I. Informant number: 879

II. Reel number: 2

III. Student’s Name: Ben Austin

IV. Date started: September 17, 2009

V. Date finished: September 17, 2009

VI. Actions taken in dealing with the reel.

1. Reel’s features: 48,000 Hz, 24 bit, Mono.
2. Tempo edited to 66.500 beats per minute
3. Auto region set up through “Built regions using the current tempo.” Tempo set by 60 measures and 60 beats.
4. Beep saved as ‘Dial string: 2; ‘Single tone length’: depending on selection (seconds); ‘Break length’: 0.001; ‘Pause length’: 5.000
5. 00:47:43.360-00:47:43.744 deleted.  Beep inserted.  Length of beep 00:00:00.384
6. 01:02:20.416-01:02:20.922 deleted.  Beep inserted.  Length of beep 00:00:00.576
7. 01:02:25.984-01:02:26.965 deleted.  Beep inserted.  Length of beep 00:00:00.981
8. 01:02:41.173-01:02:41.706 deleted.  Beep inserted.  Length of beep 00:00:00.533
9. 01:04:09.168-01:04:09.717 deleted.  Beep inserted.  Length of beep 00:00:00.549
10. Regions extracted from LAGS(INF879)2.wav and saved as wave files 
11. Files from LAGS(INF879)2.wav converted into mp3 format 
12. Folder with wav files deleted.
13. Informant: Comfortable
14. Interview: Conversational
15. Additional Notes: Additional informant (wife) is present at beginning of reel and reappears periodically to answer questions throughout the hour. At 1:01:30 the interview moves to informant’s brother’s house and the “history minded” brother becomes another auxiliary informant.
16. Content Notes: Region 7 informant describes how to make a haystack. Region 13 informant and auxiliary explain making chitlins, pig’s feet, head cheese, liver sausage. “We ate all parts except the lungs”.