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SIMON GABRIELOW

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  1. 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!!😀
  2. 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🌝
  3. 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.
  4. 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🌝
  5. Very nice and quite brief too. Oh, and it was not played on your 20 button concertina! Very interesting🌝🌝
  6. 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!😊😊😊
  7. 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🌝
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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!😊
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Freshly off the press, I heard this melody in my mind and had to get it down as soon as I could. It is a Duo not a 'duet' - the two parts briefly interweave, and occasionally answer each other also. The 'bells' tones in the tune are heard here and there before ending on held 'bell like' tones at the close. As usual I write the manuscript down by hand, and work it up from there.
  16. Superb and beautiful music -very Elizabethan with polyphonic notes in the tone of it.
  17. A very basic approach is to print off onto paper a concertina keyboard actual size. Then you can try out finger positions.. Without the need to be online or plugged in at all Laminate the diagram. And you could then even practice whilst on bath or shower😊😊😊
  18. I have had this in my collection for many years but it is always very rewarding to play.
  19. That Magic sponge - I mentioned earlier - will do the job and no chemicals needed just dampen the stuff and - presto, perfect finish😊
  20. My venture last year into other unusual instruments lead me to buying a keyless [ Sycamore wood] Chalumeau, which came from Europe. I was immediately taken with its unusual sound quality and reedy voice like timbre of tone which it makes, and yet is so simple in its make up and construction. I found it seems to work well when coupled with concertina [with the metal reeds]. I have done a few duos since last year or two - and decided to play this tune combining that Chalumeau, with my Anglo concertina, which seems to work fine. It's a duo in three movements and close harmonies, each instrument plays its part, one with the other. I now await, and I have ordered another chalumeau, in Olive wood - which will contrast with the other one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83iHLldF948
  21. You can sometimes get special sort of fine sponges that work to remove stains on any surface with just the slightest dampening with very little water ( no chemicals needed).. and they can be cut to any size! They take tarnish off cutlery quite nicely🌝🌝 and that's metal so ?
  22. I listened to that band military type.. really quite cheerful🌝 could do with some crackle reduction but good fun🌝
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