AnnC
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How did it go?
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I'll only ask someone if I can add them to my 'online Cnet friends list' if I've met them in real life or had a long 'online' exchange of posts with them
But if you already know them that well, where's the need for posting the fact online?
I keep my 'friends list' private anyone looking at my profile can't see it but I use it to catch up on what people have been posting and if I need to 'pm/e-mail' anyone the link is easy to find -
I'll only ask someone if I can add them to my 'online Cnet friends list' if I've met them in real life or had a long 'online' exchange of posts with them
Quality rather than quantity -
you owe me a tanssi tune played at Crackpot-above-the-Swale on a snowbound sunny winter's day!
that's just 7.4 miles from where my father's family were 450 years ago, 42 miles from where he, my brothers and I were born, 58 miles from where he lives now and 77 miles from where I live (why move far when you're already in God's own country .......YORKSHIRE ..... 
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Tired but happy the participants in ACE 2010 are now wending their way homewards, heads full of tunes, and looking forward to next year's event which will be held from 7th to 10th October 2011
Thankyou for a great ACE, my first but not my last, so many concertinas with such lovely people and music
Next year's dates are in the diary already -
It's ordered (I think). Not quite sure what the method of payment will be but they're sure to let me know.
Thankyou for that link, it's a goldmine of books and recordings, it's been bookmarked for future spending sprees
Cheers Ann
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Cars will probably start loading 20 minutes before departure, as soon as the incoming ferry has been unloaded, so I can't hang about in the terminal.
There's food & drink available onboard.
So - see you onboard, and there's a lift available when we get to Brodick.
See you onboard it is and the offer of a lift is gratefully accepted
the following description to aid recognition has been copied from a thread on another site, not flattering but accurate .......... 'plump, about 5' tall with greying hair up in a bun, not dressed like a Folkie. ........and has a Discworld 'Guild of Assassins' badge on the concertina case'
..........the concertina case will be in a plain black bag though
I look forward to getting the dots/sound files, a week of practising to come
Cheers Ann
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We don't get to ACE nowadays because it clashes with Anne's term dates at uni
, but when we did go a good number of us met on the ferry and played The Arran Boat on the Arran boat. Recommended!Chris
That sounds fun
I've not been to the ACE before and I'm looking forward to it, especially if the music starts on the boat going over Ann
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There's 20 minutes between the train getting in and the ferry leaving so if I'm nippy getting my ticket there should be time for a quick cup of tea in the terminal (if there's a tea/coffee shop/machine ) otherwise I'll see you onboard.
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I'm a big fan of Finnish waltzes.
I first encountered Finnish folk music in the Finnish speaking area of Arctic Sweden many years ago. They're great to play.
A few of my favourites are:
Villiruusu
Emma
Impisvals'n
I like to play humppaa too - fast and great to dance too.
Steve
I've found the dots for Villiruusu and Emma , Could do with a long winter so that there's an excuse to stay indoors and do nothing but try out new tunes -
Thankyou, not just one or two tunes to try but but enough to brighten a whole winter
But that tanssi remain elusive! (I have asked Finn to see if they can dig it out.... but all seem to be away for the autumn ruska in the forests... tanssi-ing!
will let u know if succeed.
Thanks in anticipation
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I don't know if more is better
the cubic capacity of the bellows and how air tight they are will have as much say in the performance of the instrument, as will how you use the air button. My Anglo ( a small instrument 5.5in across it's end face measuring from a flat edge to opposite flat edge) has 7 fold bellows and I find it easier to play fluidly on than my previous instrument which was a 6 fold but I have also played 6 fold concertinas with a larger diameter ( so increased cc) than mine and had no problems. -
Thankyou, not just one or two tunes to try but but enough to brighten a whole winter
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I've got sidetracked
now looking for the dots/abc for a Walz as well it's 'Kun kesä on mennyt' (When the Summer has gone) by J A Schatrow. I've found a clip on Youtube http://www.youtube.c...h?v=6c51HKRFi5s
but would be interested in getting hold of the notation, not just for this waltz but for any other Finnish folk music if anyone knows of a source
Thanks Ann
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I'm hoping to catch the 12.30 ( or 15.15 if the train's delayed) ferry across to Arran from Ardrossan for the ACE event on the 8th Oct. If anyone else is planning to be on those crossings it would be lovely to meet you for a coffee/tea, either before or on the ferry crossing.
Cheers Ann
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Thanks Steve
I found this version played by Ukko-Pekka Yliranta, Anna Jaakola ja Elina Joensuu
which I shall keep listening to until it lodges in the memory
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In the UK the boat described would also be called a Narrowboat or Canal boat and whole families lived and worked on them. The boats were used to transport vast quantities of goods across country (before the advent of good roads and motorised transport ) on the network of canals, the boats were originally horse drawn
http://www.canaljunc.../horsedrawn.htm,
then later powered by steam or diesel engines.
http://www.canaljunc...nal/history.htm
The canal women were very house proud and would try to keep the small living cabins clean, also decorating surfaces with painted 'Roses and Castles' everything from the doors on the cupboards to the buckets used to hold water
http://www.canaljunc...ses_castles.htm
There was also a 'Boatwomans bonnet' designed to protect the head/hair and back of the neck as the women worked alongside their husbands on the boats.
http://www.lhcrt.org.uk/bonnetkit.htm
Cheers Ann
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Hello C.net users, thank you for your help.
My concertina was returned by the person who was given it by mistake.
James
Good to know that there are still honest people about
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It's a lovely Finnish tune and I would like to learn it but haven't been able to track it down. Does anyone know where I could find the sheet music or an abc please as I can only remember snippets of it, not enough to play the tune properly
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Andy Cutting's 'Flatworld' is mainly on the right hand side of a C/G Anglo with just the odd foray over to the left hand.
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We hope to see you there if we get back from Canada in time - will try to get some tunes or something organised for a 'workshop' - always better to sort it out beforehand! How about the ICA Library tunes from the new 'Royal Concertina Band' play list? Can we do that Jeremy?
I have only just spotted this and Jeremy is away for a bit but I am sure that the answer is, yes, you can use some of the tunes that were played at Dungworth. (I am planning to use a couple of them at the dotty session on the Friday evening at the start of Concertinas at Witney.) Please tell people that they were extracted from the ICA library but go ahead and do it!
Not being a sight reader ( I can follow the dots ...... but slowly ) would the tunes be available to listen to before getting off the ferry to Arran ?
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Amazon.com sell them for about $755
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according to someone at a Folk Club several years back I'm definitely not a musician ........ I played in the club's 'House Band' at the time and one evening we were introduced with '' We couldn't get any musicians for the dance tonight so 'The Band' are going to play''
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4 weeks today
House/Cat sitter organised, tickets bought ....... Yippee
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