Alan Day

We still have room for you on the Duet Recordings page and I still have your recordings for Duet International. Can we use them ? Will you be around for Folk East > The last time I saw you. If not Take good care Al

Nice to hear from you Dirge. Al

Horrendous. Al

More tracks on Anglo International.

I think you probably know that Will Duke is a great source of tunes by William Kimber. Will is a great Anglo player and his style is based upon the William Kimber style of playing. Will has made a number of recordings of tunes played by him . I have played alongside Will and I noted one evening that he was playing almost double the number of notes I was playing. Al

Some years ago Julliette Daum printed most of my Victorian Concertina Book for The ICA to send out to it's members. Some pages were missing which I later supplied.. Apart from some excellent old music composed for concertina, there are pages of scales suggested for practice. I must stress that unless you can read music and play to a reasonable level then what you find in the book may drive you to play another instrument, I have donated the original book to the ICA and it is now in their possession. It was handed to me at a Morris Meeting outside a pub from a person I had never met before and he asked me if I would like it. No charge. I think it is only right that I pass this on also free of charge to the Concertina World . Al

Please remember that brass instruments at that time were also in old concert pitch and many a person has been caught out buying antique brass instruments (and concertinas) that were out of tune to the modern ones. Al

This tune, Stream to River Flows and many others can be found with my arrangements in the new book by Gary Coover. Each tune has a link to my videos so you can play along. Al

I think it's almost certainly concertina bands that played Brass Band scores. Or concertina players playing with brass Instruments that are in Bp . I have one and played alongside a trombone player for a number of years. Al

A new Waltz composed for Gary Coover to go in the book.

Just to recap Gary's hard work. The book provides the basic tune dots, Against each dot is a number showing the button I am pushing or pulling. Other numbers are provided giving the accompaniment I am playing. A page is dedicated explaining the push pull notes and numbering system Gary uses Just in case your Anglo system is a different layout to mine. A link is provided to me actually playing the tune, so you can play along with it. Thanks again to Gary and for your interest. Al

Perhaps I should have said "It seems like only yesterday".

I do not know of any musical background, but she is a World authority on knitting machines and knitting patterns for them, so she has a mind well suited for the Duet.

It was not that long ago that she was knocking on my door asking me what she had just purchased.. She has developed into an incredible player and this set of tunes shows her technical ability is reaching new heights. Al

One recent question came upon Face Book regarding a CG instrument that Gary usually writes his books for and a GD . The fingering on a CG and GD is usually identical so do not be put off using Gary's system You have the dots ,the fingering pattern, the accompaniment and the Video of the music . Al