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  1. 8 hours ago, Łukasz Martynowicz said:

    I don’t understand this. Could you please elaborate?

    Well, it's a wish list but thinking it through,  I don't see how a master button would work other than on a melody.  However, if each button ( landing pad ) had multiple functions, like a little joystick. an 88 keyboard could be reduced to 52........😊

  2. 14 hours ago, Ubizmo said:

     If I play for an hour or so, I can still feel the increased pain the next morning.

     

     

     

     

    Playing for that long at a stretch, especially as a beginner,  is counterproductive at least for me.  Unless you're a cyborg your brain will be overwhelmed and stop processing after about 20 min. or so.  Roughly 20 min. every other day is optimum for my particular lump of grey matter.  With your sore arm I'd stop as soon as it starts to hurt.  Combine that with Alan's suggestion to play quietly to give both your brain and body a chance to recover.

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  3. 1 hour ago, IanD said:

    Hi Luke,

    it's Actually Hilda Dedic here (I'm the concertina player in our house) I have a jeffries duet which I think would be useful to transcribe so I can play it sensibly. (I mainly play an gd anglo 39 by Neville Crabb)

     

    Can I add it to your list of layouts if I work it all out or do you want to keep it just for anglos?

    If you need a note chart Nick Robertshaw's layout for a C core box is at at the Concertina Library

  4. I have one duet with Anglo style bellows and one with EC style.  The first give a bounce back or nudge upon bellows reversal which I like because it lends momentum to dance tunes and helps with quicker ornamentation.  With the other it seems like I must come to a full stop to reverse but that is useful also.  I like 'em both.  They're just different.  Thinking about it.... I play the first in a more closed position and use the push back to start triplets and such and the pull to start new phrases or modulations.  With the other I play more stretched out with altogether less bellows changes.  sorry I'm posting over you Robin.

  5. 6 hours ago, HansQ said:

     

     

    Adding a thumb strap is a good idea also. It not only improves stability but at the same time it makes it possible having the handstrap a bit looser without loosing control, and with the thumb acting as a pivot, rotating the hand within the handle to improve access to the whole keyboard.

     

    Many Anglos, if not most, including the Wren have thumb buttons for air or note pairs.  a thumb strap would seem to hinder this feature.

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  6. 1 hour ago, fred v said:

    I had studied the Muller idea which Holden built for him. The big deal with the buttons being that they don't stick up as high as is normal. This makes the button, when pushed, go down flush to the end plate. I accomplished the same thing by making 1/8" thick plates that fit over the button grouping. The feel of the buttons is now amazing!! I can slide my fingers up a fifth much easier and also cross finger easier. 

    This is a large part of it.  Shifting hand position and sliding fingers around is essential to the Jeff duet.  The taller buttons on the Wheatstone will tip away from the fingers and  then bind to resist the sideways/down vector pressure.  Thanx for this insight.

     

  7. My Jeffries duet has raised ends around the button area.  My Wheatstone JD does not.  This results in about a 16th of an inch difference in button height above the surface.  The Jeffries is easier to play, the Wheatstone stiffer.  I recall a discussion here about a builder incorporating nearly flush buttons (Muller?).  Perhaps playability has something to do with it.

  8. Yes. probably new pans with trad. reeds/shoes would be best but perhaps the Sherwood although good for the price isn't worthy.  I've figured out how to do an excellent JD of 30 buttons or so but I don't want to corrupt a vintage Instrument.  I have a beautiful pair of 6" Shakespeare ends (44 buttons) if I could find a donor box to put'em on!

  9. After retiring from the railroad I took a local seasonal job at a fish Hatchery.  After hauling 20' seine nets through the ponds all day,  I happened to open up the closet for some dry clothes and there were those two boxes I'd tucked away years ago.  "concertinas!" crashed into "nets@&)%" in my brain.  Voila.  This anecdote is "very nearly" true....😊

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