz

Wow...the way back time machine is awesome!

Life was a lot simpler back in 2003:


http://web.archive.org/web/200304112158 ... books.com/


Thanks for posting that!

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Jack

For those of you looking just for the grilles, there's a zip file at the Yahoo GJ group's Files/Images section. 141 of them as .gifs
http://tinyurl.com/cb9lh

Best,
Jack.

chrisgadjo

Hello all,
just a few words about manoucheries.com
I would just like to say I'm not that slow :roll: as I'm running at least 5/8 websites as a job and a few more I've created for friends.
I have enough to do developping php/mysql applications 365 mornings a year and then working at guitare village as their "webmaster" and gipsy guitars seller six afternoons out of seven a week... this without speaking about gipsy workshops every tuesday evening and trying to get some time to work my on guitar... Sorry, but as you know days are only 24 hours long and I need, well say, 4 or 5 to sleep sometimes...
The problem with manoucheries is that when I said I was about to stop gadjodrom, it was kind of a revolution, same thing each time I'm fed up with manoucheries.com and say I will soon end it up. So, I let it live its own life but without working on it any more.
Last thing, I DO NOT WANT to be considered as any kind of gipsy guitar guru and you can't imagine how many question I was receiving when there was a contact page on gadjodrom "how to do this... ?" "what to think about that ?" and so on. That's why there is not any more contact page on manoucheries... and why I'm working any more on manoucheries contents, except for the charts I will continue to feed slowly (I've got at least 400 others in my personnal notbook waiting to be put online)
Hope you will understand... and forgive my English, I've been quite a long time without using it, sorry dad
all the best
chris wait (without an s at the end rams )