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Gregor Markič

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  1. Do I qualify as a concertina lover if there's more money in this picture than in my car? I had my old Wren and Swan tuned this week and it's a priceless feeling. To my much astonishment one of the reed in Swan totaly broke off 😬

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  2. Monday this week it arrived, Clare concertina from the Irish concertina company. I can't express my happyness, although the second day I noticed with astonishment it had different button layout than what I was used to. I even wrote a complaint e-mail (stupid me😆), but I was kindly told that such was the standard layout for a mid range concertina and a professional. Now I'm learning to play on it. In only few days I see I can gain a lot by playing a high quality concertina instead of what I have been playing from my beginnings in january 2020- from the cheapest china-made groanboxes and later McNeela Wren and Swan beginner's concertinas (which I still dearly love).

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  3. Italian television miniseries 1982 on Pinocchio. The beautiful song of Geppetto- the carpenter who made / father of Pinocchio. Funnily, as I was browsing for pictures I found out that in Disney version the old carpenter played a concertina. I have no intention to watch the Disney version since there is a masterpiece of Roberto Benigni from 2002 (Benigni played the role of Pinocchio) and now after 18 years on 20 December this year another version is coming out in which Benigni plays Geppetto. 

     

  4. Another slovene classics. A pop song from the 60's. Lyrics very beautiful, see my amatorial translation:

    Among sincere people

    it never happens that

    a lie prevails.

    While among other people

    it is bad

    to confess too much.

    Since the dawn of this world

    such and such people lived.

    You get to know a person

    when he betrays you.

    But until then you know little.

     

    Among sincere people

    all things are simple

    like a clear-skied day.

    Yet there are some

    who find it boring

    if the world is harmonious.

    And if you think

    that it's boring if there is no lie

    go and follow it.

    Oh, might I tomorrow morning

    wake up among sincere people.

     

     

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  5. Now my son son he plays these stupid computer games and listens the so-called music in them. This music is of course total nuisance (as they lack taste these young generations IMHO). So I undertook and made a recording to be just for a few minutes a cool dad. The little pest says I shouldn't have omitted burps.

    Here you can listen 10-hours version of this tragic music:

     

  6. There are many, these songs have long and interesting stories, some are imported from  Spanish civil war others from Russia. Concertina is just the right instrument for us leftists to take to the woods, where to sing the songs and from where to shoot at nazis 🙂

    The first shall be: Hej tovariši pod orožje vsi (Hey camerads, take your arms)

     

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