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Dear Abby, I need more support
SIMON GABRIELOW replied to digver's topic in General Concertina Discussion
OOOOOH! Try anything else but a wooden chair to begin with - its like when you ride a bicycle for a long way and have to get off to relive pressure [ I know I am cyclist myself].. Use a stool with padded top [ even a bar stool which is taller]. Stand up to play and take breaks!!😀 -
Best of luck in learning your instrument .. you will enter a world of 'free reed' mania soon enough, whichever you go for🌝 Main thing in learning is do NOT be discouraged if you may find slow progress as you begin learning process, as you will possibly find your mind is ahead of your fingers in this respect for a while, as coordination and the basics are required. And plenty of people here will continue to give support and advice as you have seen already🌝
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That is similar model to my own concertina, and I have no problem with reach being too close. My hands are used to layout ( 25 years of use now) I am, however known for using very loose strap .. in fact I put all my fingers inside strap! My own way but works for me. Mine was sold under Hohner brand back in 1999. I do no know if I have' long,' fingers so much as supple hands with being involved in art and design for nearly all my life.
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Very quirky and eccentric😊😊
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Well done in typing in that huge list of tunes, for you Mr Coover, and of course to Alan for being so amiable and cheerful a musician🌝
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A brief improvisation!
SIMON GABRIELOW replied to Kathryn Wheeler's topic in Concertina Videos & Music
Very nice and quite brief too. Oh, and it was not played on your 20 button concertina! Very interesting🌝🌝 -
Holding Anglo Concertinas
SIMON GABRIELOW replied to geoffwright's topic in General Concertina Discussion
I recommend my own odd way of hardly holding the concertina at all.. very loosely with ALL fingers inside straps.. it's very good if you wish to be contortionist or perform some magic trick at the same tim!😊😊😊 -
Sounds ok to me. Sometimes valves will make sounds, and then gradually stop causing issues with use. And you do not have to play loud all the time of course, ( as regards that Chinese one you show here).. And bellows will soften up in time as well, as it is a hide or skin and needs using to make it supple🌝
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Tutorial Video Luke Hilman Orange Blossom
SIMON GABRIELOW replied to JoachimDelp's topic in Teaching and Learning
I have also sent message to JoachimDelp in a PM as it would have taken up lot of room on this feed. So, I hope t is helpful and encouraging. -
Tutorial Video Luke Hilman Orange Blossom
SIMON GABRIELOW replied to JoachimDelp's topic in Teaching and Learning
Would it not be simpler to have straightforward tutorial videos showing how instrument is used? It must be easier for a student to simply watch a video and they can pause the image, to learn a certain aspect of technique, if video gives good close detail of keyboard. -
How to read Gary Coover’s Tablature?
SIMON GABRIELOW replied to Victor F's topic in Teaching and Learning
I use a similar system of numbering, or did as I began playing years ago, and still use it here and there for more difficult passages now when needed. But it is not Mr Cover's tablature, but it does do the same thing in putting numbers above for right hand and below for left. If you persevere and practice.. then it will become second nature to use it eventually. Keep practicing and do not be put off if you progress slowly at the beginning. -
Playing with others was overwhelming. Seeking Advice
SIMON GABRIELOW replied to Victor F's topic in Teaching and Learning
You have already taken the first step to getting over that little hurdle of ' playing with others' by actually doing the playing already. And so you have already resolved what you feel you need to improve on, and you will find you will eventually begin to learn from those findings soon enough. Perhaps practice more on your own to get technique polished up - or record yourself, [if you can dare to] and then accompany your own recordings, [you can do this in peace in your own time] and the emerge into the world refreshed and playing brilliantly!😊 -
Progression timeline for ITM
SIMON GABRIELOW replied to PaulDa321's topic in General Concertina Discussion
I think that you can over learn (as I term it )..a tune, that is you can focus too much on perhaps a few tunes, and easily become fatigued on them. So, if that happens, and you do not feel you are progressing as you would like, then leave them aside for a while, and go back to them later on. Because your brain will still be taking in that information, even as you rest, and next time you should find that learning speeding up. -
Progression timeline for ITM
SIMON GABRIELOW replied to PaulDa321's topic in General Concertina Discussion
I think it will vary for each person. I started by doing a lot of copying music down by hand, which was good discipline to learning the music, for me, later on as I advanced. So by then I could pick out a melody and find it on keyboard ( concertina)..matching note to how I heard it aurally. If you can hear the tune in your 'head' or the sound of it will maybe help you grasp the music also. -
Niall Vallely's CD-ROM
SIMON GABRIELOW replied to Leah Velleman's topic in General Concertina Discussion
I still have a chunky computer that will play all that stuff and later developments of discs too..Even floppy discs! ( With adaptors that plug in)! So it may be still possible to somehow take the files off disc and instead put them in a folder on computer instead. Maybe it will work but maybe not can never guarantee it..but I have few 'older' programmes myself that do still work.