Lester Bailey
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the same seller is currently listing 3 separate jeffries concertinas
the asking price on all 3 is £4750. None have photos. The descriptions are minimal.
It is the same seller advertising the Dipper, though there is a more extensive description in that case.
- John Wild
If you go to melodeon.net you can find more info on these concertinas, and some melodeons, they appear to be legit.
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As it is a cheapy accordion reeded boxI would use vinyl valves easiest sourced from Charlie Marshall
http://www.cgmmusical.co.uk/CGM_Musical_Services/Reed_Valves.html
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Katie and John Howsen who were both in the Old Hat Dance Band can be contacted through the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust
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In the past I found that for light rust, a brass suede brush can be effective.Supported as you suggest and only brushed from base to tip.
I like using a polishing block for the final cleaning. These have a gentle action, but can remove quite heavy rust and leave a nice clean and smooth finish, and no fibres to get stuck in the reed or in your lungs.
I'm with Theo, just finished sorting a badly rusted set of melodeon reeds with one of these blocks. Quick and provides good finish.
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David,
Forgive my ignorance -- I've never played an English, but isn't it monotonal and therefore doesn't need an air button?
B
An English does not "need" an air button but may well have one. Useful at the end of tunes for closing the bellows but I just press a big handful of buttons, less elegant but everyone knows I've finished
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ITM is not a genre it is a living music which can still be added to, it is not a dead historical thing like English
folk.
You must go to different English sessions to me then, seems alive and well where I am :-)
I had always thought that Irish people had avoided the exclusive nastiness that sometimes ruins the English
folk music scene, I see now that they have not.
Don't recognise this either but this tread seems indicative of the ranting that always surrounds Irish music and its proponents (combatants)
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If all you want is to pick up a few irish, english, scottish tunes and play for fun now and then, any type of concertina will do, otherwise I'd say it would be an advantage to pick the anglo.
I try my best to stay out of ITM discussions but this is probably the condescending statement I have read here in years.
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Emmanuel Pariselle plays his native music on a Franglo.
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Al
What we used is a behind the ear inductive loop from Connevans powered by a Skytronic Battery Guitar Amp. The amp just connects to a standard dulciner pickup. Hope this helps.
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The only real problem I have so far found is playing along with other people, particularly if I don't arrive early enough to choose where I sit. I have had some disheartening experiences of not being able to hear myself play or even really many other people.
QL
My lady wife is a hammer dulcimer player and wear hearing aids. She is quite happy to play on her own with just the aids but gets lost when other players join in. So I have miked up the dulcimer and connected an inductive loop box to it and she plays with one aid listening to the world and one on the loop and that seems to solve most her problems.
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Will the app run on a version 1 touch via headphones?
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At the bottom left of the page there is a drop down that allows you to select a LoFi version which fits better on a mobile and loads faster
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the answer must lie in the bellows, it must be perfectly possible to copy any system of diatonic accordeon and reverse in the same place.
The player has a choice of DG, C#D, BC, or CC#, all sound bouncy.
is BC the most common, does anyone have a chart of which notes are in and out for the BC accordeon?
Melodeon.net does
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hi
I'm using Firefox and haven't noticed an issue.
chris
edited to say that there still seems to be no issue using Firefox, both in the initial post or in this 'edit' using 'the full edit'
chris
I'm also using Firefox and sometimes I get the overlay and sometimes I don't.
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Probably been done to death, but why is an Anglo a "Traditional" instrument for Irish music when most of it was written long before the instrument was invented
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I like playing Irish music (among other kinds), to the best of my ability. I neither play nor care about IT-uM.
I also find this term ETM horribly grating. If you ask me what I play in sessions I'll say English music or English dance music. I'd never say ETM because it's, well, just ghastly.
Chris
PS it's also dreadful, hideously offputting and, well, just ghastly.
Spot on Chris, definitely ghastly but thankfully, other than in this thread, never been used in my earshot (eyeshot?) and long may it remain that way.
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Stick to the melodeon then!
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Thanks guys. I do indeed paly English as well but the recordings seem to have disappeared when I revamped my web site
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I didn't realize there are missing pieces - on which of the four photos should the missing keyboard/pallet be? Actually, what is a keyboard pallet?
It would have originality looked something like this The end with all the holes should have the keyboard on it. It is almost certainly a commercially produced box. You will be more than welcome over on mel.net where everyone is most helpful, might even meet me there :-)
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It is (or perhaps was) a melodeon. Unfortunately the treble end keyboard/pallets etc are missing so it will need real work to make it function again.
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If you want "play along" for morris tunes you can try THIS
Modesty prevents me saying who is the player and I also apologise as it appears to be played on a melod**n
Going over to the really dark side
in General Concertina Discussion
Posted · Edited by Lester Bailey
You will be more than welcome and receive masses of contradictory advice - just like here really
See you over there!