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    Tune Of The Month For July 2013: Roslyn Castle

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    Common session tunes might be a possiblity. But the hard core ITM folks might find them too common.

    Here one small list;

    Kid on the Mountain
    Out in the Ocean
    Connaughtman’s Rambles
    Tripping Up the Stairs
    Kesh Jig
    Cooley’s Reel
    Silver Spear
    Old Copperplate
    The Sally Gardens
    Mountain Road
    Lilting Banshee
    Inisheer
    Si Bheag Si Mhor
    Blarney Pilgrim

    From The Session http://thesession.org/discussions/25239

     

    I can play many on a whistle but my concertina fu is far behind.

    Tune Of The Month For July 2013: Roslyn Castle

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    Jody, I agree with everything you said except this:

    1) The second chord in measure 3 is Ab diminished in your key of D? Every time you play it my ear rebels.

    The chord makes perfect sense in D minor if you think of it not as an Ab diminished but a G# diminished. G#-B-D-F. It's essentially an E7 chord (five of five) with the E raised to an F to add tension (and isn't that what diminished chords are all about?).

     

    Another way of saying... vii/V is a substitution for V/V. And, of course, V/V is a substitution for ii.

     

    So, you can think of vii/V as a chromatic substitution for ii, where ii usually leads to V in the circle-of-fifths.

     

    Lots of brilliant playing.

    I've got some questions and I ask all of you to forgive me if they are completely stupid.

    Occasionally the players mention what type of concertina is being used, but not always.

    Could folks mention the type as a matter of course? Most recording sound like ECs to my untrained ear.

     

    Where do you find information on cord notations such as V/V, vii/V?

    Thanks!

    Suggestions For Future Tunes Of The Month

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    If we are deviating from folk and dance music, may I suggest this Polish-Russian classic tango: "Ostatnia niedziela" by Mieczysław Fogg. The dots can be found online for free. This piece is very popular amongst polish accordion players. The melody isn't all that difficult, but the downside is that it requires fully chromatic instrument, so Elise and 20-button-Anglo players would be excluded. That includes me as well..

     

    Nice tune, do you know if it fits on a 32 button anglo?

     

    I'm sure that all the notes of the melody can be found, though I'm not sure how easy the fingering would be. And you would probably have to get "creative" with harmony/chords.

     

    You won't have to worry about me being creative.

    I'm barely managing a decent single line melody.

    Suggestions For Future Tunes Of The Month

    in Tune of the Month

    Posted

    If we are deviating from folk and dance music, may I suggest this Polish-Russian classic tango: "Ostatnia niedziela" by Mieczysław Fogg. The dots can be found online for free. This piece is very popular amongst polish accordion players. The melody isn't all that difficult, but the downside is that it requires fully chromatic instrument, so Elise and 20-button-Anglo players would be excluded. That includes me as well...

     

    Here is one of original recordings from 1936: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-hg58QQmdc

     

    And here is an absolutely crazy arrangement by Gideon Kremer himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C071-M1e5Vk

     

    But as Geoff pointed out, all those non-folk entries require substantially longer practice time and are not well suited for a monthly contest. So maybe it would be wise to come up with some sort of tune-of-the-quarter for advanced tunes and keep TOTM relatively simple. For all those players outside of UK and US it's often the only "place" where one can actually learn something directly from other players - there are almost no concertina players in central and eastern Europe..

     

    BTW: if someone knows a nice tango that can be played without G#'s and D#'s and could share the dots I would appreciate that... :)

    Nice tune, do you know if it fits on a 32 button anglo?

    Buy My First Concertina...

    in General Concertina Discussion

    Posted

    Nothing on the Wren that I could find in three pages of google search.

    You could try it yourself, wren+concertina on Google.

    All I came up with was advertisements. Not that it makes it bad, just uncommon.

    I looked hard at the Rochelle myself, but I got a deal from a local lady (God Bless Her and Keep Her) on a Marcus.

    Buy My First Concertina...

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    Dipper

    in Buy & Sell

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    The Tennessee listing and the price in GBP seems more than a little hinkey.

    In the description, "He has never found any fault with this instrument...only he is too slow!"

    A not a native speaker of American English I'd wager.

    New Concertina Recording

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    I purchased the CD and was delighted to to find that a free down load was included in the price.

    Unfortunately my tablet (Kindle Fire HD) doesnt support the download....ahhhhhh.

     

    Still, Im very much looking foward to listening to the anglo played in multiple genres!

    Cant wait till th disc comes.

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