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David Barnert

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  1. Please tell us more: What kind of instruments were represented (all anglos? any interesting makes?) and what kind of music was played? Anything else to report?
  2. Do you have a different browser on your computer you could try it with?
  3. Thanks. I didn't mean to be discourteous. I just don't like to travel with the concertina unless there's a good reason.
  4. Thanks, but I'll be traveling with my wife and, as I said, I don't expect I'll be bringing the concertina.
  5. Nice. I see Juliette took my advice and used my favorite picture on her web site (at the bottom). Of course, I would like to have seen it on the CD cover. More unsolicited advice, Juliette: Add the address of the web site to your home page here at concertina.net. Click the "Edit my profile" link at the bottom and then paste it into the appropriate field.
  6. I'll be traveling to Seattle two weeks later. Wasn't thinking of bringing the concertina, but I would have if the date worked out.
  7. Here are some of the limericks I've submitted over the years. For my squeezebox, I paid quite a fee! But it got me to thinking:"Let's see... The cost is quite nice If you think what the price Would have been if the reeds weren't free!" Chemnitzer. Squeezebox. Bandoneon. Button Box. Concertina. Melodeon. This is the season To go to the Squeeze-In Where everyone plays the Accordion. My squeezebox is getting too old. No air will the bellows hold. The valves all leak, The springs all squeak. But it's worth lots of money, I'm told. -- Honorable mention 9/21/02 Jack gave his young niece a big squeeze. And she said to him, "Uncle Jack, PLEASE! A good hug is nice, But I won't tell you twice. Keep your fingers offa my keys!" A melodeon player named Jack Once played with his box on his back. He put one arm through here And the other 'round there. A talent I fear that I lack. -- Honorable mention 9/17/05 And one, written about me that earned Deirdre Cochrane 2nd prize three years ago. She told me it came to her at 5:00 in the morning. No comment. There were once several squeezable maidens With designs on Dave Barnert's fine Haydens. His touches inspired Their lust and desire But they didn't go home Hayden laden.
  8. Thanks. Nice stuff. I'm getting to know that white cinderblock wall real well.
  9. Don't expect the map to magically know about anybody that hasn't actually added themself to the database. It was first discussed in these forums back in February, click here. [Edited to remove errant period]
  10. Of course you're right. That's why I said "Sorry" even before I laughed. But I couldn't help laughing anyway. Sorry here, too. I just copied it from the previous post.
  11. Good question. I was jamming in the front parlor with the "big phat" crew from Philly. Barbara found the list of who was staying on the registration table behind me. She said there were only a few names on it (I never got a look at it). Before I knew it, she was leaving. The Philadelphians soon had to go, so I looked around and there were only a few people still there. This was around 4:00. I found Rich and asked who was staying and it was just him and me. He said he was planning to stay in his car, but he had to pack the whole "oddity" museum into it also and he wasn't sure how he was going to do it. That's when I decided not to stay. Before I left, I heard the woman who works there saying she was going to lock up soon and Rich said he'd have all his stuff out by then.
  12. Lay this one all on my brother. It would be hard to blame my parents (both long gone) since his actual birthday is a week and a half earlier. But it's just as well, Chris. I'd hate to make the trip out there and not have a chance to meet you.
  13. That shouldn't be necessary. Most concertina makers put their name on the inside face of the reed pan oriented so that it is upright when correctly inserted (and lines up with the one on the reed pan at the other end of the bellows). I'm sorry. That made my day. It looks like Jim has you on the right track. I'd agree that you ought to have a copy of Dave Elliot's concertina maintenance manual around for reference. Good luck.
  14. Well, another NESI has come and gone. Nobody wound up staying Sunday night. I had posted a "Playing By Ear" workshop for the late afternoon slot on Sunday and there were no takers, which suggests (to me, at least) that the event was pretty much over by then. The big news of the weekend (again, from my perspective) was the presence of a newly available Wheatstone Hayden instrument with 82 keys. The 48 keys on the right side contain the entire range of a standard treble English. The left keys are an octave lower (but there are only 34 of them) and include a low F and F# below the G. The instrument is fully chromatic from the bottom to the top of its range. Notes that are repeated as enharmonic equivalents on the same side (D#/Eb, for instance) are represented as two pairs of reeds and two complete lever/pad assemblies, rather than linked keys. The Button Box is offering it (on consignment) for $15,500. I found playing it fun (in a novelty sort of way) but a bit disorienting. It was easy to get lost in the expansive sea of buttons and difficult to be sure that both hands were oriented over buttons that corresponded to the same key. Pumping the bellows took a great deal of energy, so that when I went back to my 46-key Hayden, I felt like I had a jet engine in my hands. For anyone interested, here is the layout of the 82 buttons. Notes on squeeze and draw are the same (like English Concertina). Air vent button on the right (not shown here). Each row is an octave higher than the row two below, and the left hand is an octave lower than corresponding keys on the right. ( C ) = middle C (both hands). The bounds of the standard 46-key Hayden is outlined in slashes and underscores. | LEFT HAND || RIGHT HAND | || | || Bb C | || Eb__F___G__ A B | _____________ || Ab \Bb C D\__E___F#__G# | Eb /F G A B\______ || Eb/ F G A B C#\ D# | Ab /Bb (C) D E F# G# \ || Ab/ Bb C D E F# G#\ | Eb\ F G A B C# D#/ || Eb\ F G A B C# D#\ | Ab Bb\_C___D___E___F#__G#/ || Ab Bb\(C)__D___E___F#__G#_/ | F G A B C# D# || G A B C# D# | F# G# || G# | || |(5th Finger) (Thumb) || (Thumb) (5th Finger) | ==========HAND STRAP======== || ======HAND STRAP======== I played the beast (as a bass concertina) for the "Concertina Band" workshop and for the band's performance at Saturday night's talent show. Another highlight of the talent show was Howie Leifer's (concertina.net's "Radioboy") surreal offering (see picture). All you can see of Howie here is his mouth and his hands. The puppet is only about 4 feet tall. He sang an intentionally (and hysterically) awful rendition of "He Played the Concertina as the Ship Went Down." Other workshops I went to were a Hayden discussion/roundtable with Rich Morse, an "English Cayley" session where we played electrified swing versions of Playford Tunes, Ken Sweeny's master class-type offering, and my own Morris Tunes class, which even included a little impromptu Morris Dancing this year. I had a great time. [Edited to clean up button diagram]
  15. One of these years I hope to be able to make it, and was actually seriously looking at this year, but my brother decided to throw himself a 50th birthday party that weekend, and I shouldn't miss it.
  16. Congratulations. Of course it doesn't help that sometimes it's spelled "contradance" and sometimes it's "contra dance."
  17. The band is from New England, but the dance was filmed in Boulder, Colorado, according to the caption. I looked at the beginning, and then I looked at the 31 minute mark. They were still playing the same tune! I'm afraid to look at the 4 hour mark.
  18. Except maybe for the one I posted back in June... Seriously though, you're right. That's Morris Dancing. Whole 'nother smoke.
  19. Joke at work today: Vulture in an airport, dragging the carcass of a dead mule up to the ticket counter. Ticket agent: I hope you're not thinking of checking that thing as baggage! Vulture: Nope. It's carryon.
  20. AFAIK, there have only ever been two other David Barnerts besides me, both relatives. One died before I was born and the other I've also never met, although he is the son of a cousin and I remember the day he was born (33 years ago this week). But I am frequently complimented on insightful letters to the editor that occasionally appear in a local paper that invariably turn out to have been written by a David Barnett.
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