Lester Bailey
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Haven't got the notes but know Heidi from way back when she wed Paul Hendy who danced with my morris side. No help at all really.
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Sort of. Any tune can potentially be "Morris dance-able" if you play it right.
Just to prove this please see my greatest morris dancing appearance:
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I plan to be there to play for TVMM.
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Bollocks. ABC is obsolete (and no substitute for learning to read music) and you were both idiots
A little excessive may be
, I am happy yfor ou consider me an idiot as I said I was one but if you have never met Chris it is unfair to call him one.If ABC is obsolete what has replaced it? My understanding of something becoming obsolete is that some thing newer has replaced it?
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Went to friends house warming party some years ago and got to playing tunes as you do. There were all sorts of really good musicians there and me, I was holding forth on the benefits of ABC as a method of transferring tunes and remembering how they start etc etc. As I may have been in drink I may have been going on a bit. Next time I went to get a drink the friend who's part it was asked me if I knew who the piper was who was sat in the other corner of the room, seems his name was Chris Walshaw and I was an idiot
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My current favorite:
X: 45
T:En Avant Blonde
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:EMin
E2 G2 A2 | B4 B2 | D2 F2 G2 | A4 A2 |
A2 G2 F2 | E4 G2 | F4 D2 | E6 :||
B2 BAGA | B2 G2 E2 | A2 AGFG | A2 F2 D2 |
B2 BAGA | B2 G2 E2 | A2 F2 D2 | E6 :||
Just off to a band booking for a wedding so will be playing it for the bride and groom's waltz.
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Hello Chris,
There is a picture missing of me applying a black dye to the sheepskin skiver.
Bob
Not exactly missing, the image url in the pages links to:
http://hmi.homewood.net/Pictures/iPhoto%20...15/IMG_6673.JPG
But the image is at:
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Dipper
in Buy & Sell
But a musician with 120 melodeons will, with the best will in the world, leave something unplayed. I'm just hoping it's not the Dipper.Chris
What would a "musician" be doing with "120 melodeons" collecting firewood??
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Listen to the CD "The Magic of Morris." Some cuts were done in studios, without dancers; some were live field recordings of dances being performed. A huge difference in how they sound, beyond the clatter of sticks and jingling of bells.
Couldn't agree with you more, but modesty prevents me telling you who the musician for Grand Union Morris (complete with bells and sticks and calls) is on the CD
I'm slightly confused with the thread title of Playing for Dancers vs playing for fun. I achieve both at the same time.
As to advice it depends on what you are playing for, all the advice re playing for morris in this thread seems sound to me but playing for ceilidh/barn dance is much more to do with providing a suitable speed steady beat. As some one already said rhythm is every thing, when I took over a melodeon player for my band I was instructed that if I lost the tune just keep the basses going and no one will notice.
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Hi Lester,
What a great picture! Any idea when or where it was taken?
Jody
A nice young lady at the museum has looked it up for me and says "The concertina picture is part of an exhibition by People's History Museum named Carrying The Colours. The title under the picture goes as follows: Accordion Music Accompanies Sacred Trinity's Whit Walk around 1900."
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I snapped this picture from a display in the Museum of Science and Industry in a display of Wake's week marches, thought I'd share it
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On the BBC today there was an interesting 10 minutes from John Kirkpatrick on concertinas and the sea. Can be listened to Here, about the last 10 mins of the programme.
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If you want to go the ABC way, which I would recommend because;
- thousands of tunes already encoded
- does not clog up your machine with big files
- can be played directly from ABC (I can't sight read manuscript but can easily read ABC!)
- Its FREE
I would suggest ABC Navigator 2. Proper XP/Vista interface not the dire DOS based ones from previous programmes. The only down side is there is no Help/User Manual but not that hard to work it out.
As always this is only my view and YMMV
- thousands of tunes already encoded
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By the way, Lester, any chance of our seeing you there again this year?
I would love to make it but am at the really difficult bit of delivering a major project (the end :-) ) so i'm not at home much let alone allowed to enjoy myself
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How many more bl@@dy melodeon players are we going to let on this site?
Hi! Steve
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Thanks for those thoughts Chris. I think life might be too short to wait for a Dipper, but I'll look into the reference you make to John Connor and give him a ring. I was at Kilve last weekend as well, but didn't manage to catch Paul's playing this year having missed out on the bas sessions. I reckon the odds are going to be in favour of an Edeophone or Aeola after this process, but I'm trying to keep an open mind - as well as enjoy the research!
regards,
John.
A small word of warning about John Conner English concertinas, I owned one for a while and whilst it was a very good sounding concertina that was very well made it was very heavy. In the end I traded it for an Aeola with Chris Algar. Just my view and you should make up your own mind.
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But why would you play Morris tunes on an English? Just for the heck of it?
Why not I get along fine as do the other two players in my team on English concertinas. Please don't start a "you can't play morris on an English" to join the "you can't play Irish on an English"!
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Here it is from a LP I recently found used for $4. It's called "Traditional Tunes" from Front Hall records, recorded in 1975: The Strenuous Life.
Tried it with two different browsers. Same result:
404 Not Found
The requested URL was not found on this server.
The is a suprious %20 on the end.
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Further Concertina pictures and meeting up with Cnet chums here:
Thames Valley Morris in the Cotswolds
This time starring me on concertina plus C.Netter Nick Oliver with his Dippers and Hilda Gibson with her Crabb, in addition many other morris and camping photos.
Warning for the nervous there are also pictures of Melodeons, Accordions and at least one set of bagpipes!
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We definitely need a secret handshake or some such. Mind you as I didn't have my concertina with me that may have made life a little difficult.
Good night's dancing and good concertinaing Peter!
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A good companion for the Battle of the Somme is the Heights of Dargai:
"On the 20th October 1897, assaults by the 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment, the 2nd Battalion Derbyshire Regiment, and the 2nd Battalion Ghurkhas, with the Sikh Infantry, failed to gain any ground on Dargai. Early in the afternoon Colonel Mathias addressed the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders saying, "The hill must be taken at all costs....the Gordon Highlanders will take it!"
The Battalion Pipers, Kidd, Milne, Fraser, Wills and Findlater led the charge with Colonel Mathias at the front. Piper Findlater was wounded in both ankles during the initial charge over 150 yards of open ground from a hail of bullets from the "Heights". Nevertheless he continued to play on the bagpipes, leaning against a boulder, encouraging the "cocky wee Gordons" up the steep mountainous slopes of Dargai.
To the sounds of the Pipers and strains of "Cock O’ The North" and "The Haughs O’ Cromdale" the Gordons had stormed the "Heights Of Dargai" in approximately forty minutes, a climb of some 1,000 feet. By 3.15pm the Gordon Highlanders had taken and secured Dargai, and thereafter assisted in taking the wounded of all the regiments down to the hospital tents.
On the 16th May 1898 Queen Victoria visited the hospital and presented the Victoria Cross to Findlater"
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You both obviously do it for the joy it brings you??
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abc (always uncapitalized, even at the beginning of a sentence)
Doesn't it depend on what octave you are writing in?
Hey, I'm On Youtube!
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I shall be there as usual and with Brian on both days