Daria
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This kid is amazing ! I have been following him on YouTube since I got my concertina.Does anyone know how to get a hold of his recordings? His band is Itchy Fingers.Just stumbled on this video.
No idea who the player is, but the playing is amazing. And it appears to be a humble 20 button Stagi Anglo.
The tune is a popular contra dance tune in these parts, rarely tried on concertina for obvious reasons.
He apparently is a concertina.net member but isn't active. Maybe someone across the pond knows him and can get him to post??
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Beautiful playing Bob! You make it look so easy.Here are some more swingy things. I recorded and uploaded them a couple weeks back, but neglected to post a link here and subsequently forgot about them.
"The Dapper's Delight" and "The Maid of the Mist" are hornpipes composed by the late Paddy O'Brien of Co. Tipperary (as opposed to Paddy O'Brien of Co. Offaly, also a fantastic tunesmith, and happily still with us). There's a brief introduction to his life and work at http://irishtunecomposers.weebly.com/paddy-obrien.html. I hadn't been aware of his close connection with Seamus Connolly, who ran the epic Monday night sessions at the Village Coach House in Brookline, Mass. where I first immersed myself in Irish tunes in the late '70s and early '80s.
I've never heard a Paddy O'Brien tune I didn't like. And one can never have too many hornpipes.
Bob Michel
Near Philly
Love the tunes too.
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How many buttons?
Is it possible to knit across the rows?
Traditional yarn or hybrid?
Ha ha
I now understand that was a trick question. You KNEW I knit up an Anglo Morse so you KNEW I had hybrid reeds. BUT it is knit with traditional wool not hybrid synthetic.
This is a stump the chump question
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Charlie- still available ?
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Thanks everyone for the great suggestions. I am going to digest them and work on them. It has been just one year since I have been playing the concertina, and I have only played at a few jams, so I am sure experience will help as well as your ideas.
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I was playing in a session last night with some friends-we had a fiddle, hammered dulcimer, guitar, bass, and me on my anglo concertina. A reliable source, (my husband:)) said that my concertina was often too loud, overpowering the other instruments. I would like some tips as to how to play more softly. I really could not detect that I was playing too loudly.
Should I play fewer notes?No chords? Don't use as much bellows? But then I lose the rhythm of the Anglo.
I'd appreciate any advice.
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Well ,I will need to defer the knitting across rows question to any irish players since they are known for their complex knitting patterns, but absolutely traditional wool, no hybrid synthetics, sorry.
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Hi Daria, the picture didn't come through. I'm guessing it's either a wooly hat or a scarf...I whipped this up to brave our sub zero(F) weather this week in the mountains of Pennsylvania. Would go nicely with the concertina earrings! PM me if you want the pattern
Sorry Alex
I reposted it under its own thread -see concertina hat. I will send you pattern in next day or so. Did you make the earrings using a laser printer? What metal did you use?
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Knit this up to brave the sub zero(F) weather we are having here in the Pennsylvania mountains.
Concertina hat-all systems. This is a Morse anglo G/D of course.
PM me if you want the pattern. I will write it out in the next day or so.
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I whipped this up to brave our sub zero(F) weather this week in the mountains of Pennsylvania.I made these Concertina-shaped earrings for my nieces' Christmas presents:
Would go nicely with the concertina earrings!
PM me if you want the pattern
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Here are two of my favorite swingy concertina tunes.
I originally learned "The Ebb Tide" from the wonderful playing of Jacqueline McCarthy on "The Wind among the Reeds," and my setting obviously owes a lot to hers, though I find that it's diverged a fair bit over the years (it's much swingier, for one thing). As for "The Flowing Tide," I have no idea where I got it; I suspect I just picked it up osmotically from hearing it at countless sessions.
The odd thing is that I've never heard anyone else play these two hornpipes together, though they'd make a lovely pair even without their complementary names.
Bob Michel
Near Philly
Really nice playing! Love your renditions of both the tunes and I especially like your back up guitar and mandolin.
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I was working on Galway Hornpipe, learned from a CD by Hugh and Colm Healy that I got for Christmas and the theme of the month turns out to be hornpipes. (Pardon my son the guitarist- he would only accompany me if I let him wear the mask -not sure why )
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Here is my attempt at Bourree d'Aurore Sand in Dm.
Would appreciate comments about tempo - not sure if I am too fast or too slow for a bourree(probably erratic but that is just me:()
Morse G/D Anglo
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A first pass at Bourrée d'Aurore Sand . Played in Am on a 30 button Lachenal/Dipper Anglo. Once without chording, a second time with some. Mostly I spent my time figuring out the down bass run on the B part, which was surprisingly challenging on the Anglo.
Really nice playing! I love your bass run -really sounds cool. I am just working in my version in Dm and wonder why I didn't learn in in Am like you.
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I think that the sound of the concertina in this tune is reminiscent of a pipe organ.
I am continually amazed at the big sound that such a little instrument can make!
Lo,How a rose E'er Blooming . First time through Jody Kruskal's arrangement. Second time through is my own.
Morse G/D Anglo
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Would highly recommend Buttonbox Morse.
Wonderful instruments with a smooth and easy action.
I started with a Stagi Wheatstone and switched to Jeffries.
It was not difficult and Buttonbox makes them to order so you can select whichever one you want.
Good luck.
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My simplified attempt:
I have not come across this type of tune before, it has been a struggle, posting now to give it and long suffering wife a rest. Have I put some extra beats at the end of the A parts.
Played on Wheatstone model 22. When I replaced the thumb straps I drilled some fresh holes to allow straps to be 1 button lower. Finger rests are fastened with just 2 screws, to match. It suits my large hands and can be reversed.
Very nice job. It was a struggle for me to learn too. And now we know what hambos are!
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I had no idea what a hambo was until this TOTM. (thought it was a type of soup
)It was REALLY hard for me to play this on my G/D Anglo in Dm but here it is:
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I have never played in the Irish style, and am not certain what it entails. I just played this melody only and tried to keep a good rhythm.Hope this qualifies as "Irish Style":)
https://soundcloud.com/ariaqueezehammer/merrily-kiss-the-quaker-3
You're making amazing progress on that Morse G/D!
Thanks so much. This TOTM forum has been such a good learning tool for me.
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I have never played in the Irish style, and am not certain what it entails. I just played this melody only and tried to keep a good rhythm.Hope this qualifies as "Irish Style":)
https://soundcloud.com/ariaqueezehammer/merrily-kiss-the-quaker-3
My second Irish selection I played in my usual harmonic style. I tried to have my Anglo G/D concertina sound like bagpipes. The song is often played much faster, but Ken Kolodner plays it on the hammered dulcimer in a slow , melodic style that I tried to emulate.
It is the March of the King of Laois
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I just love your version. I am trying to work up a version for my G/D Anglo and have been listening to your rendition to get some ideas. Thanks for posting.
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and thanks a lot Jim, Maki and Alex for attention and appreciation, I'm very glad my approach appears to be of interest for some...
Tradman, I can't and wouldn't aim for "ethnic" correctness; it's not that I would take informations and traditions not into my account, but I shan't convince myself that such tune, in 3/4, couldn't be played like this, in kind of a Mazurka style maybe? Whatever, it's the music that matters....
Best wishes - Wolf
Really nice job Wolf! I am still working on my submission . It is a hard key for me to play in .Thanks for the inspiration.
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Sorry for the posting problem. I was tired of being known as a number on Soundcloud so I changed my soundcloud to my name. Hopefully this will work.
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OK, this is the " TOTM not, concertina not'.
Tune has been stuck in my head and I needed to release it from my musical "to do" list, and my concertina is at the shop getting fixed. Hope no one minds, this month only, a hammered dulcimer fill in.
Tune Of The Month, Feb. 2015: Metsakukkia
in Tune of the Month
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