David Barnert

To put it in perspective, in modern equal temperament, where A = 440, C = 523.25... Here’s the math: A semitone = 12th root of 2, a minor 3rd (A-C) is three semitones, or that cubed, or 4th root of 2 = 1.189... . That x 440 = 523.25... .

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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.

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,

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

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#.

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.

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.

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.

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.

March 25, 2024 issue.

To play a tune, there would need to be many reeds, and not miniature ones, either. The tune the music box plays has a range of an octave and a major 6th, which would require 13 reeds (more if you want an accompaniment like the music box plays), the smallest being big enough to make a reasonable sound.

Wouldn’t that be Drunck’s March?

But... His fingers aren’t touching the buttons! [... but I must say, he’s got the “concertina face” down perfectly!]

As usual, the guy “playing” the concertina doesn’t have his fingers anywhere near the buttons.

Just to set the record straight: His name is Dana Johnson. He is located in Kensington, Maryland.

Sorry to hear. I knew Kurt from the (at least) two times he attended the NorthEast Squeeze-In (NESI), back when it was at Bucksteep Manor (pre-2011).

If the choice is before or after, definitely after.

How about tunes for Pi day (3.14)?

Irish traditional music.

Sorry. Concertina.net is the closest I get to social media.

What was her musical background (if any) before she found her way to the concertina?

🫤 I’d love to see what you were going to say, here.