Jim Wright

HEY, Guess what? This is NOT Jim Wright. This is Bob Tedrow. I am currently logged in as Jim Wright. This is an odd glitch. Something is wrong with the software. Bob Tedrow

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I put popcorn in the tune-o-tron if anybody wants some~!

Sorry that I have not been back. I have gotten so busy and I am not sure if I can help you. I hope you find something and if I get lucky with something I will let you know.

Now that i am playing harder I am going to loosen mine. Also since I have been playing harder I have started automatically using free fingers like legs to stablize with I don't know if that is bad or good but so far it helps hold everything tight.

I have mine probably too tight because my fingers are fully bent not curved. I do not know what is correct. I have another question and I just know that you can answer it. How do you finger the fourth and fifth buttons with the right hand on a 20 button anglo? so far I have not found anything on my own that seems to be right! I thank you in advance Jim for sharing your wisdom on the subject. Jim

Hello everyone! I've been distracted for a while and came to see about getting another question answered but could not resist this post. I have just started learning concertina but play classical guitar. I have had pretty good luck with the intermediate level renaissiance era guitar music sounding very well. Also I have had fun with the Wizard Of Oz music. so far "Over the rainbow"," It Really was no miracle","come out","The coroners song""ding dong the witch is dead, lolipop guild, if--brain,merry--land of,,,, All these have sounded great on my anglo. some others ,,,,all in all....a mighty fortress is our god...penny lane...casy junior,,,,feed the birds,,,its a small world,,, send in the clowns,,,Lavender blue dilly dilly,,,siamese cat song (if you fake the harmony),,,,,,,,,,zip a dee do da,,well bunches!!! with my 20 button anglo I have not had much luck with minor keyed tunes I always thought that green sleeves or el pasa condor or scarbourough fair would sound good. well you all are very nice and I wish we could all sit in my living room with our instruments of all kinds and talk about all these fun things. your friend Jim

And that's a wrap!!! The End!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I have no problem tuning my guitar to droped D. But I can't tuna fish because my bass is so slimey if I try I always drop D Thing. I think!!!

Somewhere on this site I saw where TablEdit was software that you could use to convert standard notation to ABC. Thats how I was able to post my tune in the Tune-O-Tron.

Hey! This is a pretty interesting post! Have you seen it yet?

Thats plenty of time I just need a tune to arrange. I will be looking around and meantime you let me know if you have any ideas. Will people be dancing to it? Do you think 3/4 time would be good? about what tempo?

Villa Lobos' music, for guitar anyway, seems to be either totally amazing and beautifull or I totally don't get it. But the piece Jim mentioned and choros and prelude #2for guitar are my all time favorites.

I would be glad to arrange something for you. you can give me the song or I can find one for you. How much time do you have to learn it?

did i Say gentl?

Did I say angleS ?

In the early 1900's, the man who eventually became the national music director for the country of Brazil Villa Lobos used to do stuff like that. He composed a piece about a city there or something,and the way he did it was to take graph paper and assign notes on the Y axis and note length on the X or something like that and then he took a picture of the skyline of the city and traced it on the graph and that was what he used for his melody. I tried it one time and what I got back was wierd. Anyway I got a real kick out of "cabbage" and just had to say something.

I've been checking out the tunes in the Tune-O-Tron and while playing "Cabbage" by Jim Lucas, it suddenly dawned on me what he had done; Check out the first 7 notes. As if the tune itself wasn't entertaining enough,like a box of cracker jacks I found a toy surprise inside!!!!!!!! "Crackerjack tune with a toy surprise" "Bravo Jim"

Nice site! Thanks for the post!

OK, I'm starting to get better at this! for some reason I would make one correction then another would come back that I had already fixed. I think I got it all fixed at the same time. Also, I hammered out the first variation today and I will post it when I can repeat it consistantly enough to write something down.

Jim, I think I have got the corrections made on the tunotron kemp's jig, please take a look and see if it is better.

Squeeze! Squeeze! Squeeze! all the morning long; I have been squeezing my concertina untill I thought that I myself from all that kneading would soften up and flow like honey into it. I squeezed untill a strange sort of warmth had softly caressed me kind of like warm hands do on a cold morning to a cow. Trance like, I found myself unwittingly squeezing my wife mistaking her for my gental concertina,and, I might add, what an abounding and affectionate, friendly and loving feeling did that cause. Then at last I was contiually squeezing everone in sight not wanting to leave anyone out, all the while looking up into their eyes I would say,"Oh! my dear fellow humans. Why should we longer tolerate any social predjudice, or know the slightest envy! Come! Let us all squeeze ourselves into each other. Come! Let us all squeeze ourselves into the universal goods of life. Come! Let us squeeze ourselves into the very boxes and buttons of kindness. Oh! I would have squeezed the marrow out of that feeling; if I could I would Keep squeezing forever.But,alas, man must in all cases eventually lower, or at lease shift, his thoughts from that higher plane and attend to the troublesome grind of everyday life. But lets not be discouraged, but, be incouraged by thoughts of when we meet in glory and we see those long rows of angles in paradise, it will not be the harp that they are plucking. No! They will fill our ears with heavenly sounds, each with their hands squeezing.

Oh! and by the way. Thank you Stephen for your input. I think the blue notes had something to do with the instrument choice. I started the tab as an accordian tab and if you pull the midi properties up on it and open the tuneing tab its different, so, I changed instruments to write it and then change back to accordian to play it back and the blue notes were gone!!!!!!!

Well said Mr.Lucas! Thats exactly what I wanted to hear! I did present it rough but I figured my best would be rough anyway. The best part is is that i'm haveing fun with it now and I feel like i'm still climbing that first tall hill on a roller coaster with all best fun just ahead! The concertina is such a fun instrument and I am glad that I found it! Thanks for your input