Henk van Aalten
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Now that was fun! On my left I assume is Alan and on the right Jody.
Mark the attached screenshot shows that you are right.
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As BMP is in most cases replaced by the popular JPG format (much smaller file size), I advise to convert your BMP into JPG.
Not good. I tried that with one of Dan's bit maps, and it doubled in size. That surprised me, considering that it's only black & white, and mostly blank white. I'm guessing that the JPG may have to be made from the original scan or photo to get the smaller-size advantage.
Jim
Note that I mentioned in most cases. This exception seems to surprise you
. On top of that, all programs that I could open this file with give a message "invalid BMP file".The general advice to use JPG (or GIF) still stands (in my opinion). On webpages BMP it is almost never seen
anymore.
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Ah, you must be using some kind of Mac. The others read them no problem, to the extent that I have heard from them. The files are bitmap format, which is pretty standard for PC software, or so I thought. Maybe someone more computer astute could give us a hand here?
BTW, I didn't read any of the shape note lyrics...I went for the tunes themselves. It may be good we're not singing them!
Dan
I do not see any of the pictures. Normally BMP should be O.K. for my PC (windows XP). In this case I get a message about a "invalid menu handle". Don't ask me what it means, but it sure looks serious. I never had this problem with BMP. As BMP is in most cases replaced by the popular JPG format (much smaller file size), I advise to convert your BMP into JPG.
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While thinking about an alternative for the rather straight lay out of the links page, I got a wild idea and worked it out in a quick and dirty way.
So give it a try in this virtual session, where you are supposed to be the leader
(I'm not completely sure that you see the session in the same way as I see it
)have fun anyway
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Klaus Guhl took his Klingenthal Silvetta Anglo C/G and thus enriched the Links Page with a new concertina brand. The instrument has (in my ears) a very specific (a bit melancholic) sound. On top of that Klaus plays very well on this cheap instrument. Pictures of the instrument can be found at this web site.
For the description of the tunes I quote from an e-mail that I received fom Klaus:
First tune is the wellknown "Hühnerschar Polka" I sent you before, recorded with my Norman, now with Silvetta. I play some single bass tones "C" in the beginning to let you hear how deep it sound, bit like a tuba (boom boom). Then the melodie comes in and in the end I changed accompaniment and made a little bass run.Second is a christmas tune "Macht die Türen auf". Children like it. It sounds a bit like "Jingle Bells" in the beginning, a friendly and happy song, it means "open the doors, open your hearts, christmas is coming
soon" O.K a little late now, but I played it often last month.
Third tune is a french walz. I recorded it for to demonstrate how the Silvetta sounds in G Row or in octave playing or chords on the left and melody on the right. It´s a very popular tune more in the south of germany and of course in France.
Thanks Klaus
edited to add the link to Schaumanufaktur the producer of the Silvetta.
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This might encourage other trans Altantic collaborations!
In fact it shows the feasibility of the C.Net Virtual Big Band. Mind you.. those guys did record without a master-tune or ticker-track for synchronization!!
Henk, after a second and third listening, I'm very impressed with your editing skills. Bravo!Well.. it was real fun to do it
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After hearing both recordings of Al and Jody of the Kost er C'hoat dance tunes. Alan and I got (simultaneously) the idea to combine the recording.
As a result I imported both tracks in Audacity and found to my surprise that the overall tempo of both was almost equal, but the tempo between start and finish was at certain points in the tune rather different.
Anayway some cutting, pasting, inserting silence gave an acceptable result that maybe can improved.
Both Jody and Al were (pleasantly) surprised by the result, so here it is:
Alan and Jody as a digital duo, playing a Kost er C'hoat tune
To hear them at best, it is advised to use headphones. Jody is playing on one side and Al from the other. Funny that this is also true for the ocean between them
(when I have time left, I will try to improve the mix)
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Otherwise, there may be a problem somewhere along the path between The Netherlands and Denmark.
This is almost unthinkable as the internet infrastructure has much more than one path between Denmark and The Netherlands.
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I prepared this page for a friend.
Jim,
There seems to be a problem with the link.
Edited to add: As there is a similar problem with http://www.nonce.dk/ (your home-page?), it might be a server-problem.
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Again there is an update of the Page.
It was already anounced by Al in another thread:
Jody Kruskal and I have been discussing the recent tune I submitted to this page being the tune for the dance Kost er C`hoat. It was this discussion about a fantastic tune recorded by GIGCB that prompted me to record this tune and send to Jody and subsequently to Henk. Jody in return sent me his version of the tune. Jodys version is completely different to mine,although similar in the B part. He has promised to send it in to Henk and I look foreward to your comments.This tune has a worm in it that makes you want to keep playing it, so BE WARNED.
Al
As announced I received a mail from Jody (quoted below)
Alan posted a Kost er C`hote last week. Here is the same tune and another for that Breton dance transcribed for solo Anglo from Alan Day's CD with his band Here Be Giants GIGCB. Alan and I thought that folks might enjoy hearing the two versions.Are we witnessing the start of a huge "Kost er C`hoat collection"
Further updates:
- I discovered a tune played by Bob Tedrow on a C/G baritone Anglo
- On Frank Edgley's site I discovered a fine slow air (title unknown yet)
- finally I corrected a lot of small errors
Have fun and keep recording, uploading, submitting
- I discovered a tune played by Bob Tedrow on a C/G baritone Anglo
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I should have asked Chris about these points before placing this message.
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Here's a very nice site where I found early manuscript scores for Morpeth Rant. Sure and alot of names!
What a great site!! Thanks Mark
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Thanks to (in order of appearance) Jeff, Tom, Stephen, Alan and Morgana for the reaction on my message about the recorded tunes link page.
I quote some essential remarks of your posts below.
I like having a page of non-commercial recordings of C.Net members. If you want to expand to other concertina recordings, I'd like it better if they were on a different page.For myself, I see the recorded tune page as supplementing this forum. It provided examples of the playing of members of the forum, often leading to postive criticism of the playing, leading to learning and improvement.I therefore don't think the soundtracks from existing CDs should be posted, nor commerical offerings etc. And I think the player should be a C-Netter. The value of this sort of page is that its primarily for enthusiastic amateurs or semi-professionals (?) so share their playing, to learn from each other, to be inspired by people who play better than oneself etc. ...I value it greatly as a learning resource...
...but the overarching concern should be whether the recordings are in some way useful to c.net members... When others noted a lack of many duet examples or Maccann players, I suggested to Henk that he link to John Morgan's web-posted Maccann piece "goronwy owain - ffarwel i'r marian". Not a cnet member, to my knowledge; from an existing cd not on the c.net music page, last I looked - I still think it's an appropriate inclusion...The original idea was to promote MP3 sound clips of music supplied by members for other members to listen to.A music swap of playing styles, our favourite tunes,new tunes we may have written etc. It was certainly not an additional platform for sound clips of CDs or promotional work for say a forthcoming tour....I agree that one of the charms of Henk's wonderful site is that the tunes are submitted by Cnet members. Rough and ready or highly polished, all submissions are accepted and appreciated.
From the quotes above I distill keywords like: useful/learning, C.Net members, non-commercial. Based on these keywords I come to the following criteria for inserting entries in the links page.
In order of importance:
- it should be useful to the C.Net community (new tunes, styles, instruments, etc.)
- the tune should preferably be played by a C.Net member
- the tune should preferably not serve commercial purposes
The word preferably suggests that there might be exceptions. In some cases criterium 1 might overrule 2 and/or 3.
Stephen mentiones a nice example below:
When others noted a lack of many duet examples or Maccann players, I suggested to Henk that he link to John Morgan's web-posted Maccann piece "goronwy owain - ffarwel i'r marian". Not a cnet member, to my knowledge; from an existing cd not on the c.net music page, last I looked - I still think it's an appropriate inclusion...Note that there is no sharp border between useful/not-useful and commercial/non-commercial.
- it should be useful to the C.Net community (new tunes, styles, instruments, etc.)
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Looks like a Chemnitzer to me with an unusual small amount of buttons.
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Paul and Ken are obviously doing something right!
You may say so Jim
What struck me the last few months is the increasing amount of newbies. I have the impression that it's much more than it has been.
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I didn't come across any page on the Rochelle, did anyone else?
Even with MicroSoft XP and Explorer6 Rochelle cannot be found
I guess Wim is more excited about his new traditional than about Rochelle (and so am I!!)
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I finally finished the update of our site, including our traditional (with ‘real’ concertina reeds) anglo models: concertina connection .We reserved time in our 2006 schedule for ca. 10 anglos.
My compliments! The new/traditional anglo looks very good.
As for sound I have a question: is there a big difference between your new anglo and the Phoenix anglo?
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Searching Google gives interesting results like:
Some people have a fixed idea that it has to be very energetic, and if you're doing North-West Morris it certainly is; they bash down on the front foot to make a lot of noise. But the normal rant step really isn't that violent; I can do a rant step while talking to a class of dancers. It's probably not a step you pick up the first few times you try it, but persevere — it can be done. Start by doing “Hop, hop, change (pause), hop, hop, change (pause)”. That's two hops on (say) the right foot, one on the left foot and hold it there, then do the same starting on the left foot.and
A1: 1st man Right hand turn 2nd woman ¾ to form a line with 2nd couple.Line makes arches, 1st woman passes through both arches
A2: Right hand star, and back with the left.
B1: 1st couple lead down center, and dance back, 2nd couple move up.
B2: Couples polka around each other, ending up in progressed places.
I hope this is usefull information
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Again there is an update of the The Links Page:
Klaus Guhl has sent me an e-mail from which I quote below:
three tunes played on my Norman Jubilee, which I bought in june 2005, when started again with the concertina. I quit Concertina playing about 7 years ago after having 1 year of practice. After playing bagpipes for a while I came back to Concertina and so I am following the evoltion of reed instruments.First tune "Bar al zon" is from Bretagne, an An Dro (a dance, which they dance and sing while stepping the clay of the floors in their houses. It goes on and on and on, repeating the melodie, doing call & response)
Second "3 ships" is a english Christmas Tune, which I found in a book from Mike Raven. Some may play it faster. I don´t know.
Third is a Polka, (Crowd of hens polka) which is popular in the area I live (northern Germany next to the danish border).
Thanks Klaus
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Even though your photo didn't come through completely, it sounds like you have an German or Italian made anglo concertina.
From the photos I conclude that it's an East-German Scholer.
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Well....gotta go do better things than taking silly photos of tea kettles and that kind of stuff....
A nice photo anyway of the singing kettle, reflecting the poor Albion and you
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Thanks for giving us the chance to play it.
I remember taking it and my Jeffries G/D (which I had acquired that same weekend following a swap) into an empty main hall, sitting on the stage all alone and playing both instruments for quite a while, enjoying the sound of both and the echoes and ambience of the room.
Chris
Was it the hall of Kilmory Lodge on Arran?
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Tonight I discovered the The Recorded Tunes Link Page! Great idea. I hope that I, one day, will be able to contribute something.... I fell in love with one of the contributions : "Sheebeg an Sheemore" (what does it mean???) performed by Henk van Aalten. I should definitely like to learn to play that tune (eventually)! Does anyone know where I can get the abc/notes?
Charlotte,
I'm glad you found the page and that you enjoyed the tunes. One remark about my recording of Sheebeg an Sheemore. In 99% of the time the tune is played in D. I play it in C however for the simple reason that I only had a C/G concertina and I had not find out yet how to play it in D.
One of the charms of the recording is the guitar playing by my brother. Makes a big difference.
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Jody Kruskal has submitted (by e-mail) a new tune, which I included in the Recorded Tunes Link Page.
I quote below the relevant part of his mail:
This tune here is Rockin' Horse. This and all the others you have included on your links page are played on a Jefferies 38 button G/D Anglo. Good guess!!!! If you like, you could quote me when you post this.The Anglo is great for traditional American fiddle tunes. Old Time American concertina music is a bit different from the English and Irish and other such styles that it was based on. Rockin' Horse is a tune of mine that is pretty much in this Old Timey way of playing but without the fiddle, guitar, mandolin and bass, just concertina. I was deliberate about deconstructing the elements of my playing so folks could hear what's going on and how the elements come together. Let me know what you think.
Jody
He did not only posted the tune as an mp3, but also included a pdf file with the score:
Thanks Jody!
Lead A Virtual Session
in General Concertina Discussion
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David, the file size of the Flash (.SWF) application is 969 Kb so that should be no problem
Allison
It's not the time, but too much "hands"