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Up for sale again currently on Buy and Sell Nice sound.
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Nice sound and playing You can get a long way on a 20 button!
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New Concertina Recording
michael sam wild replied to Jim Munro's topic in General Concertina Discussion
I enjoyed the CD Jim -
A Concertina Maker In Ennis Co Clare
michael sam wild replied to pete_morrison's topic in Instrument Construction & Repair
PM me for his telephone and email -
That's really neat I'll use it when teaching my grandkids, Thanks!
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C.net Member's Mail Account Hacked?
michael sam wild replied to PeterT's topic in General Concertina Discussion
Blast! I just sold my Jeffries and sent the money cash in an envelope.I am so gullible -
I phoned too . She has had lots of phone calls today 'not what I want on a Monday morning'! Tracey is genuine but the scammer/hacker has listed loads of things on their eBay site. They were after people sending money to them .
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hi all! new to the box...
michael sam wild replied to fearfeasog's topic in General Concertina Discussion
Great to hear you have stuck at it . The key now is playing with others and making muisc together. The slow session is a real way to encourage each other. A lot of people play too fast anyway. I like playing along to Cds of older dance related musicians. You can always use the slowdowner facilities on the computer too. Nice work! -
New Concertina Recording
michael sam wild replied to Jim Munro's topic in General Concertina Discussion
just sent PM -
Sad news Dirge. Pete was a character and always very knowledgeable and helpful. We met up all over the place and he was always full of energy and interested in a whole range of things.His knowledge of portable recording devices was impressive and certainly helped me. Condolences to his family. Dirge, I was pleased when you played his favourite Nimrod Variations at the Swaledale meet in the Reeth Hall, I for one had tears in my eyes rembering the larger than life character of Peter O'Brien. He marched to the beat of his own drum! .
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At the excellent Swaledale Squeeze last weekend Cormac Begley mentioned Steve Cooney the Australian guitarist now resident in Ireland.( ex Stockton's Wing etc) and his pedagogic PhD project on geometric visualisation in helping youngsters learn music more intuitively. Has anyone any experience or can give me some leads. Steve Cooney is not too 'visible' on web sites. Cormac uses a lot of chords in his Anglo playing and was very helpful with which ones to use and how to introduce them into playing. Look out for any of his concerts or workshops.
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Just in case people haven't seen this, here's a nice piece of historic recording from 1972. Over Half a lifetime of playing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVU3pSHQcFE
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New Tutor - Anglo Concertina In The Harmonic Style
michael sam wild replied to gcoover's topic in Teaching and Learning
I got it very quickly from Amazon. Well done Gary , a labour of love obviously. -
New Tutor - Anglo Concertina In The Harmonic Style
michael sam wild replied to gcoover's topic in Teaching and Learning
Nice to hear it's done Gary. I'll be off to Amazon! -
New Concertina Recording
michael sam wild replied to Jim Munro's topic in General Concertina Discussion
Sounds great to hear an accomplished player with a range of genres and instruments. Let us know when the CD is out. I always like to buy a tangible recording and some sleeve notes ! Best wishes -
Concertina Cruinniú
michael sam wild replied to Dan Worrall's topic in General Concertina Discussion
Just sending a PM -
A Major Scale Fingering Choices On C/g Anglo
michael sam wild replied to LHMark's topic in Teaching and Learning
I approach it by finding where the best chord positions are A,D,E major and 1,5 chords usually. Even for faster tunes the chords help tunes along. George Garside of melodeon.net advises people to play familiar tunes in G in the key of A which I found helpful as you go more naturally for the best positions and bellows directions Since I got my D/A anglo I find I'm playing all te time in A as it has such a great sound for fiddle and pipe tunes and you can use pull and push A chords to good effect for banjo type tunes -
As you say, mainly by rearranging with a few retuned and some recycled. I think if the old players had them in D/G or D/A they'd have been delighted if they wanted to play their familiar, economic style with flute or fiddle players. Why make it hard! I use mine and the C/G as and when appropriate. A bit like I do melodeon and button accordion When I use them for singing accompaniment tey allow a fuller selection
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That works fine if you have the ear and others like it. I'm sure it's what a lot of old trad players did and it can lead to good unexpected chords too. But I]'d work on single note playing too to get the melody crisp .I wondered where you'd gone !
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Concertina Cruinniú
michael sam wild replied to Dan Worrall's topic in General Concertina Discussion
It can't be sent. maybe you have blocked messages or your box is full. You could send me your emal address via messaging on conc net -
Concertina Cruinniú
michael sam wild replied to Dan Worrall's topic in General Concertina Discussion
Peter I've sent a PM