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[bmzane@hotmail.com]

How do you play a piece of music on the concertina
if the buttons on your box do not represent all the
notes in the piece?

[Rod]

How do you play a piece of music on the concertina
if the buttons on your box do not represent all the
notes in the piece?

With ingenuity.

[Johanna]

If you're only missing a note or two here and there - maybe because they're notes that aren't normally part of the key you're playing in - there are ways of faking those. Try substituting a different note from the same chord, or a note that's one note higher or lower. Sometimes it also works to just skip the note you're missing. I play English, not Anglo, but my first box was an 18-button Stagi miniature, which also has a lot of note limitations, and I've done all of those things.

Or play the tune in a different key, or play a different tune, or get a new concertina with more buttons. I've done all of those too.

[bmzane@hotmail.com]

thank you, kindly-----

[rascal]

Hi I too have a 20 button anglo and also 48 button English (I know I'm mad)there is a useful publication by a gut caled Roger Digby called "Faking it" its good source I found it at WWW.concertina.com/digby/index.htm it's worth the download has some good stuff in it. Hope this helps. Dave

[bmzane@hotmail.com]

Hi I too have a 20 button anglo and also 48 button English (I know I'm mad)there is a useful publication by a gut caled Roger Digby called "Faking it" its good source I found it at WWW.concertina.com/digby/index.htm it's worth the download has some good stuff in it. Hope this helps. Dave

[bmzane@hotmail.com]

thanks, Dave
I was so geeked to pick up a button box,
my emotion trumped my intelligence--