Thank you. Something very similar works on my PC for system sounds. This is shown in the Perl below. I get all the same sound except for SystemHand. ..it is other wav files, which I know give different sounds (I can hear these in another application) which seem to be the problem. 

my (@wsn, $js, @wavf);

$wsn[0] = 'SystemDefault';
$wsn[1] = 'SystemAsterisk';
$wsn[2] = 'SystemExclamation';
$wsn[3] = 'SystemExit';
$wsn[4] = 'SystemHand';
$wsn[5] = 'SystemQuestion';
$wsn[6] = 'SystemStart';
 
       
for($js = 0; $js <= 6; $js++) {

    print "before play $wsn[$js]\n";

    Win32::Sound::Play($wsn[$js]);

    print "after play\n";

}

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In reply to Re^2: Playing wav files by merrymonk
in thread Playing wav files by merrymonk

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