Lester Bailey
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I not only take my instruments on Hols with me but the sainted Mrs Bailey and I plan around whatever sessions/folk clubs we can visit and perform. I also keep promising to try busking one day preferably miles from my home so that may well happen on a holiday in the near future.
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For what it's worth my Aeola (30361) has identincal fretwork.
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The best, most comprehensive, and most reflective of current practice, of all tunebooks at the present time that I know of is The Lewes Favourites. You can either buy the book from here, or you can download all the tunes directly for free from here. It's not chorded, but I consider this a good thing as most books that give chords tend to produce over-elaborate arrangements that do not suit English music very well.
Buy the book, and learn about the joys of dwyle flonking!
Chris
Couldn't agree with Chris more. The Lewes Faves is the most used ABC file on my PC. If only I could remember them all
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It's not my theory but I think it's probably right. Nations who value their folk traditions are nations that have be subjugated at some time in their past. They value their traditions as a way of doing down their oppressors. The English having not been subjugated in recent history seem not to need to celebrate their Englishness and in some manner seem to be embarrassed by it.
The increase of Political Correctness also leads to "inclusion" in the media which seems to involve presenting everyone music/literature etc except for that of the English.
One more Grumpy Old Man
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Why not a simple hexagonal badge [pin] with c.net on it. That would be really subtle!
Samantha
You might start an argument between those who want a hexagonal badge, and those who might insist that only an octagonal or duodecimal will do
And of course I will want a badge depicting an eight sided English (the only true type of concertina).
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I play all these tunes and got them from 1000 English Dance Tunes (£22 from the Music Room). They are all in the section titled Tunes published before 1730. Newcastle is from John Playford's English Dancing Master.
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As I am almost local in Wendover I would be really keen to join in.
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If you have nothing better to do tomorrow night (19th) me and some chums will be meeting in the Chandos Arms, Weston Turville to play some tunes. Mostly English tunes & songs palyed on English Concertina + melodeon.
Thanks for the invite. I only managed to read this forum tonight (21st) hence my non-appearance. However let me know of your next meeting. I'm only in Thame.
Tony.
Next time at the Chandos will be on 17th July or we also meet at the Red Lion, Coleshill, nr Amesham on the 3rd July. Or visit the Aldbury Morris Website, we always have a sing/play after dancing next on 30th June King's Arms, Tring.
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As I am almost local in Wendover I would be really keen to join in.
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If you have nothing better to do tomorrow night (19th) me and some chums will be meeting in the Chandos Arms, Weston Turville to play some tunes. Mostly English tunes & songs palyed on English Concertina + melodeon.
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May be if you want to play Irish properly you need one of these Irish Concertinas?
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I have been using the Allianz - Cornhill for a number of years. The cost is reasonable and when I had cause to claim for a repair on my Castagnri Melodeon they were prompt in paying and no hoops to jump through. . Particularily like the cover in car boot clause. Thoroughly recommended
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Jojo (Joseph) Webb was the father of the Fayre Four sisters, who played gilt Æolas (actually only gold-painted, as the ebony ends were thought to look too drab) and whose recordings of "surpassing musical quality" have survived to delight us.
Their concertinas can be seen here. The players are not the Fayre Four Sisters
it's actually (left to right) me on tenor, Terry (who owns the concertinas) on treble and Pete on Bass. -
You could do a lot worse than visiting Chris Algar of Barleycorn Concertinas. He's based in Stoke on Trent. When i visited he took a deal of time to sort boxes from his vast stock that met my verbal requirements and then left me alone to play them all until I reached my decision. Lovely bloke, big stock, good prices.
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Mostly "in the air" but if I do rest it it is always right frame/left leg due to my melodeon background
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and may God (or your higher power) bless you for doing so
That will be Anne then
.Once again thanks from us all.
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Audacity also has the ability to slow down/change pitch etc and is free, and it has its own thread on concertina.net
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Structured Query Language - a programming language used to query of the data in a database in a structured manner.
Aren't all concertina players computer programmers/engineers ?
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From the IPB Website:
GZIP enables pages to be sent quicker to the client since they are compressed, saving bandwidth. However, this option increases CPU usage.
Queries indicates the number of SQL queries used to produce the page
and the time the amount of server time used to produce the pages
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Mail deleted because I was talking rubbish
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Congratulations to you and all your family. 15th December is a good date to be born on.
Lester (dob 15 Dec, 1952)
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Joy, health, love and peace
Be all here in this land
Lester
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Me too please!!
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Sorry to be a Morris pedant but you can't say Trunkles (pick a tradition), all the Trunkles tunes are different and they are different for a good reason.
Lester, please explain this statement to me?
As an example Trunkles for the village of Bledington is a 4 part tune usually played in Gmaj (mind you the B part modulates into D) whereas Trunkles from the village of Wheatley is a two part tune and the A part is in G maj and the B in E Min.
They also differ in that the Bledington tradition is mostly danced with a one, two, three, hop, step and Whaetly is a step, hop, tradition thus requiring a totally different feel to the music.
On further checking in The Handbook of Morris Dances (The Black Book, the Morris man's bible) I note that Trunkles from Headington is written with a dotted notation so differs from the previous two.
The tunes are different because the style of the dance in each village is different, if you do what is becoming more and more common and play a "one size fits all" tune for different villages dances the whole dance becomes homogenised.
A simple example is the lack of anacrusical notes in Bledington tunes, this matches the lack of anacrusical hops in the dances. If you add in the note the dancers add in the hop and, in my opinion, it aint Bledington any more.
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Trunkles (Pick a tradition)
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Kim
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Sorry to be a Morris pedant but you can't say Trunkles (pick a tradition), all the Trunkles tunes are different and they are different for a good reason.
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In my humble viewing, I said pick a tradition because I have seen this danced and played in several traditions. Since one does not stand out more in my mind than any other, picking your favorite tradition seemed appropriate.
Sorry no offence meant!
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Trunkles (Pick a tradition)
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Kim
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Sorry to be a Morris pedant but you can't say Trunkles (pick a tradition), all the Trunkles tunes are different and they are different for a good reason.
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As I have been elected foreman of my side we will be doing the following new dances this year:
Idbury Hill (Field Town style)
Over the Hills and Far Away (Bampton style)
Valentine (Field Town style)
Sultans Of Squeeze
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For our UK listeners, if you get a chance to see the Sultans of Squeeze cancel all other commitments. The Sultans are John Kirkpatrick and Chris Parkinson and they play the most fabulous squeezebox music. Between them they play piano accordion, bass piano accordion, 1 row melodeon, two row melodeons (get to the concertinas man!) and JK plays treble and bass anglo.
The rendition of the Liberty Bell on bass accordion and bass anglo which segued to piano accordion and treble anglo via a kazoo break was magnificent. You can hear at least the first part here.