How to handle it?

Dagmar asked about how I would treat new contributions to this site. I never knew before, I even don't know what Ola did when he encountered different versions from different people.

This is what I'll do:

• If someone proposes a change for a couple of lines in an existing transcription, the existing chords will be replaced by the new ones. I will not check if the corrections are musically correct. I might do so by and then, but generally I will not have the time to do so.
  There will be no notice to the one who did the older version, but if he or she goes to the page, finds it out, and does not agree, he'll surely be sending me an email saying "you're a bloody asshole, how could you do that, my chords are the best and even better than Hammill's ones", and such. :-) The varying versions will then be treated as alternate versions, getting their own pages.
• If someone sends a complete song transcription, no matter if that song is already being listed or not, it'll get an own page, marked as "new" or "alternate version", respectively. So, if you have *a lot of changes* to a song that is already available, please do me the favour of sending a complete transcription.
• By default, all contributors are being credited by their real name as shown in the email I get. I will not tell your email address to the public except you allow me to do so. As well, if you prefer to stay in the Quiet Zone, you may ask me not to credit you at all.
  (Hey Peter, isn't that quite a good chance to put strange and varying versions of your own songs into the net? :-)

If you think I could do something better - which goes for this very page as well -, do not hesistate to drop me a line: Bernhard Beutler, web$(a) na$lo go ($dot) com. Remove the space and $ signs. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I'm receiving 700+ spam mails a day.

How to contribute your work

You may send in any text file but you'd do me a big favour by sending in files in HTML format, formatting the transcription part as preformatted (HTML tags <PRE> and </PRE>) while using headings and the usual HTML stuff where they apply. This makes sure the pages look as you wish them to, and minimizes errors.

If you send in any other text file, I'll do the file conversion for you and, when it's done and uploaded, I'll ask you via email to check if everything's alright. You know that with any conversion, errors easily occur. Please make sure, thus, that your email/internet accounts are still open a couple of days after you sent me something. Conversion and uploading may tke a while by and then.

Disclaimer:

These Peter Hammill transcription pages are made by musicians for other musicians who love his songs, and they're for educational purposes only. All copyright © by Peter Hammill and whoever is listed on the records the songs are from. Please remain faithful to the copyright laws of your country. Page design is copyright © 1999 by Ola Rinta-Koski and by Bernhard Beutler.