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    Do you play other instruments?

    in General Concertina Discussion

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    I’m wondering what other instruments you fellow concertinists play. Watching the submissions for World Concertina Day video concert I noticed harps, bouzoukis, and more concertinas in the backgrounds. 

    Personally, I played mandolin for a dozen years before I took up English concertina, and I’m sure that experience colors the way I think and arrange on concertina [Also I’m part of an ensemble so I have other instruments to fill out an arrangement]. Did you start with concertina, or did you come from some other musical experience?

    Thanks for your input!

    Greg Mirken

    Salvation Army Concertina Bands

    in Concertina History

    Posted

    This seems like the perfect place to ask about one of my instruments. I have recently joined Concertina Net, and I have contributed some music. My main instrument is a 48key Wheatstone Treble EC, which coincidentally was born (Christened?) on February 14, 1929.

    My other instrument is the one I’d like some information about. It’s a Lachenal Edeophone 48key Treble EC. It has its serial number on the left end on a metal inlay, 59798. It also has a number stamped in gold on both ends of the bellows (one poorly done and blurred). When I bought the instrument I was told this was a Salvation Army serial number. There’s an upper case R, a raised D with a small dot beneath it, then the number 129862. Can anyone on this forum offer any insight?

    Thanks in advance!

    Concertinas in the Cinema

    in General Concertina Discussion

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    OK, I’ll add to this zombie thread since it has been revived. I played EC on an episode of “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” in 1996 or so. I played on the soundtrack, rather, and coached one of the regular actors. I thought he did a pretty good job of not looking like a complete buffoon. I got the job because I knew a couple of the other old time musicians who were in the band for a barn dance. I did get to play guitar on screen, at least.

    I was kind of expecting a spinoff about the wacky misadventures of a frontier concertinist but it was not to be. You know how Hollywood is.

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    I’m new here, how are you all? And a link to a video.

    in Concertina Videos & Music

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    Is it more pop covers ye want, then? Here’s a set that begins with the Galician tune A Bruxa, into Stairway to Heaven, finally to Emma’s Waltz. As a young guitar shop proprietor I could never dream I might someday perform Stairway, but here it is. It’s really a beautiful, clever melody. We noticed how the harmonic structure fit so well into Emma’s. If others have covered popular melodies on concertina, let’s hear them.

     

    https://youtu.be/u5G40sIPqNI

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    I’m new here, how are you all? And a link to a video.

    in Concertina Videos & Music

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    Hi. I play English concertina; no formal concertina lessons but I’ve learned a lot from the playing of Alistair Anderson. (I’ve also listened to Simon Thoumire and I just shake my head.) Before taking up concertina I played mandolin for many years. My group is called Three Times Through (get it?), based here in Northern California, in Nevada County. We started interspersing popular melodies with traditional tunes and noticed that it broadened our audience, and enhanced our tip jar. Sometimes there’s a musical justification, sometimes lyrical, sometimes just too much wine at rehearsal.

    Here’s a link to a recent live video- The White Petticoat/ Paint it Black/ O’Connel’s Welcome to Dublin (I think that’s its name)

    I hope you enjoy it.

     

    https://youtu.be/cHTPsnjMLuo
     

     

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