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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> Your package uncompressed to a 600K binary, 128 '.pat' files of which the
> largest were acpiano and acguitar (about 1MB each), and I bet I could
> delete most of them and still play orchestral music.  One midi file wanted
> a 'hammond' but settled for something else.  A timidity.cfg which pointed
> at your patches directory and also gravis.cfg.  And documentation.
>
>
> timidity filename.mid   - plays without any need for switches, device
> names, etc.  Sounds a great deal better than my 71K AWE sound bank .sbk.

The BL3 timidity works in BL2 if I add libc5 (three files).

I downloaded some music and was missing hammond and britepno for 2 midis.
The former played anyway (part of the music), the latter piece was silent.

I was able to symlink to existing files:

ln -s acpiano.pat britepno.pat  (in the GUS2 directory)

I am playing a Beethoven sonata right now on acpiano.  It sounds like a 
small tinny speaker but I can run cables to the stereo receiver.  The 
orchestral pieces don't sound as good because the patch files for string 
and wind instruments are much smaller than the 1MB acpiano.  Can I 
download separate violin.pat etc?

I should be able to put together a set of about 20 orchestral and symphony 
band instruments.  Ron, perhaps you could post a smaller timidity-bl3.tgz 
(binary, cfg, docs) separately from the patch files and people could 
then separately download your patches or my smaller set or whatever they 
preferred.

Is there some way (as with playmidi -p) to specify the instrument other 
than symlinking patch files?