Henk van Aalten

You lost me. What's an Emote ? Chas Hi Chas! A long time ago they were called emoticons which is a contraction of emotion and icons. In other words icons that (try to) express emotions. However nowadays more and more of these small icons are no longer expressing emotions . Maybe that's why they are now called "emotes" ??

Now, here's a man who knows his pixels /Henrik Henrik, I have the impression that LDT is not a man! I remember you having the same trouble with Ennistraveller (???)

As the next Arran Concertina Event is approaching, I thought it's about time to "dig up" this old post and put it back on top of the list . It looks like it's going to be another special event this year! I'm really looking forward to cross the water to this charming island of Arran and enjoy everything that makes the Arran Concertina Event so special. You can find more information at the ACE website and of course the recent post of Samantha Payne.

It's very sad to hear this. She gave me (and maybe many others) a lot of pleasure by playing together with you Peter!

Just to inform you that the Recorded Tunes Link Page has been updated. Will try to solve the problem with the broken links.

Really enjoyed this :)

Please explain, or do you mean "along the row" works better than cross fingering

Hi John You are not very modest in your wishes but... When you hurry and don't mind a different language zone, you could go quickly to the Netherlands (Nijmegen) to join the "trek er es uut" event. I know Johan Verbeek gives a concertina workshop and he might fulfil some of your wishes. His style is very original and is directed to harmonies, chords etc. You can hear his playing on the RTLP. I also heard his playing when he visited me to try my new Wakker. At that time he did quite amazing things with the Anglo (base lines, chords and harmonies). More information about this famous (at least in The Netherlands) "Trek er es Uut" event can be found here (in Dutch )

Jim, Of course I know you would. It's just to show that the same thought can pop up in different minds at about (more or less) the same moment. This happened to me so often during my research work

Dan As I was not in the workshop for the "German" concertina, I have only a faint idea about what they were doing. What I heard was some traditional German tunes and song. For more details try to contact Jurgen Leo. He was using this concertina mainly to accompany his singing. He can really make a show of it! C.Netter Nils Meyn might give more details about him. What was called in Bielefeld a "German Concertina" is known to me as a simple 20 button Anglo (made in Germany or to be more specific in Klingental). Henk

One good reason to keep this item on top of the listing is the announcement of a collection of photos that can be seen at this location (URL). See you in Bielefeld next year? ?

For me the weekend in Bielefeld was a great event. Nils' description below seemed to be very accurate. All I can add is that Juliette Daum was present as well. The performances of the "teachers" on Saturday night was impressive. Jürgen, Juliette, Ernestine Healy and Rainer Süßmilch showed their high level of playing and performing. As an Anglo player I was charmed by Ernestine's very subtile version of "Boys of Bluehill". On top of that Rainer's as well as Nils' group of pupils performed a tune that they learned during the day! About teaching, I can only speak about Ernestine. She really sees (and hears) everything and lets you work hard, and (which is more important) I learned a lot and have to work out much more. I also learned a lot from colleague-pupils, could play some really nice Suttner concertinas and had a talk with Jürgen Suttner himself about concertinas in general and more specific my Wakker A1. Finally the atmosphere (people, surrounding, wheather) was perfect. If I can, I will be back next year!

You could ask him ?

Leo You can check the RTLP and please believe what you see. Most of the files shown in the RTLP are hosted on websites of the "player". It's the charm of internet (linking to..). To give you an idea, have a look at this special page. All links in the "listen to" column that are shown in bold and green are hosted by me (on my website). The main reason for hosting on my site is the fact that the player had not the faintest idea how to upload the soundfile(s) to a website in order to give them an URL. Henk

I say: AMEN!

Rob, In general I can confirm (from own experience) what has been said already about the difference between Irish and Scottish sessions: more variation and more fiddle-centered. On YouTube there is this playing by Graham Irvine where the difference between Scottish and Irish is (imho) nicely demonstrated in one set of tunes: a march, a strathspey, a reel. The first one (March) sounds to me not specific Irish or Scottish. The Strathspey sounds 100% Scottish (with the specific short-long long-short note sequence). The reel has a "Scottish Flavor" but could be Irish. BTW: during my search on YouTube if found some very impressive Scottish fiddling. To learn more just listen, listen and listen. Enjoy!

As "boring" is not an objective property of music, you can only speak of people that can get bored in a certain degree. I myself am (or get) almost never bored.

This is the right answer in this time of the year (in the northern hemisphere). Temperature is rising, everything is growing, hormons are flowing...etc. etc.

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Returning to the subject of tablature.. In this post I used a tablature that is more or less copied from the tablature that is used for the harmonica (melodeon / box) in the Netherlands. Up till now it has been very helpfull for those beginners that can not read the dots. Together with the tablature a sound sample must be available.

IMO the concertina player is not playing a roll at all. More in general she is fiddling around in this tune To be more serious, I am trying to learn this tune myself at the moment. Later in the day (when people are not still asleep over here) I will try to describe what I am doing. BTW: I assume that you play a C/G Anglo

Had to dig deep before finding this thread... Anyway... after more than 1 year of neglecting the RTLP, I had a look and did some maintenance. Broken links are indicated and I will try to find out why the links are broken and what kind of repair actions are possible. The main reasons for having a look at the page was the request of Marien. He has uploaded two great tunes to the internet. Both are very different from the "normal" repertoire and are played on his new Wakker F/C Anglo. My apologies to all those of you who I forgot. If you still have tunes somewhere on the web, let me know and I will place them on the RTLP.

Hello Roy Welcome to this concertina community. You can find info about the Arran Concertina Event in this post. I will try to be there this year so maybe I'll see you there!

Gerry Going down is quite simple: just put your instrument in a plastic bag with two holes to put your hands through. Put your instrument in the bag and place your hands inside the back. Be sure that your system is quite air-tight (use some tapes to connect the bag to your hands/wrists). Now comes the important step: fill the bag with a gas that has a higher density than air ( CO2, noble gasses like krypton, xenon or even radon). Now play your tina and you will hear a remarkable lowering of the pitch. To calculate the new value of your pitch, you can use a simple formula (density gas)/(density air) * pitch (in air) = pitch (in gas). In this way (using Radon) you can even lower the pitch almost one octave!! So with the right air/gas mixture you can easily make a Bb/F concertina from your C/G. The other way around is also possible. In this respect Helium is often used to raise your voice in a Donald Duck like fashion. It will (as could be expected) also raise the pitch of your concertina. Good luck with the experiments!