StuartEstell
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You could perhaps do a halfway house Adrian - maybe record with a good quality portable recorder like a Zoom, in a church with a nice acoustic, to reduce (eliminate?) costs. Do an online release and at least the few dozen of us would get to enjoy it
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I shall play the Devonshire Elbow Maneouvre for Regent's Park, under the 1869 Cancrizans amendments to the Waverley rules. I trust this is in order.
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I presume the delays are on the Northern Line?
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It's one of the reasons I took up Jeffries duet, Rik. I couldn't afford a big Jeffries anglo, but the duets are _much_ cheaper (or were, at least). Lots of instrument for the money.
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Hearing these sorts of Elizabethan textures transferred so successfully to anglo makes me very happy indeed. Might you consider doing an album of this sort of thing Adrian?
I imagine you feel about performing it the way I did about performing the Brahms left-hand piano arrangement of the famous Bach D minor Chaconne. In the end I just accepted that violinists would always hate me for it and performed it regardless
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Quite - there's nothing wrong with moving the key of the song as long as it's vocally comfortable. However, I usually find myself wanting to move songs down, and end up playing a lot of songs in F and Bb. But not on a G/D anglo!
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Samantha wishes to make it known she is feeling thoroughly obfuscated.
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Agreed with all of the above - F on C/G and C on G/D sit very well on the instrument once you get used to them.
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The other Samantha is of course the helpful (yet strangely silent) assistant on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, the radio programme whence the game comes...
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Samantha will tolerate no off-colour jokes about being off-side, particularly by her gentleman-friends. And neither will Mrs. Trellis.
Probably not too fond of off-topic "humour", either. But I'll ask Samantha when I see her next... in about 10 days time.
Don't tell me - you're teaching her concertina: you squeeze while she plays with the buttons. Actually,I hear she's joined a concertina band. She's playing treble at the moment but she says she'd do anything for a tenner.
She plays anglo (though primarily French horn) and hosts the annual Arran Concertina Event, which I believe celebrates its 11th year this coming October.
I fear we are referring to different Samanthas, Jim.
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Samantha will tolerate no off-colour jokes about being off-side, particularly by her gentleman-friends. And neither will Mrs. Trellis.
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If anyone is still interested in this and didn't pick up the vinyl edition, it appears that a CD version is now available for pre-order:
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Which side's going in to bat first?
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Nothing wrong with set lists - preferably taped securely to the floor so that they don't go flying off into the distance unexpectedly!
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In the end we did Somewhere Over the Rainbow, the Haymakers, and American Pie (minus a couple of forgotten verses... well, I'd only had a day or so to revise it!) - hugely enjoyable, and they all carried on singing afterwards, leading to impromptu renditions of various Monkees songs and all sorts of other stuff!
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I did once have a go at playing some Webern piano music on Maccann duet. It was very difficult.
To be honest, it didn't sound right either.
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Thanks all for these suggestions - I must admit I wasn't initially thinking outside of the traditional repertoire, but this will give me plenty to look at tonight.
Nothing like a bit of short-notice preparation!
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Playing around with the tune a little. On the G/D Anglo, the only alternative to D is to play it in G - with most of the melody in the A part on the left side. Still looking for the chording I want. Sorta cool, but I don't think it really works.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68325595/C.net%20Tune%20of%20the%20Month/Slocket_low_Besser.MP3
Played in G on a Jeffries 30 button G/D Anglo.
Jim, it should be possible to play it while keeping the melody entirely on the right hand in G on a G/D, although it'll involve a fair amount of playing across the rows. I'm guessing that your instrument doesn't have a high C - but if you double some of the other high notes an octave lower you bring about a kind of trompe l'oreille, and no-one will miss that top C. If I get chance tonight I'll demonstrate what I mean.
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It occurs to me that I could get Somewhere Over the Rainbow in there.
I remember being reduced to a giggling loon by Douglas Rogers, many years ago, as I was tootling around with that tune on my Jeff duet, when he walked over and said, "oh, that's the one about the pie... you know, somewhere over the rainbow, weigh a pie" - complete with mime suggesting the assessment of fairly heavy pastry-based goods...
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Thanks Don, glad you enjoyed it.
I'm sure there'll be one along in a minute
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.. in Motorhead terms, it can end up with an "Everything Louder than Everything Else" scenario!
Wayhay! Someone cited Motörhead in a discussion on Concertina net. My life is complete. Anglo players: born to raise Hell and we do it real well!
I hoped someone would appreciate that
I once wore my "Everything Louder than Everything Else" Motorhead shirt to a concertina band weekend, to much general amusement."We are the Road Crew" on concertina? Has to be done, doesn't it?
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Never come across it, no! I'll look that up, thanks Jim.
Of course "Lumps of Plum Pudding" now comes to mind too - "...she gave me so much, I thought I would die..."
Edit: a Google search directs me back to some posts on Concertina.net from a while back - there's no other evidence of this parody online
You wouldn't still happen to have the words, would you Jim? -
Your point about diatonic instruments reinforces the advantage of Anglos and melodeons for English dance music.
Despite being an anglo player I'd respectfully disagree, as I think it's possible to do whatever one wants with most instruments - but then difference makes the world go round
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Mike, I use a one-row melodeon for much the same purpose. Musical decluttering!
Tenth Charles Wheatstone Memorial Mornington Crescent Game - Slightly
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My only regret is that Parcel Farce refused carriage to the second Balthazar.