French Concertina Site

[Perry Werner]

Howdy:

 

I was snooping around on the web and discovered this concertina site "live" from France.

 

http://concertina.free.fr/

 

Thought you'd be interested.

Maybe I read about this here recently, so please excuse the repeat posting.

Is this the French edition of Concertina.net

 

Included on the site from what I can make out with my poor French are exciing topics like

"The Concertina in The Bible",

"The Concertina and The Devil"

 

and a few concertina related jokes (which are posted in bothe French AND English) such as

 

Q: What's the difference between an accordion and a concertina?

A: The accordion takes longer to burn.

 

AND

 

Q. What is the difference between a concertina and an onion?

A. The concertina is pre-scored for easy slicing.

 

But my favorite on the site and the main reason I'm posting this is to point you to this wonderful image which I found pretty amusing.

Is this technique possible in reality?

The speed and abrubtness of bellows technique fascinate me!

Seems that this technique eliminates the need for air to flow through the instrument almost altogether.

Anyone know who this is???

 

http://concertina.free.fr/jouer.htm

 

Have fun.

 

Perry Werner

Edited December 8, 2004 by Perry Werner

[bellowbelle]

Tres interessante et tres utile, je pense!

 

Or, something like that.

 

Maybe that site will help me brush up on my French, too, not just my concertina playing.

 

[Chris Timson]

That site has been listed in the Net section of the Concertina FAQ for some time (he says smugly).

 

Chris

[Stephen Chambers]

Is this technique possible in reality?

That's the "Shuffling" style of bellows control.

 

The speed and abrubtness of bellows technique fascinate me!

You will have to go to the Casino at Monte Carlo to study it, but learning it could prove very expensive.

 

Anyone know who this is???

Isn't he one of the Croupiers ?

[Brian Humphrey]

Note the sophisticated timing. On my screen, his right hand is completing 2.6 bellows movement cycles (a push and a pull) per second, and his left hand is completing 2.8 bellows movement cycles per second. I expect that his playing would sound unlike any I have ever heard before.