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  1. You should get Wim Wakker's duet tutor with your Elise and Roger has already given you a link to Brian Hayden's tutor. AFAIK, that is all there is for tutors for the Hayden layout.
  2. See https://thesession.org/discussions/49075 for some suggestions/opinions.
  3. There are lot of USB-A to USB-C adapters available, just make sure that you pick the right genders.
  4. You can get an external drive that simply plugs into a USB port, I have one and have found it handy occasionally. They are quite cheap on Amazon.
  5. Thank you very much for doing this this as I am a long time Stan Rogers fan. Background. The Dreadnoughts are a Canadian band founded in their love of the songs of Stan Rogers. Stan started out singing mostly traditional maritime songs but then moved on to writing and performing songs about other regions of Canada. Stan had plans for writing songs about all the varied regions of Canada but his career was cut short when he died in a fire aboard an aircraft in 1983. He was ony 33 years old. Here is the Dreadnoughts version of the song: https://youtu.be/cw9O2xdAmGc?si=PSQlfC-sJhZCrKxG
  6. This is a play by ear tutor primarily and David added the transcription later. What do you plan to do about the audio recordings of the tutor? I have been providing it as a link in my sig (see below) but I am not going to live forever(!) so that is not a permanent solution. The ICA have recently added the audio recordings to their web-site: https://concertina.org/alan-days-anglo-concertina-tutor/ This appears to be available to non-members so this might be a possibility for you.
  7. I think that Wolf used the term "double stop" a few years ago, he was referring to playing his EC at the time, and it stuck with me as a reasonable description of the style.
  8. Isle of Beauty as played by the Band of the Irish Guards (first tune): Somebody in the comments said that they thought it was played too fast! Looking at the score I see mostly 3rds and 6ths with a 4th near the end. I would have called this style of playing 'double stopping' but maybe I have got the wrong idea about the meaning of double stopping?
  9. Thank you David, I had forgotten those photos.
  10. Jeff You can change the angle of the handrest on an Elise. The are simply screwed to their ends with two wood screws so, if you can bring yourself to drill a hole in the end, you change the angle. Before you drill a new hole then remove one of the screws and tighten the other one so that the handrest does not swivel easily but is still adjustable. Then put the end back on the concertina and try a few different orientations before drilling a new hole for a permanent position for the handrest. I settled on having the handrest parallel with the buttons on my Elise but I also made some new handrails that were much higher than the rather low ones that come as standard. Simple woodworking if you have the tools. I have read about Ɓukasz's 'antler' handrests before but I don't really understand what they look like and why they work.
  11. Interesting! My tutor is clearly for the 2nd edition of the Jackie which has publication date of 2008. It looks like there was an earlier edition from 2003 - maybe that was for 1st edition Jackie that you have. Comparing the two different layouts it looks like Wim removed the D#5 on the LHS and added a C6. Then on the RHS he removed G#5 and Ab4 to add Bb5 and B5. This extends the range up a couple of notes at the expense of not being able to play in E - which would not be a hardship for most folks. On your box I think that you can, subject to having enough range, play in Bb, F, C, G, D, A and E without having to use enharmonic notes on out of position buttons. For most folks playing a Jackie then playing in F, C, G and D would be just fine. I think that your layout is good for a student instrument. Looking through my Jackie Tutor book I do not immediately see any tunes or exercises that you could not play on your box. My only suggestion is to stagger the columns of your layout diagrams to better match the button layout - like the 2nd edition layout charts that you linked to in your earlier post: https://www.concertinaconnection.com/jackie layout.htm Otherwise, I think that you are good to go using your own diagrams.
  12. I have an early Jackie tutor which I am sure is for the 1st edition and the layout in there is the same as your 2nd edition picture. I would be very surprised if Wim changed layouts between the 1st and 2nd editions so I am wondering if you really have a genuine Jackie. The Chinese factory that made Jackies for Wim also sold their own version of the box and it looks identical apart from the Concertina Connection logo. You could use a tuning app on a cell phone to tell you what notes are actually played so that you can make up your own chart. If they do not conform to the standard EC positions then you might have to get it fixed.
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