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[Jim Besser]

HEre are two tunes I recently learned that are great fun on a C/G anglo:

Kohler's Hornpipe, in C. The B part is a real workout with alternative fingerings.

Pincushion Polka. In C, G and F! Wonderful, bouncy polka.
If anybody wants the ABC's I can send them.

[Henk van Aalten]

If anybody wants the ABC's I can send them.

Jim

Why not place them in the Tune-o-Tron at this website... Or even better, why not record them, place them somewehere on the internet and send us a link!

Henk

[JoachimDelp]

Dear Jim,

As Henk Says :

Please play it for us and record it and place in the Internet, sow e can leaarn it by ear.

(Ivcannot read ABC)

Don't be shy or lazy por both !

Thanks

Joachim

[Jim Besser]

>why not place them in the Tune-o-Tron at this website
>... Or even better, why not record them, place them somewehere
> on the internet and send us a link

Alas, I can't enter the tunes. I use an alternative browser, and the Concertina.net software won't allow me to access some functions, including uploading. But it's better than it was; it used to be I couldn't reply to messages!

If you want to do it yourself, here are the two tunes in ABC; just copy and paste to your own ABC collection. The version of Pincushion is slightly different from what I learned:

X: 81
T:Kohler's Hornpipe
M:C
L:1/8
Q:230
C:Traditional
S:Kohler's Repository
R:Hornpipe
Z:posted by John Erdman 4/98
K:C
G2|"C"c2cB cdef|"C"g^fga "C7"gedc|"F"A^GAB cdcA|"C"GEcA "C7"GECE|
"F"FEFG AGAB|"C"cBcd "A7"egag|"Dm"fedc "F"Ac"G7"Bd|"C"eccB c2:|
|:g2|"C"egcg egcg|"G"dgBg dgBg|"Am"ceAe ceAe|"Em"GcEc "C7"GcEc|
"F"FEFG AGAB|"C"cBcd "A7"egag|"Dm"fedc "F"Ac"G7"Bd|"C"eccB c2:|


X: 71
T:Pincushion Polka
R:Polka
M:2/4
L:1/16
K:C
e2|efg2 gag2|c'2e2 g4|a2d2 f4|g2c2 e4|
efg2 gag2|c'2e2 g4|a2d2 f2B2|c2e2 c2:|
K:G
z2|d2d2 c'4|b2b2 g4|abc'2 d2f2|g2b2 d4|
d2d2 c'4|b2b2 g4|abc'2 d2g2|a2g2 g2:|
K:C
z2|efg2 gag2|c'2e2 g4|a2d2 f4|g2c2 e4|
efg2 gag2|c'2e2 g4|a2d2 f2B2|c2e2 c2:|
K:F
z2|C2F2 F2A2|BcBA GAB2|C2G2 G2AG|F2d2 c4|
C2F2 F2A2|BcBA GAB2|C2G2 G2AG|F2A2 F2:|

[JoachimDelp]

I cannot read the ABC version, will anyway try to learn it.
But sincerely until I will learn to play it, will pass long time.

It is only halfway a joke, and I say it with a big smile :

I am keen to listen to you. And I propose record on a tape if you do not have a MD Recorder.

We shall put it into the Internt for you.

There is no more excuse !

[JoachimDelp]

Jim,
never have used the smileys before and this escaped my control

Please Jim, takle your bocx and play for us !

Joachim

[JimLucas]

Alas, I can't enter the tunes. I use an alternative browser, and the Concertina.net software won't allow me to access some functions, including uploading.

Upload?!! With abc notation I just copy and paste from whatever I used on my own machine. It's only text.

[Jim Besser]

>Upload?!! With abc notation I just copy and paste from whatever
> I used on my own machine. It's only text.

I've been using ABC for years and know it's "only text." But to put a tune on the Tune-A-Tron, you have to register to have access to the upload or cut/paste facility, or whatever it is. That's what I can't get to.

You have to do the same thing when you send a message on the forums, but for some reason this now works with alternative browsers (it didn't before, with the old system), but the Tune-A-Tron does not. Even now, when I'm obviously signed in to send this message, I can't go to the Tune-a-tron and get an add-tune window.

[JimLucas]

Even now, when I'm obviously signed in to send this message, I can't go to the Tune-a-tron and get an add-tune window.

Logging into the "new" (now only) Forums and the "old" other parts of Concertina.net are independent processes. Go to http://www.concertina.net/, select "Sign In", sign in (with your old id & password, if they're different from your Forum ones), and then go to the Tune-O-Tron and see if it works for you.

[Jim Besser]

>Logging into the "new" (now only) Forums and the "old" other parts of
> Concertina.net are independent processes. Go to http://www.concertina.net/, >select "Sign In", sign in (with your old id & password, if they're different from your >Forum ones), and then go to the Tune-O-Tron and see if it works for you.

Done all that, doesn't work. It WILL work if I switch to my old computer and Internet Explorer, but I don't use that program on my main computer and don't wish to.

But as you point out, it's easy enough to post ABCs as text in messages, which is why I did that initially.

[Henk van Aalten]

Jim

I have placed the two tunes in the Tune-O-Tron. I like them very much and I think that Kohler's Hornpipe combines very well with "Off to California".

Henk

[Jim Besser]

>I have placed the two tunes in the Tune-O-Tron. I like them very much and I >think that Kohler's Hornpipe combines very well with "Off to California".

Thanks!

I learned Pincushion from a fiddler who sort of slides up to the high C, which gives the tune a wonderful lift. She copied it from Rodney Miller's "Airplang ll" CD. (no, that's not a typo). He's a wonderful New England fiddler. I've never encountered a recording of Kohler's, just played it in sessions. But I think it's a particularly interesting tune on concertina.

[ldpaulson]

Love Rodney Miller's music and just about anything on theGreat Meadow Music label. Consistently good music by all their artists, which now also includes Frank Ferrel. Wild Aspargus, which has been mentioned in another thread, is on this label as well.

ldp

[JoachimDelp]

Thank you Jim Besser, thank you Henk,
I have just listened the two fun tunes. I like them and certainly will try to learn them.
Nobody wantys to play it on the concertina and put it in the Internet ?
Courage !

Must I do iot some day ?

Thank you idp for the info about the Great Meadow Music Label.
Joachim

[Jim Besser]

>Nobody wantys to play it on the concertina and put it in the Internet ?
>Courage !

Courage is great, but I think I'll get a little better on these tunes before recording them! Both are works in progress for me, you might say.

I think this issue was first raised about Ashoken Farewell. Isn't that the one people wanted to hear a recording of? That I could do without the need for courage.

[JoachimDelp]

I shall wait than ? Patiently !
Regards