michael sam wild
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Hs father taught him So what dances did he play for?Fiddle, pipes and pipe and tabor would be played before the concertina
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This probably applies to most tricky trad tunes. In Irish tunes I find it fascinating how the twist in the penultimate bars , usually in the B part is often so tricky and brings the tunes to a nice resolution. Once you've wrestled with it and grasped it it comes more easily but can drive you mad. It's like following the foliate illustration in 'celtic' manuscript illustration or unravelling a knotted ball of yarn. How many tune titles allude to this mental exercise?
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That must have been a great school,mending concertina bellows or was it a sweatshop?
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Hi Chris, knees, ankles and fingers all warn of bad weather. It's going to rain today
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Always helps to go on The Session web site and phone or email of a contact given. I've found some blinders
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All the best! In 2000 I nearly severed my little finger on the left hand on a broken glass when serving in the pub! I concentrated on the Anglo to get the finger working again and never went back to melodeon. The finger is fine, just aches in this wet weather.
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A lovely CD I got one from Ralphie at Bradfield the other year
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I agree with the comment that the old German made instruments were the basis of a lot of folk music. Many a good tune played on an old squeezebox, whether melodeon or concertina. You can always sell them on and move on up.
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Hi Dirge, I'm a bit of a technohoper too but am impressed by the speed and ease of these new phones. The Google thing puts up jpeg images of the dots that are to be found.
Siman, thanks for the info, I was an old Luddite but I can see the use . I am seriously thinking of a new phone , if only because they seem to be able to do all the things my varety of appliances did. Rather than buy a new compact camera or reocrding devie etc I| think I'll go for all in one phone.
What I'll do with my drawer full of DAT recorders, compact disc recorders, reel to reel, cassette recorders and SLRs etc etc I don't know.
Now if that larger size pull out 'scroll 'type LED screen were available so I could see it clearly as the old eyes peg out! I'm sure there's one out htere as I don't fancy lugging an iPad about
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Could anyone explain the databases this app uses to identify tunes, can it search the whole web? By the way I find Google images a good way of finding dots for tunes as it also seems to trawl quite effectively.
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Thanks John that was helpful! So, if I understand it, I have been unconsciously unconscious of what I intended and am now consciously conscious of what I am doing. Now to make it unconciously concious and all should be well! That's learning for you. Hope the concertina understands
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Fair enough Jim but that's what it feels like and as other fingers strike the end plate too and it's what I intend it works
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At Swaledale Harry had a twin reed Bastari, that's what they call them specifically and generically over there. He said contact them in Italy
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An Anglo player will use percussive finger movement to get more attack on the push, as that forces the bellows in, obviously not the same on buttons/reeds that play on the draw
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Anglo International has some of Bertram and friends, tracks including Paddy Rocker.
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Thanks Steve.He was so prolific in his work and his creative contributions such as Tam Lin, Sovay Sovay, Jack Orion , Recruited Collier,Blackwater Side, Hand Weaver and the Factory Maid, etc etc, along with McColl's work have added to the gene pool of 'Traditional' song. Nowadays nobody questions the tweaking of old material, they do tend to admit it nowadays as we have so much more access to original material and 'informants'
By the way , I was intrigued to see the reference to singer Louie Hooper of Langport . I didn't know she played concertina. On page 270 is a mention that Cecil Sharp bought her a concertina , now on display at Cecil Sharp House .She was recorded in 1941 by BBC producer Douglas Cleverdon
edited 14 June to rectify some confusion
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The long awaited book by Dave arthur has just come out. It's published by Pluto Press. For concertina players there is some interesting material on Alf Edwards who accompanied a lot of early 1950s revivalists on his EC. The account of the filming of Moby Dick was excellent. bert liked the concertina because of its perceived authenticity for accompanying traditional songs, which was by the 50s at least not the case.
On page 282 Lloyd is quoted as writing in a sleeve note that the concertina was no more traditoinal than a guitar or any other portable instrument. He thought it suited his kind of song and interfered less with the rhythm.
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I've wondered why the concertina (Anglo) didn't survive in folk music in the States , maybe for te same reasons as in England , they couldn't play the new forms of popular music as readily on the simpler German diatonic instrument, or maybe an image thing
When I've taken a melodeon or an anglo to 'old timey' American sessions in England i've had some initially cool reactions. Not because of my musical sensitivity or virtuosity I must hasten to add
But I soemtimes see the same looks when a Piano Accordion player goes into an 'Irish' session. Conservatism sets in when music becomes codified whereas new forms of music are often very inclusive -
Thanks folks so many things to get right then! What about the reed chamber shape and dimensions? radial v rectangular?
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My C/G seems to have been tuned up from a Bb/F
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Great clips Bertram. I just ordered it no problem and look forward to receiving it. It should help with the book I got earlier in the year.
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Thanks any more information ?
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What is the most responsive concertina our readers have ever played, not necessarily owned?
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Thanks Rob. I really enjoyed the Lewes workshop and as an Anglo player would urge players of all systems to get there. Nice area and steeped in traditional music! I can recommend local sessions for anyone staying over the weekend
Concertinas in the Cinema
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I saw a video on TV yesterday in an interview with Paul Heaton of the band Beautiful South they had a concertina player on Rotterdam, I think it was.