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From the right side it looks like a Jedcertina, which mimics a piano keyboard (white notes and black notes laid out as expected), but the Jedcertina has the same pattern on both sides and this one doesn’t. I don’t know what to make of the pattern on the left. I’ve never seen one like this.
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OK, so now we’re playing a melodica with arm power instead of lung power. Is nobody going to work in a joke about Fanny Power?
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Correct. The video appears here but is not actually resident on the server. All the data is at youtube. Same for images that display here based on a url. Only attachments that you physically upload to concertina.net count against your allowance.
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FWIW, I used up all my attachment allowance decades ago (I have been on concertina.net for a long time, since before the switch to Invision) but lately I find I can still post images.
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Hey, Matt— I can’t answer your attachments question, but perhaps you didn’t know that you can make the video appear here in your post by just typing (or pasting) the url as plain text without trying to turn it into a link.
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Note that there is no difference between how a reel in 4/4 time (often symbolized with a “C” for “common time” in place of the 4/4) or 2/2 time (a “C” with a vertical line through it, for “cut time”) are played. The only difference is the length of the notes: In 4/4 the quarter note takes the beat and faster notes are 8ths (“quavers,” in Paul’s British English) and 16ths, while in 2/2 all the notes are written as twice as long to decrease the number of flags or beams you have to draw to represent the quicker notes. From Wikipedia: Basic time signatures: 4/4 also known as common time (); 2/2 (alla breve), also known as cut time or cut-common time (); 2/4; 3/4; and 6/8 In other words,
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I really wonder whether you’re overthinking this. Many people, even with no musical background, have come to enjoy the Anglo just intuitively. Don’t worry about clefs or sheet music. Mess around with the instrument until something comes out of it that sounds promising. Work with that until you can make other reasonable sounds a little predictably. See if you can apply what you’ve discovered to imitating what you hear. Play what you hear. Try Alan Day’s audio tutor for Anglo concertina. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-P88mucXaqTHtx8vv1_1cqxg_1ih6C_r
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David Barnert replied to David Colpitts's topic in Instrument Construction & Repair
I just had occasion to revisit this thread two years later. Here’s Jim’s promised video: -
Eb is enharmonically equivalent to D#, not F#. It is a minor 3rd (actually an augmented 2nd) below F#.
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As to question 2, pianos can play 88 different notes, 39 below below middle C and 48 above middle C. Concertinas can play only a small fraction of the notes that a piano can. And on a C/G Anglo, three quarters of the notes it can play are above middle C, so the music is generally written in the treble clef, with only occasional (and optional) use of the bass clef.
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David Barnert replied to Jody Kruskal's topic in Instrument Construction & Repair
Robert Downey, Jr. played the title role in “Chaplin” in 1992. I never saw it, so I don’t know whether any of the violin scenes also featured an object that was not mirror-image symmetrical. -
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Why didn’t they just film the relevant scenes in mirror image? 🫤 That was the first mention of concertinas in this entire thread, not counting Don’s sig. -
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So did I. I even found a reference to the fact that Chaplin’s production assistant on “Limelight” was someone named Jerry Epstein. But further digging down the rabbit hole revealed that it was not “our” Jerry Epstein.