David Barnert
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5 minutes ago, vpo said:
I upload to YT first then ‘share’ from there to here and elsewhere. Cnet tells me I have used 0% of my attachment allowance
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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5 minutes ago, Matthew Heumann said:
Steve: You were correct-- I have apparently used ALL my allotted attachment allowance.
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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16 hours ago, Paul_Hardy said:
A reel is a faster tune, usually written in 4/4 but which has two stronger beats in each bar, so can sometimes be written in 2/2.
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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On 5/13/2022 at 8:55 AM, David Colpitts said:
And, Jim or David, any extant copy of that Georgy Girl recording?
On 5/15/2022 at 7:40 PM, Jim Bayliss said:I'll make a recording and will let you know when it's on my YouTube channel. Thanks for your interest.
I just had occasion to revisit this thread two years later. Here’s Jim’s promised video:
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1 hour ago, Kelteglow said:
Just a thought 1 I was once told that the common key for male and femail voices in church is Eb same as F# Bob
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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On 3/23/2024 at 1:57 AM, JimR said:
Robert Downey Jr learned to play the violin left handed for his portrayal of Chaplin.
On 3/23/2024 at 2:12 AM, David Barnert said:Why didn’t they just film the relevant scenes in mirror image?
12 minutes ago, Anglo-Irishman said:I don't know how easy it would have been in those days to reverse the image on a celluloid film.
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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9 minutes ago, JimR said:
During the Academy Awards broadcast Jimmy Kimmel mentioned that Robert Downey Jr learned to play the violin left handed for his portrayal of Chaplin. Quite a feat, I'd imagine, ...
Why didn’t they just film the relevant scenes in mirror image? 🫤
11 minutes ago, JimR said:... and not at all concertina related.
That was the first mention of concertinas in this entire thread, not counting Don’s sig.
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18 minutes ago, ttonon said:
After looking at this video, I spent a bit of time reading about the interesting lives of both Keaton and Chaplin.
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.
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March 25, 2024 issue.
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16 minutes ago, Richard Mellish said:
I'm disappointed that the sound is that of an ordinary musical box, entirely unrelated to the instrument that he is supposedly playing. If the head etc movements are produced by a "single-air cylinder movement" it's a pity that that doesn't also blow air past reeds.
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.
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On 3/18/2024 at 10:37 AM, Paul_Hardy said:
This properly should be called Monck's March...
4 hours ago, Jody Kruskal said:... I remember a pick-up side at Pinewoods Camp dancing Drunk's March
Wouldn’t that be Drunck’s March?
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But...
His fingers aren’t touching the buttons!
[... but I must say, he’s got the “concertina face” down perfectly!]
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As usual, the guy “playing” the concertina doesn’t have his fingers anywhere near the buttons.
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7 hours ago, Sunny22 said:
I remember communicating with Dana Kensington on this thread 3 years ago...
Just to set the record straight: His name is Dana Johnson. He is located in Kensington, Maryland.
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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).
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16 hours ago, richard said:
Should one play concertina after sex?
If the choice is before or after, definitely after.
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How about tunes for Pi day (3.14)?
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24 minutes ago, Victor F said:
What's ITM?
Irish traditional music.
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17 hours ago, alex_holden said:
I think Wally probably meant "I agree with this statement". It's a common shorthand on social media.
2 hours ago, Wally Carroll said:This also
Sorry. Concertina.net is the closest I get to social media.
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1 hour ago, Alan Day said:
It was not that long ago that she was knocking on my door asking me what she had just purchased..
She has developed into an incredible player and this set of tunes shows her technical ability is reaching new heights.
Al
What was her musical background (if any) before she found her way to the concertina?
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1 hour ago, Wally Carroll said:
This
🫤 I’d love to see what you were going to say, here.
Interesting notes on "Old Pitch" in concertinas
in General Concertina Discussion
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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... .