John, Wexford

Perhaps it was used to play with a set of C# Uilleann Pipes.

Charles Monod runs a podcast at this website "Tunes From Doolin . com " (no spaces). It might be worth contacting him in advance of your visit.

I am sure that you mean well, Simon, but rapidly alternating and reversing the notes G and A on a single button, whatever the row, will never work when playing Irish Traditional Music, even if played at a moderate or slow speed.

I love that tune of Dermot Lernihan's, the "Corofin Departure".

It is a long-established group, with a membership of well over 3,500 members.

Tim has a Facebook account and you could message him there directly.

The "nickname" is my description for the alternative name, and not anything formal.

I suppose you could say that, when it comes to Irish Traditional Music on the Anglo Concertina, the concertina has two names: the formal name, as in the names of the rows - G/D, C/G, D/A etc. and the "nickname." The nickname is usually one note above the first key, so a C/G would be a D or concert-pitch concertina. A C#/G# would be an E flat concertina, a B flat / F concertina would be a C concertina and an A flat / E flat concertina would be known as a B flat concertina.

Many current concertina makers will offer tuning options for their Anglo concertinas ranging from F/C right up to D/A.

I think things have changed in the aftermath of Covid-19.

I'm getting a "404 Not Found" error on this one.

An 18 month delay is a tad optimistic. I've been hearing of people who are waiting between 5 and 7 years for a concertina from Jürgen Suttner.

It looks gorgeous!

Hi Leah, The "superfast" AAA triplet is a giveaway that the player, and, (in this case), the composer Brenda Stubbert is a fiddle player, and so you will have to find alternative ornaments for this part of the tune. I'm sorry but I've never heard of the expression "regular-fast" to describe two successive A notes in a tune, but there is absolutely no need to alternate or use different bellows directions for these two notes. This is where the grace-notes come in handy, and, in this particular tune, a grace-note would also be on the beat. Here are some suggestions, but not exhaustive, to deal with those repeated A notes for the first part of this tune: Simon, Unfortunately, neither one-finger triplets, bellows reversals or bellows quivers will suffice for Irish Traditional Music, for obvious reasons. Regards, John.

You could just grace the first note of the second phrase.