LDT

Didn't want to show favoritism to one forum over another...ok?

What I'm trying to find out is where I went wrong....If I'm given written music in the key of G how I came to chose completely different buttons to everyone else. Am I stupid or just....mental? Is it coz I tend to cross-row in order to use the buttons I can reach easily? This is why I took art rather than music at school

The easiest option is to use a concertina capo. where do I get one of those from?

I'm trying to think of a way of phrasing this question so it makes sense...here it goes: If I play a note and its in lets say the C row does that mean the tune is in the key of C? And what deferentiates one key from another is it coz its higher or lower pitch?

What about the exception that prooves the rule..is there any of those key-wise? Oh and if something is written in one key and you want to play it in another...how do you do that without sitting down and spending ages working it out?

I need help....how do I know a piece of music is a certain key? Or to put it another way how do you know what key tunes are in? And what makes it that key? (honestly I don't even quite know what a key is its just and ethereal label as far as I'm concerned). Yes I know posted this on melnet too...just wanted largest coverage for most answers.

a clue is my first name is Sarah....if you want the rest PM me. Oh and my access to facebook is now limited to my phone coz stupid work blocked facebook. >

Depends on the player and is it cheating? Ian Me...well I recorded myself playing for a ringtone so I would do that 'oh that's a nice tune wonder who's phone is ringing' thing. I definately know its me....I think 'Lambeth Walk' is my current ringtone.

I now have two options alternate Concertina & Melodeon practice daily or weekly or monthly. I've decided to do one week concertina next week melodeon....think that will leave less room for confusion.

What if your ringtone is concertina playing.....

I'm perfectly fine playing in front of a camera....just real people I can't get along with. even though potentially more people will see the video than would watch me play.

this thread is turning into the four yorkshiremen sketch

Eew, Beltuna, you didn't stint yourself then! well that's one thing buying a concertina taught me the hard way.....buy the most expensive you can afford and don't be stingy.

ah that was when the lesson was finished...I asked nicely if I could take a picture of his diagram. It was a bit like a laurel and hardy sketch with the wallpaper falling down and the most inopportune moments. lol!

Had a great time (more detailed review later.) Here are some pictures from the day and concert and some videos from the day http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F5FA9154BE3AE95C

I'm erm....tempted to take up the melodeon...is this an early sign of accordion-playing? It's a slippery slope LDT... Ian Its like an itch you just have to scratch.....I just have to find out if I can get along better playing a melodeon. Oh-oh, LDT! I don't like the sound of this ... However, things are seldom mono-causal. Take respiratory disease. Some people spend one evening in a smoky restaurant, and die of lung cancer. Some smoke all their lives, and get run over by a bus at the age of 85 while training for a Marathon. It's the genes ... I hope you have the same gene as I have - the multi-instrumentalist gene. This engenders a craving for any musical instrument that crosses your path, often accompanied by the delusion that you must be able to play it better than the other instruments you've tried hitherto. This is, of course, a pathological condition, but it has one beneficial side-effect: the effect of one particularly obnoxious instrument (e.g. melodion, banjo) is attenuated by your occuption with other, less virulent instruments (e.g. concertina, kazoo). The point at which I will really start worrying about you is when you give up the concertina for the melodeon. If you just add the melodion to your inventory, that's OK. Because then you'll probably add something else soon. I would suggest the autoharp, which is an extremely therapeutic instrument. More a medicine than a drug. It subdues the craving, because you can play really neat accompaniments after only a few hours (nay, minutes) of practice! And it also has buttons. Cheers, John (a well-wisher ) I went to melodeons and more at mendlesham at the weekend....bought one I think I've got melodeonitus. Although I've set some rules to stop the condition worsening.....I'm only allowed to (learn to) play traditional or folk tunes on it.....the concertina however I can (learn to) play what I like on it.

I'm erm....tempted to take up the melodeon...is this an early sign of accordion-playing? It's a slippery slope LDT... Ian Its like an itch you just have to scratch.....I just have to find out if I can get along better playing a melodeon.

I'm erm....tempted to take up the melodeon...is this an early sign of accordion-playing?

I was supposed to be going to see that too...but the person I was going with was ill and I wasn't 'allowed' to go to London at night on my own

Have you checked ebay?

nope but 'paint it black' or 'Satisfaction' would be on my list

I think she is in need of a good meal.

I think that twittering the process is a great idea. Will there be a webcam in the workshop next?

Never too late, Ian, on the assumption that I will be around for a year or two, yet. Now there's an idea for a workshop ........ Anglo for English concertina players. And english for anglo players? and duet for both....

Workshop recreated in emotes.....