Lester Bailey

Your wish is my command. Hopefully its attached below

From Adam Hart-Davis's website "Another fierce dispute arose in 1841 over the electric clock, first invented by a shepherd from Caithness, Alexander Bain, who took his idea to Professor Sir Charles Wheatstone, hoping for influential and financial support. Wheatstone dismissed Bain’s clock as a waste of time, but three weeks later went to the Royal Society to demonstrate 'his' new invention, the electric clock. He got his comeuppance, however. Invited to give a Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution, Wheatstone became so nervous that he ran away. Ever since then, the speakers have been locked up for an hour beforehand, to prevent them from 'doing a Wheatstone"

Alison says "Thank You" probably

Fabulous session, good pub, good people, good music. Unfortunately the 240 mile round trip will make me rare visitor. If you can make it I thoroughly recommend it. My count of concertinas was 2 anglos and 3 English.

The best place in the whole world for tunes is JC's Tune Finder. It has 32 matches for the battering Ram

Found it! Its Here

Depends on where your looking, in Ireland the Anglo, for multipart band playing the English, in Morris Dancing the Anglo, in my house the English. This is probably no help at all. Somewhere in this forum is a map of the world with the C.net players and their preferences shown but I'm unable to find it. Sure someone else will point you in the right direction

Bugger I will be traveling back from Yeovil next Monday and Freshford is near enough on the way but the wrong Monday. Good Luck with your session.

I'm British! we don't talk to strangers especially foreigners

We need a method of spotting fellow concertina.net chums. I came and watched Toronto when they danced at the Red Lion, coleshill as part of the Greensleeves Weekend, would have been great to have made the connection.

Gold-plated concertinas? Nanette The concertinas belong to Terry who is playing treble in the picture, he got them from the Faire Four Sisters who played the Music Halls. He has two sets of two trebles, one tenor and a bass, all Aeolas. Don't you just hate some people

Aldbury Morris are almost totally concertina and English as well. Go here to have a look piccy

Try Audacity which does the slowing down and its free. Available here.

You might like to try Audacity from here. It does the slowing down and key changing but also does multi track recording and its FREEWARE. I'm having great fun multi tracking concertina and melodeon tunes for my own amusement.

Didn't mean to imply its like that in Ireland most of the bad stuff on The Session seems to be from either the UK or the USA. I expect the Irish are far more laid back about it all.

It has alway struck me a strange that Irish sessions seem to require so many rules about speed, how many times through, only jigs or only reels and no English tunes (or concertinas) etc. I visit The Session from time to time and they seem obsessed with rules including one long thread about how it was not possible to play ITM (yukk!) on an English concertina as the Anglo was was the TRADITIONAL instrument for Irish tunes???? The mostly English sessions I go to are more than happy for anyone to play anything (even Irish tunes). We don't have slow sessions we have sessions where beginners are welcome and can have their 5 minutes of glory and then join in as best they can with all the rest. It's the way I learned and seems to me to be a nicer way around things.

Described as a 48 key Jefferies anglo but is it a duet?? I play English so I know nothing Look here

I agree with Jim that the "best" way to play a concertina is stood up. You can then play it with your whole body. If you look at the likes of John Kirkpatrick and Alistair Anderson when they play their instuments its from from the toes up. Your mileage will almost certainly vary.

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Than to be introduced to a whole bunch of hot, sweaty, younger (they are younger, right?) men? .... Not much, I guess. Unfortunately the Toronto Morris Men were there who were all younger, fitter etc etc. Mind you they danced in white shoes

"Modesty"... is that what you call your "better half"? I find the concept of me having a better half somewhat strange If you are refering to my lady wife, it was our 28th wedding aniversary yesterday and I took out to see some Morris danncing, what more could a girl wish for!

And they had the pictures for the tenor and treble the wrong way round til some handsome, knowledgable contertina player poited it out. Modesty of course does not permit me to name him .

Maybe the only one on your continent but when out with Aldbury Morris last night one of the locals bought her concertina along as we were there and it was a Jefferies Duet. She played it for us and it was a fine sounding instrument but when she explained the fingering I was totally lost.

Bob What sort of price?