Thomas Arthur Turner, music, Tongue Tied, writen in about 1938 or sometime around there. Dad wrote the lyrics and melody, someone set it to music (my parents mentioned that they paid someone to do that, neither mom nor dad knew how to notate music). The first page of this sheet music survived for 90 years, but in the interim one page was lost. I remember as a child knowing the part that was lost. I reconstructed it to the best of my ability, and sent both the exising sheet music and audio (from playing piano, recorded on my phone of the missing piece).

I had a huge difficulty getting Tunescribers to figure out how to put the two together….. but ultimately they managed to make this performance video (the hands had to be removed since the original performance video was so slow as to be laughable). This performance (without hands) is almost like the sheet music.

My audio part just sounds like garbage, not really because i remembered and played garbage, but difficulties in putting the two together occurred… — it took two months to arrive as something that remotely sounds like the piece dad wrote, — i had to ask them to REDO it, and play the sheet music with the chords too big to play except as an arpeggion (they just left some notes out), and to please hold the tied notes, (they played the tied notes twice (which cancelled out the syncopation that I know dad liked), and to please play the song a tempo (i didn’t mention the tempo for them to use, and they played it like a durge in the first performance video).

But this video is close to the tempo I play the piece.  I had to laugh that sometimes there are no keys greyed out when there are lots of notes being heard….. so i think this technology (and the technicians) are not quite up to “tempo” not to make a bad pun.

At this point, i am quite sure that i am the only one who cares about dad’s music anyway…LOL. so i am not pressing for a second re-d0.

Tongue tied performance video….. a song composed by my dad, for my mom.

MP4 of Tongue tied.