Music (that is audio) copyright

Music tracks that contain in their link (but not those with ) may be downloaded and used for personal and non-commercial purposes. The tracks must not be broadcast nor sold without the permission of the copyright holder who can be contacted through the e-mail address given at the top of the Links & contacts page. In many browsers right-clicking on such a link allows the ".mp3" file to be downloaded and saved locally.

Movies by Graham Foster

This page provides access to two batches of 'movies':

1. 8mm cine films made in the 1970s. These concern mountaineering along with travel and scouting.
   It should be noted that these have nothing to do with folk dancing.
   
2. Videos made since 2019 of folk dancing. Links to each of these have already appeared elsewhere on this website.
   

Cookies

This site uses cookies only on the page for finding named dances amongst the programmes of the Bedford Tuesday Playford group. This usage is for the 'purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network'.

Cookies are not used anywhere else. However, if you

1. click a link that invokes the pop-up GF music player (such links are usually indicated by ),
   

   and also

2. change the volume of the sound that is playing by adjusting a slider accessed inside the GF music player window (this is only possible in some browsers),

then the volume setting will be saved in the web localStorage of the browser on your computer.

iTunes - beware!

Links to acquire music from iTunes are given at a few places on this site. However, installing the Apple iTunes software for this can have unwelcome consequences:

• On a PC running MS Windows, the default player for sound and media files, including ".mp3", ".wav" and others, can become the Apple QuickTime player.

• The player activated when following links to sound and media resources within Web browsers can be changed to the Apple QuickTime player. This player may not be as capable as that to which you are accustomed. For example, in Internet Explorer it opens and plays music in a new browser tab and so the music stops as soon as you move away from this tab, maybe to continue to read the web page where you clicked the link. Other players such as the MS Media Player open their controls in a stand-alone window and continue to play independently of the web page being viewed in the browser.

  What makes this even worse, is that there was no simple way to stop QuickTime being used. It is very persistent, indeed the imposition of this into a browser (which was not the reason iTunes was being installed) and the difficulty of removing it has many of the characteristics of a "Trojan Horse".

  Removing it required editing of the MS Windows registry. A set of details can be found here. However, note that the instructions given at this link have to be performed with Administrator privileges, a point which is not made until well down the thread.

Playing links to YouTube, particularly on Android tablets

There are a number of links to YouTube videos from this website. The example on the right is taken from the Graham Foster home page.

• In most environments pressing the play arrow in the still-frame that is displayed starts the video playing at a small size in-situ and it can then be expanded to full-screen if desired.

• Unfortunately in some environments an error message or a circulating arrow can appear. This started to happen on Android tablets in August 2014 when YouTube made some changes.

  A work-around is to refresh the page and then press the title on the left of the bar which appears across the top of the frame. If this brings up a choice of whether to use one of the browsers that are installed or the YouTube app (assuming this app is installed), then choose YouTube. Eventually the video will appear playing inside a YouTube page and can be expanded to full screen. On Android tablets tapping the screen (possibly twice) brings up the browser go-back arrow in the extreme bottom left-hand corner which allows a return to the web page.

• The title can be clicked in other browsers to view the video within a YouTube page.

Access keys

A number of web browser "access keys" are enabled for some pages on this website. These allow keyboard short-cuts to be used to switch between pages. How these are accessed depends on and varies with the browser. For example:

• Chrome, Opera, Edge and Safari on MS Windows require just Alt+key
• Firefox requires Alt+⇑ shift+key
• Internet Explorer requires Alt+key followed by Enter

For further information and other browsers see here.

Content details for banner illustrations

The primary pages of this web site each have a banner which is made-up of photographs, diagrams, etc. Details of the contents of these banners can be found through the following links:

1. for Graham Foster home page
2. for Dance notation
3. for Clubs & programmes
4. for Equipment & software
5. for Links & contacts
6. for Other information

The details can each also be reached by clicking the magnifying glass which appears in the top right-hand corner of each banner illustration.