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you need image edit software with layering capabilities..for those who don't own/can't afford photo shop you can use programs like GIMP which are free. You just make a new layer above your picture. Draw or type your 'watermark' then adjust the opacity to about 15% , then flatten image and upload. I would suggest text like [username] owns these images. Step by step guide http://nexissakura.deviantart.com/art/Wate...r-Gimp-38850240 DA has lots of tutorials on how to do it. If your still stuck pm me and I'll do it for you.

Just wondering....do you watermark your photo's? That might make it easier to spot a future scammer.

Have you got your concertina yet?

I will always practice and never play....everything is practice to me playing is what experts and performers do. I'm no performer or expert. I hate to have an audience. And I always make a mistake one the first couple of tries I can not play things straight through from a standing start without mistakes. If I'm trying to play in front of someone I do it wrong every time or get up to a point and keep getting stuck and go well I'm learning you get the gist of what it should sound like.

So perfect he plays without squeezing the concertina! lol! I'd love to learn that trick.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KKTknLD9eWw Bert in Mary Poppins

I'm rubbish at music...find it difficult to read the 'dots' and was told at school not to continue playing the recorder for a second term coz I was that bad. I've tried and failed the guitar. People run from the room sreaming when I attempt to sing. I've never really been able to get a whole song out of a instrument till now. If I can get a tune out of a concertina anyone can.

Yep. Big Bellowhead fan. I won the signed 'Matachin' album. Like 'Burlesque' I wasn't sure about some of the songs on the cd but once I saw them live it all made sense.

I have no idea what film it could represent...lol!

My first concertina....and only one at the moment so it has to be my favorite. ....well I wanted to make it look more interesting.

Hmmm....well I don't intend to be a professional....its more of a creative outlet for me..something to fill time. And a way of joining in when family and friends decide to play music and I feel left out because I'm 'musicly challenged'. (Not that they play anythng folkie its more your rock sorta music) Well then I'm the advanced concertina player in my household. I find it hard to judge my 'stage' because I don't learn in a linier way. I try to give myself a yardstick. I don't take it step by step...I tend to try something hard straight off...find its too difficult then try something eles...and keep going till I find something easy I can do. Then later I might try the hard thing again and if I still can't do it I go I go back to something easier. and so on and so forth untill eventually I can do the hard tune...or at least what I thought was a hard tune.

Have to make sure you don't put your hand on something before it dries or you might end up glued to your concertina...literally. lol!

Its a halloween concertina now then? You see I don't think super glue is meant for cuts...thats for sticking stuff like paper together. Was the cut on your hand or your fingers?

Very nice! I'm going to bring my Dipper to my grave, too, no way I'm ever going to sell. How careful are you with the instrument when you go in pubs with it? I'm thinking I'm never going to leave it by itself, even bring it with me in the toilets :-) Concertinas have been to the toilet with me, unless I've been absolutely certain that they would come to no harm, or be abducted, left where they were. You only need to get it wrong once, and I hope I never do. I would be really nervous about having a really expensive concertina...because I might loose or break it (I'm rather clumsy). If I had to go to the loo I'd padlock it to something that couldn't be moved...or give it to my mum to hold. lol!

I can usually pick up the melody fairly quickly (if the buttons I have to push/pull are written down...no hope of even getting started otherwise.)...but its just when I add the accompaniment it all goes pear shaped..quickest I've got both working is a month. So does that stick me inbetween novice and beginner? I''ve been trying to analise how I learn. I think because letters like 'A', or 'C' don't stick in my head what I do is a memorise the patterns my fingers make/numbers in the tabulature make and use the written music to judge the rythm. Now I just need to get it to stick in my head and be able to tie a letter to the buttons which I find really hard so then I can make sense to other people and they make sense to me when talking about notes.

ewwww..is that really blood or just paint?

I love the Dalek stickers. Doctor Who fan perhaps?

you did it but the picture is very small.

Which one! I'm down to 6 now. I just sold 3. They're the ones that are the brunt of most of the jokes on this forum. Just look at the picture! Do you see my shame?!? Well, DO YOU?? Thanks, you really know how to hurt a guy. Don't feel bad for me though, I did learn something about cricket, there are batsman and wicket keepers but no vampires. Or maybe they just don't show up in photos. At least you have a sporty concertina

How do you know if your a beginner, intermediate or advanced player? What criteria do you judge by?

Think "demographics", and how these might change as a result ......... or maybe not I do hope this goes well and doesn't go off topic or descend into arguing....if it all goes wrong again...I'll cry. I just can't seem to post anything that doesn't get derailed.

Here's one which visitors to my YouTube channel will recognise. In terms of the concertina, the quote is "Everything comes to he who waits". Ordered late March 1989, collected early March 1999. Dipper 36 key + drone C/G Anglo, named "Athena" by a friend who knows about these things! It's the only instrument which has been made for me, so I guess it's very personal, and I'd be very unlikely to ever sell it! As to the photograph, I saw the potential to use the light in such a way as to reduce the colour palette. By correctly exposing for the music, the amboyna wood of the concertina, and oak of the table have come out dark, giving an air of "age and mystery" to the photograph. The brass-capped buttons highlight, and contrast, well against the amboyna. Excellent..perfect example of what I'm looking from for this thread. *gold star for you* What's the tune on the paper?

No need to be a tattle tale. I'm already over the line of good taste wherever that may be, so I guess no picture. For us foreigners, what's a dodgy concertina? Or was it a dodgy picture? Thanks Leo *sigh* (dodgy....suspect aka anything 'adult content') I know you are all well behave and really should have kept my mouth shut...I do tend to blurt out posts. and think of worst case scenarios.

Just to clarify, I presume you mean "Like the picture". Why you like the concertina in the picture you've posted....but you can say why you like the picture too.

So here is the challenge to post a picture of your concertina. And why you like it.