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Nice! The harmony and triplets make this a bit more interesting, and the end of the second line is a good example of planning ahead with finger placement to allow smooth playing. FYI, I think there's a pull indicator missing in measure 14.
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Praise the Lord and Pass the Concertina
Steve Schulteis replied to gcoover's topic in Teaching and Learning
I'm happy to announce that Praise the Lord and Pass the Concertina is now available on Kindle! -
Praise the Lord and Pass the Concertina
Steve Schulteis replied to gcoover's topic in Teaching and Learning
That's in the plan. I'm a bit busy at the moment (tis the season), but it should be available shortly after the holidays. -
"Real-time" simply means that a result must arrive before some deadline in order to be considered correct. It's up to the developer to determine what the deadline should be, and it will depend on the context. 50 ms may be fine for trading (I wouldn't know), but it would be much too slow for generating MIDI events in response to button presses.
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For an Anglo, C/G is unquestionably the correct key for a starter instrument. As a harmonic player, 30 buttons would be ideal, but if you have to cut it down, 24 buttons with the Wheatstone layout would be a good compromise. That gets you the most important accidentals on LH 5a and RH 1a, and the most important reversals on LH 4a and RH 2a.
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Traditional English Session Tunes
Steve Schulteis replied to gcoover's topic in Teaching and Learning
My issue with concertina tab in ABC is that the bellows indications can't be continuous. Obviously that doesn't bother everyone, but I think the continuous lines provide a clearer indication of bellows changes in addition to per-note direction. Congrats on yet another book, Gary! You've got quite the library at this point! -
Praise the Lord and Pass the Concertina
Steve Schulteis replied to gcoover's topic in Teaching and Learning
Thanks, Dan! I do plan to be at Old Pal, and I'll look forward to seeing you there! -
Praise the Lord and Pass the Concertina
Steve Schulteis replied to gcoover's topic in Teaching and Learning
Thanks, Gary! I'm thrilled to have finally finished this book and very pleased with how it turned out. Looking back, this project effectively began during covid and its aftermath, and it has often been a blessing to be immersed in these songs as I worked on my arrangements of them. I hope this book brings peace and joy to others as it has to me. -
That's what I would do. It certainly won't hurt.
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Hello from Iowa! I don't do anything special with my concertinas - they live in the same rooms I do and regularly travel out of the house. I have sometimes had to do minor maintenance in the spring and fall, but nothing too dramatic. I do avoid sudden swings in temperature and humidity, especially moving from the cold into warm, humid air, which could produce condensation (don't want those reeds to rust!). When I need to move my concertina between conditions like that, I let it adjust for a while in its case first. As long as you account for that, I think you'll do well following the same regimen as for your guitars.
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If you're already used to the Wheatstone layout, it might be a bit of an adjustment, but otherwise I wouldn't consider Jeffries layout to be a problem. The differences are only in the top row of the right hand. Many of the arrangements in Gary's books will work without modification, and nearly all of them can be played with just a few simple changes (mostly 1a and 2a moving to 2a and 3a/5a, respectively). You do lose the notes D#6, F6, and A6, but those are rarely used and not worth staying on a less satisfying instrument in my opinion. Compare them at anglopiano.com and judge for yourself.
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MIDI concertina III: the load cell version
Steve Schulteis replied to caj's topic in Instrument Construction & Repair
One more idea that I've been kicking around: a string potentiometer. -
E minor (anglo, harmonic style)
Steve Schulteis replied to Leah Velleman's topic in General Concertina Discussion
The latter. For example, on a C/G, playing "defg" along the C row would involve switching bellows direction for every note. But you might choose to use the pull e on the left hand and the pull g in the third row to play the whole phrase on the pull instead. -
E minor (anglo, harmonic style)
Steve Schulteis replied to Leah Velleman's topic in General Concertina Discussion
It's referring to finding the same note with the opposite bellows direction. Unlike English or duet layouts where it's the same button, on Anglo it's always in some other place, if it exists at all. The third row on a 30-button contains a couple buttons dedicated to these "reversals", but they can also be found across the other two rows as well.