
Timv
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Ah yes, I completely agree about the voice not being strong enough for this.
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What do you think about this version? I love the added instrumentals.
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The devil plays a concertina on the cover of John Prine's record Lost Dogs + Mixed Blessings
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Alan Lochhead - Summer Symphony book for Anglo
Timv replied to gcoover's topic in Teaching and Learning
I got my copy a few days ago and I started working on The Entertainer over the weekend. You surely weren't kidding about this book being much more challenging than the others. I do appreciate the challenge, though! -
Beautiful !
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To prevent concertinas from dust
Timv replied to wakasaobama's topic in General Concertina Discussion
Hopefully it's not as angry as Ohmu -
When I take apart my 30 button concertina I use tweezers. I try to line maybe one row of buttons onto the plate and apply a small amount of pressure on the plate, just to keep all buttons slightly pressed into the plate. Then I go from button to button with the tweezers and nudge them into the holes. This way I don't have to hold the concertina upside down and I find it's easier to see what I'm doing.
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Yes, it is. The music played here is Jody's and the person playing the concertina in the video was motion captured by him.
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Thanks for the tip. Sadly, it seems that the concertina is really rare to find in the game. I did spot another one in the St. Denis train station one time.
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Considering a Wren 2 C/G Anglo
Timv replied to CaliforniaPikeMan's topic in General Concertina Discussion
Congratulations, it's a good concertina to fall in love with. -
That's a good find. I was just watching another one of the instrument making videos, it's a fascinating tradition. Although not really a playable instrument, I found this one interesting: It's what shepherds used to make just for fun. I did however found this polka: This page is just what I've been looking for!
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A youtube search brought me to this page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvREJUMEC9tG4kGtPKL_1yQ/videos which has a huge number of videos and looks very promising.
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This type of accordion is more or less the national instrument of Slovenia. How this music could be played on a concertina I have no idea. The playing is fast, but luckily I think most songs are in the key of C, which should work perfectly with the C/G anglo.
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Jody, wow what an exhaustive list! Thank you so much for taking the time. although I have a friend with a banjo and another with an electric bass, we just can't seem to find a timeslot where we could get together at this time. In the meantime, I started to arrange some popular music from the 60s (we call them evergreens), but it's slow work. I will post some recordings once I'm proficient enough. The problem here is that it's very hard to find anything written down, and as far as I know there are no music events where that kind of music can be heard, but I will keep my eyes open. Folkloric dancing is very strong here in Slovenia, and I've found recordings, plus I have some friends who are into it, but I need to explore this a bit more. A friend however sent me this video: A nice dancing tune is played from around 5 minute mark onwards, which could be nice to play, but I haven't tried it yet. This recording is from Rezija, which is culturally Slovenian, but is now a part of Italy. This is a very good list that I haven't seen yet. I will check them out, thanks! As for this specific style of music, it's something I (and many young people here) am not interested in. It's overplayed and sadly you get sick of it from hearing it everywhere. There are, of course, exceptions here, and I will attach one of my favorite songs: Thank you for your effort, Jody. I will keep on working towards finding songs I enjoy playing and will report back with recordings once I get satisfying results (although this might take a while).