Sandra A

Do you mean concertinas were referred to as a constant screamer? I looked it up online and there has been someone with a user name of constant screamer on this forum in the last 10 years or so. Their posts are hilarious.

Did he have the surgery and survive? Go to a new home? The concertina traveled across the world and still speaks today That's great!

We had a Cairn too. He was a great little dog. Guinea pigs make noise too, squeaky ones though.

That is a great story. How is Hercules doing now? Still around?

I am not asking for suggestions of what to name it, I asked if any of you have named yours.

Too common. I will name it something different.

I thought about those but decided that just wasn't it for me and mine.

That is funny I never would have thought someone would come up with that for a name for a concertina.

Yea! I got it back today! So Happy I think I need to name it. Have any of you named yours?

Yes, some of them do sound horrible. Did that by accident

Exactly. I don't always want to be stumbling and falling.

Wow! I haven't gotten that far in it yet so didn't know that. I just looked and I thank you for letting me know that. I believe it will help me a lot. I really do like his books and have bought several of them.

Is there one you can recommend that would be a good one? I have one that covers a lot of it. Is there one specifically for concertinas though?

Ha ha ha! You are so funny! I think he will have it tomorrow since I sent it express and he said he will work on it Wednesday and send it back to me the same or following day so I should have it back by Friday. Yea!

I did that yesterday. I have a diagram where each note is exactly like you have suggested and yes some of them do repeat. My understanding of that is so you can reach it from other places with it being different on whether it is on the push or pull. I have a book that seems to be very thorough on chords and will definitely take your advice on this. That is my goal. I know it won't happen overnight but since I am really enjoying learning all of this on my new concertina I will get there. I am better player this week than I was a week ago so am making progress a step at a time and loving it the whole way.