Henrik Müller
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Naa - not to worry - it is camouflaged as a top-notch instrument!Just a quick note: I am going to a three-day conference in Harrogate, UK, and intend to join the session there tomorrow, Tuesday the 2nd ("Tap and Spile", Tower Street. 20.30).
This gives me a chance to test an expression I've just learned : "hot-rodded Stagi" - that's what I'll be carrying
/Henrik
Let's hope that they let you in, and not insist that you remain in the car park!
Regards,
Peter.
/Henrik
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Just a quick note: I am going to a three-day conference in Harrogate, UK, and intend to join the session there tomorrow, Tuesday the 2nd ("Tap and Spile", Tower Street. 20.30).
This gives me a chance to test an expression I've just learned : "hot-rodded Stagi" - that's what I'll be carrying
/Henrik
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I could have told you, Henk - the "cheese" bit was a ploy, only to see if someone would do it...Of course I gave it a try, resulting in this...
..I advise you Henrik to review the recipee... the result is rather disappointing
Jokes aside - the latest stuff has been added, folks - here - two pages, with some of the small, almost unbearable steps to the end goal. And I am going to the UK for one week - I don't have the time! The only consolation is that I intend to join a session in Harrogate tomorrrow night (Tuesday) - I've made a post of that on "General discussion" as well.
/Henrik
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Congratulations, Henk!
It looks brilliant - looking forward to seeing it soon! Show me yours, and I'll show you mine
.Can't help a quick jump into another thread: IMHO, raised ends means good looks - a way of adding a little "roundness" to an otherwise very angular object. Comfort? Maybe. Acoustics? May be measurable, maybe not - so many other things affects sound.
Sorry - back on thread track! I am curious about the French polishing. I have a - maybe wrong - idea that the surface is quite sensitive to humidity, e.g., finger prints, etc. Did Wim have any recommendations?
/Henrik
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Ah - one of my favorites! A tune seldom heard these days - good stuff!...Anyway, here's my recording of the tune "The Groves", played on my Edgley C/G:
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Cheers,
Michael
/Henrik
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Works like a charm - I actually forgot it was there: on Safari, a blue RSS button appears in the adress list, but I am so used to it being there, that I forget it (old illusionist's trick).I've enabled an RSS feed of the main "General Discussion" forum here. Click on the little RSS orange button at the bottom left of the site and you can get the URL, which you can then use to add this Concertina.net feed to your favourite aggregator. I've tested it with my MyYahoo page and it appears to work fine. Any other interest? I'm not a real RSS user, so this is the first time I've really thought about it... I can make feeds for the other forums too I guess if there's any interest.Paul
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I am tempted - but not now. We can take the idea through a spin in October, your place. Press = press key, pull is press key + modifier key. Which? Space?But someone clever enough could do something similar for a 30 button anglo using the computer keyboard to map the notes. Now THAT would be a very useful resource indeed!Samantha
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Rich commenting on Michael's suggestion:
Hello, Gentlemen - I am back; been abroad for most of the week....I you do that you'll need to make little reedplate-high "blocks" for the non-reedplate side of the screws so that the screws plumb down rather than have a tendency to work off the reedplate.Alternately you can cut a small "V" or "U" in the end of the reeplates to accomodate the screw shank which would give the head more purchase...
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Sorry, that I confused things more by forgetting to state that it is an English: the notes are the same, so you understand my puzzled looks when I saw only one valve. And sorry about sliding of the thread
Looking at "real" concertinas' top reeds have made conlude that when they are small enough, there is no reason to have a valve - fairly much common sense.
Theodore mentioned 'markings for the push side': when I look at the reed plates, they are in fact marked with a diagonal, punched impression across a corner on one side. Obviously, for reeds with two valves, it has no meaning - a theory could be that Antonelli makes all reeedplates like that, knowing that it only makes sense for diatonics. Pure speculation - I can ask Antonelli, if I get really worked up about it.
I am indeed going to attach the reed plates with screws as you suggest, Michael and I have made the screw holes 'more than close' to the plates, so I will need small "U"-cuts in the plates, as you suggest, Rich - the whole valve-no-valve thing is easily tested, isn't it? Flip the reedplate either way and listen. It's only on two notes, I think.
Seal - I am sealing, but with the thinnest of thin leather - like paper really (photos will be up eventually). From my years around pro-accoustics, I know that anything soft and pliable will steal acoustic energy, so I hope that this material is a good compromise. We'll see (sorry: hear
)Finally, to drift back into the thread: it also confirmed my own theory about which end being closest to the air stream: reed tongue or reed mount. AgainC.net has proven its value!
Yikes - it's snowing again
/Henrik
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Theodore, you might be the man to solve a small mystery for me: I am getting close to the point where I will mount the reeds (accordion reeds (Ups! - running for cover
)) in the instrument of my own design.Now, some of the top reeds (Antonelli, "A Mano") have only one valve - so how is it to be placed?
1) The valve facing the "push" side, compression
or
2) The valve facing the "pull" - side, suction
- awaiting enlightment,
/Henrik
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I've been quiet for a while - but no news means good news: here is the next update!Light is appearing at the end of the tunnel!/Henrik
Thanks for the update Henrik, it's looking great and very professional.
Looking forward to the next update and to see and hear the finished beauty
It's starting to look like something, it's airtight, and it can say "whooooooooosh...."
(I will start playing with sound when all the other stuff is finished (except, maybe, lacquer and final polish of the endplates).
Before someone asks - the snow on the "Concertina Matters" banner image means that we still have lots of snow here. Brrrrr!
For the benefit of dial-up users, the update is here
/Henrik
Talk about usage - I have 150 Bytes left on my web space! This means that I will use your kind offer, Henk, about moving my sound files to your server.
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And just as one thinks: "Can't be any more of these instruments..." this one pops up!! Two slabs of bandoneon of a small table!
The site is in Dutch, btw, though one of the family pages (Reissig) is in German.
/Henrik
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Probably "Jamie Allen", then the "The Blarney Pilgrim" since I, as a few others here, started out with Alistair Anderson's tutor.I am just curious. What was the first tune that you learned on the concertina and why did you pick that tune?Helen
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Well done, Anne & Chris - best of luck for more years! Flowers have been ordered to pop out of the ground in southern Sweden when you arrive for the SSI 2006!Thanks to everyone for their best wishes. We had an absolutely marvellous session and party. I'll put a couple of photos up when I get the chance.Chris
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Fine with me, Mark. It is still –15C/5F at night over here...a pint of Murphy's and a couple of tunes in my kitchen will have to do!...There you go, 52 and a total crab ./Henrik
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Great stuff, Jeff, and congratulations with your new thing!
- and I thought that I had seen it all, but never this metal-ended banjo - must indeed be rare. Stay with it!
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A shameless attempt to play smart-Alec (since I can't play the Anglo...), but nevertheless:... Any suggestions?"The Heathery Breeze" is a tune I've heard played often by beginners, old and young.
I understand your concern about listening to someone playing it - I don't know about downloadable versions, but here are some album suggestions:
- On "Irish Concertina Styles", various players
- On "The Hidden Note", Jaqueline McCarthy
- On the album "Heathery Breeze", Matt Molloy (concert flute)
/Henrik
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- Humbly bowing, may I add my two cents:I believe Frank Edgley played the Scottish pipes before he took up the anglo. It looks like that was a successful transition!
So did Jonathan Taylor before he took up the English, and he (like Henrik) is a spectacular player of Irish music on the English concertina.
Chris
PS to nail my own prejudices, I play English music on the anglo mostly, plus song accompaniment.
I started out on English (still on it) - by coincidence. I was attracted to both Irish music and the music of Northumberland. I found the English well suited to Northumbrian (Alistair Anderson being a stellar example) and hard for Irish - luckily, I didn't know that.
So I struggled on, and slowly developed a bag of tricks that to a certain degree compensated for what the English (concertina
) has difficulties with in Irish music. But, again, it's a very, very personal thing: what makes sense to A, may well be utterly nonsense to B.
Good luck!
/Henrik
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Whoa - that was a cool idea, Henk - I've looked at it, but how do I pinpoint the exact geographical spot? I mean the town/place is "big", in relation to the resolution you have on the satellite maps....this website.I'll come back to it later. But is adds yete a new dimension to c.net.
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Since you play the fiddle and the English concertina , consider this:... Should I use the same kind of phrasings as on the fiddle? What should I think of to play well rhythmically?...Your bellows is your bow - not only air supply - IMHO, it's the only chance to get colour and even rhytmic feel out the thing.
Attached is an example that illustrates this very well: a small movie of one (quarter) note, picked out from one of my own audio files of the tiny Stagi. Vertical is the volume of the sound, horizontally is time. Be sure that your computer's sound is turned up.
Not only volume changes, of course, but also colour - overtones, harmonics, but that's another movie, probably overkill, unless someone out there insists
A word of warning here- I haven't tried to attach movies before and when I downloaded it (right-click (Win), control-click (Mac), I get the file but with an extra file extension - so it looks like this: "BellowsDynamics.wmv.avi".
Now, that's rubbish - simply remove the last ".avi", leaving only .wmv, and Bob's (whoever he is) your uncle...
(Available in QuickTime too, should somebody want that).
/Henrik
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Naaw, Mark - the club is larger than that - it's Izak Pearlman, Henk and I
Henk! you share the TV technique with none other than Izak Perlman. He like to watch soap opera daytime TV with the sound turned down......(for instance while I'm watching TV ). ... /Henrik
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"I will - repeat - will not be tempted to join in!"
...rushes out the office door, comes back 10 seconds later, sits down, looks at the Reply screen again, surpresses the urge, takes a deep breath... fingers are hovering above the keyboard, mimicking a concert pianist about to start... only to write:
Thanks, Howard - very well put!
/Henrik
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Girls & Boys of the World Wide Concertina Web!
The time has finally come to proceed to the next step in the building process - this time it is about holes and the start of an action thriller (pun intended).
I am talking about page 18 and 19, added right now to my site (adress at the bottom of this post) - click "[Enter the kitchen...]", "[Kitchen-table Concertina Building]" and a page number. Light is appearing at the end of the tunnel!
/Henrik
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Hello, Pádraig - you've been on my "to-buy"-list for while - now you just moved to the top. Lovely stuff!Hi everybody.I just wanted to inform some people that I have a new web site.
If you want to check it out this is the link:
There audio smaples of new album "bye a while" on it that you can listen to plus much more.
Please pass on link to anyone you think may like to have a look at it.
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No coincidence - definitely Jim!That's pretty scary Henk, reminds me of the NE Squeeze-in last year. You claim that resemblance's are coincidental, but I swear that's Jim Lucas on the left.Jody
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Session In Harrogate, Tuesday, May 2nd
in General Concertina Discussion
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Right! I did indeed have fun - a small, friendly group of people (no half beard, though).
Now, here's a question for you: I played "The First of August", a tune from the island Fanoe in south western Denmark - interestingly, a tune I picked out from Brian Peters (thanks, Brian, lovely playing). But, at the end, when I said it was a Danish tune, someone said: "Hmm - I didn't know the Danes celebrated Yorkshire Day".
Dear Dr. Timson, please enlighten me!
/Henrik