Philip Haakon

This is a fun one to play! I made the arrangement myself, but I had to change the key. It starts off in C for the A part and goes to G for the B part

Are you going to sing as well, or play instrumental?

Hi, Jody! Thanks I went with C/G in the end because it ended up being the most practical for the stuff I want to play. I use it a lot when playing with the band. More videos to come on that. I find that the C/G isn't really that great for playing in the home key of C, funnily enough, because of a usable C chord only being available on the push, and an F on the pull, which is kinda stressful. It's great for playing in G though, and D as well. Especially now that I've gone over to playing more 5-chords (omitting the third) on the left hand side, as we have talked about before. Sounds cleaner. A G/D will have to come later I think. Yeah, the tuning being better sure helps. It's got a lot more punch as well, which is great for the lilt! It's more tempting to pick this new one up and play with it. I think this will be good enough to last until I can get a "proper" concertina with concertina reeds. I will have to work those bellows some more! They're starting to loosen up, which is good.

I made a video of it here on Youtube: Does it look/sound okay to you guys? I’m very curious about that metallic sound that comes when changing the bellow direction on the low notes. Is that normal?

This is one of the songs that people have requested when I bring my concertina along somewhere. I’m working on an arrangement, but it’s kinda tricky, and not too smooth yet!

Hi! I'm one of Jody's students. I've sent you a PM