Re: What's the name of this tune?

> "Samba de Orpheu," by Luis Bonfa.
> 
> There's an online database somewhere (the name escapes me at the
> moment - maybe someone here knows) that allows one to search for a
> song by singing the melody (or a ****tion of it), or entering it on a
> virtual keyboard. Unfortunately I found the results to be hit-or-miss,
> but maybe that's because it doesn't yet have a suitably comprehensive
> collection of data.

I know I'm two months late, but maybe you're still interested :-)

The technique you mention is known as "query by humming". Google has many
hits
on that subject. One site is http://www.midomi.com,
and it has your tune
in its
database.

Cheers,
Simon

(f'up2 rmmj)