Lester Bailey
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English is well known as "a language in which any noun can be verbed."
I think you will find that is American not English
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Of course the greatest morris dancing in film occurence is in Bill Murray's The Man Who Knew Too Little. Modesty prevents me telling who coregraphed the morris sequence and who can be heard playing melodeon on the sound track. Mind you you can probably work it out from the man who coregraphed and appeared with the morris dancers on Top of the Pops backing the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu with their hit It's Grim Up North.
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Do any of you know a source for an abc file of the notes for Sir Sidney Smith? The one I've found is a duet in B flat, which I've combined into one score for EC (it should be playable, most of the harmony was parallel thirds). I'm not thrilled with the key, however. Is there another source in a better key, or should I just have abc2mtex transpose it for me?
Larry
X:387
T:Sir Sidney Smith
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:1/8=170
K:G
Bc|d2dd d2dd|e2d2 c2B2|dcBc A2dc|BcAB G2dc|
BdBd AdAd|GdGd GFdc|Bcde d2^c2|d6||
AG|FDFA dABc|B6 dc|BGBd gdef|e6 gf|
egeg dgdg|cgcg BgBg|egeg dgdg|cgcg BgBg|
e2d2 c2 B2|e2d2 c2 B2|e2d2 c2 B2|B4 A2 Bc|
d2dd d2dd|e2d2 c2B2|dcBc A2dc|BcAB G2dc|
BdBd AdAd|GdGd FdFd|EdEd FdFd|GdGd AdAd|
EdEd FdFd|GdGd AdAd|cedc B2A2|G6||
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Guessed you would turn up eventually. All the best melodeonistas play English you know (well there's you and me)
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Surely it can’t be that melodeon players are a more friendly bunch?
May be we are just better organised, us mel.netters are very lucky that one of our members takes the time to book an evening meal on the Saturday which, within reason, is open to any one from mel.net. Mind you, you need a Steve or similar to take on the organisation.
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I have Jump at the Sun and Puddleglum's Misery but someone recommended Living in Sin (the tune, not necessarily the activity!) by John Kirkpatrick. Can't find the dot's anywhere on the net, does anyone have them? I can record someone playing it a week on Sunday but I'm not patient enough.
Your wish etc
X:1
T:Living in Sin
M:6/8
R:
K:D
A | DFA def | Ace gab | aba def | gec AGE |
DFA def | Ace gab | aba def | gec d2 :||:
a | aAa agf | gAg gfe | fAf fed | e AA A2 f/g/ |
aAa agf | gAg gfe | aba def | gec d2 :|
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Dont know about Four Up, but Glorishears in ABC can be found HERE. There are of course a number of Glorishears, my favourite being the Field Town variant.
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Horses Bransle (actually is this French?)
The Horses Branle (different spelling?) is first recorded in the Renaissance dance tutor Orchesography, by Thoinot Arbeau, first published in 1589 in Langres, France.
You can find all the tunes contained therein here
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I'm getting a midi Melodeon (Streb Website) and the guy who is making them (Steve Rouse) has sampled various melodeons and you can just dial them up. Examples of a Streb can be found tune page (can't think where they got the idea for a tune page?). Steve was on a mission last time I saw him to sample a Jefferies to add to the available voices.
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A horror story for anyone playing and accordion reeded box with the reeds waxed in place. I once took a melodeon out for a Christmas dance out after having left it in the car all day, one large suck chord and the wax shattered and all the reeds fell off the reed blocks. Made a good percussion instrument but needed serious rework to fix it.
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Thanks for rounding them up and adding them. I was interested in how the fellas are holding their English concertina while standing. I can't see the details so well in the pics, but it seems to me as though the first two (but not the third) Coconut Dancers are both rotating the 'tina so that the buttons are at an angle to the ground (like Simon Thoumire), and the Thames Valley, Aldbury and Bedford guys are using "The Orthodox Hold," with the buttons horizontal to the ground. Do you by any chance have any clarification on this?
I think its just what suits the individual player. I meant to add the picture beklow but forgot whaich shows one way round standing up if you find it difficult.
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And yet another English playing for Morris.
<irony on>I think you were mistaken. English concertinas are never used for Morris and cannot be played standing up<irony off>
Bacup Brittania Coconut Dancers
Thames valley Morris Men (all right one is an anglo but it is a Dipper!
Aldbury and Bedford Morris Men (two anglos , two English)
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I have never seen anything that resembled the cart in the pics -- is that hay in the cart?
No
Rushes?Yes
What kind???Collected from the moors that surround Saddleworth
Why do they pile it so high?To get it all on the cart
Is it usually pulled by horses?No
Does the guy on top have some sort of special status or something? It's really interesting!The Jockey for the Rushcart is chosen from the Morris Men each year according to seniority amongst the members who have not yet "been up". The Jockey is responsible for naming his cart and making the banner for the front - no one else in the team knows what it will be called until the day.
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OMG!!! Any pics??
How about this one of the cart en-route. Afraid I can't find any of the band at the front buut have included one of the Saddleworth Morris Men's Band (concertina content) and the forever weird Bacup Britannia Coconut Dancers
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I wonder if there's any special trick to playing while standing up?
Nope, just stand up and play
The first time I tried playing a concertina, someone told me I should be sitting down and rest it on my knee.So don't beleive what people tell, especially me
But I see plenty of folks playing while standing. Is there a special way to hold the instrument to maintain control over it?Nope just stand up and play
Is it harder with an English concertina to play standing up?Not in my estimation. I believe you get far more expression into your playing by not "grounding" one end of the instrument on a leg (see advice on listening to people above)
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There are English players in Morris honest! That is me nearest the camera
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You acn now access all of the Bacon Black Book in ABCs at The Morris Ring
And I am far to modest to post this link
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Just got back and thought I should share some non-melodeon piccys:
Emmanual Pariselle playing his Franglo
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He has been banned from melodeon.net so would not be very welcome.
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I'm going just a few weeks later to Melodeons at Witney. I'll go and stand in the corner!!
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Almost on topic, How many folk singers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two, one to change the bulb and the other to write a song about how good the old bulb was.
Derek
I thought it was 6, one to change the bulb, one to write the song, and four to sing it in full harmony
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I discovered this via www.thesession.org. A new ABC editor/player/printer called ABC Navigator 2. Seems very good to me, does all that ABC2WIN does but in a less DOS more XP manner. Have a look, it's free from HERE
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Lester,
Do you know if they ship to the United States? I wasn't sure by reading through the web pages and didn't want to put in my info if they didn't ship here anyway.
Very nice CD.
Helen
Judging from the "Delivery £1(UK)" bit of their site they can ship to other than the UK. I note that the release date is tomorrow.
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I must look out for the forthcoming CD on which that will be an item
The CD is available now I was available at the gig and I found it available here
edited due to my total inability to speel corektly
Morris Dancing In British Films
in General Concertina Discussion
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Whilst we are in boasting mood, my current team Aldbury Morris appeared in the last to series of the Generation Game. Not sure whether that is a boast or a confession