Lakeland Fiddler
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Luckily for you , there are such. They are called "Heavy Duty, Double Lined, Photo Processing, Dark Room bags"
Probably easier and closer to hand, how about putting your concertina in a sweat shirt and playing it with your hands up the sleeves.
If it's really heavy duty muting you're after, try a duffle coat
You're joking, but I'm serious. A sweatshirt, been fluffy and not dence, will not provide sound insolation.
The best would be dark room bag, made of thick leather, but there aren't such. Those dencely woven cotton, double lined bags are pretty good, and they are made as though intended for the purpose.
One of my daughters is at college studying art and is now on a photography project. She has been doing her own developing and printing so I asked if I could borrow her darkroom bag for a muffler for the concertina. Within minutes of starting to play my hands were sweating, so much so that I could no longer hold on to the instrument. I conclude that a darkroom bag is not a good way to play quietly.
Edited for spelling
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One of my favorite albums atm is New Dogs, Old Tricks. Emma Reid (fiddle) Robert Harbron (English concertina).
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I'm starting to notice a theme here....maybe I need to buy a bodhran (don't know what one is)to hang on the wall?
I was in the pub when I realised I had left my bodhran on the back seat of my unlocked car. I dashed out but it was too late, there were already three other bodhrans thrown in on top of mine
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I started out on guitar 40 years ago. I've dabbled with flute, bodhran (is that a musical instrument
) mandolin, fiddle and now the English concertina. I would call the fiddle my main instrument. The Ec playing is not going very well atm because the fiddle is a jealous mistress and demands a lot of attention to keep the standard up. -
Yup I've got three Myspace profiles (I'm greedy). Check out the links bellow;
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On a similar theme to the previous poster, I just bought the Zoom H2 recorder. A very useful piece of kit for home and session recording.
http://www.samsontech.com/products/product...cfm?prodid=1916
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I have a couple of AKG C1000S mics that I plug into a small Behringer mixer, then into Audacity on my laptop. If you set the pan controls full left on one input and full right on the other you can record two separate channels or instruments.
My fiddle and mandolin sound great recorded this way, but the concertina sounds terrible. That probably has more to do with my playing ability than the recording gear though
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Cheers LDT!
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Ooh, I like that little fiddler
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My avatar is a photo someone took of me while I was performng on stage at Fiddle Hell in Buxton UK. This was my first public solo performance as a fiddler and was memorable because I had just taken possession of my new instrument, a Bridge Siren. I wonder how long it will be before I have a photo of my first solo concertina gig
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Do you know any more sessions that is closer to Wigton?
I seem to remember something about a Northumbrian pipers session somewhere in north Cumbria. I'll ask around and get back to you if I find anything.
Did you manage to get to Solfest this year, it's just up the road from you? I played with the Lakeland Fidddlers on the Drystone stage on the Saturday afternoon. Fantastic weekend
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I don't name my instruments, but I recently heard my wife telling one of her friends that I always seem to be going out with Vi, Mandy and Tina.....
.....Violin, mandolin and concertina
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I'll second Sam's suggestion about contacting the Lakeland Fiddlers.
Fredrika, to contact the Lakeland Fiddlers just click on the link in my signature line below. Feel free to send me a message or any enquiries.
We host a session on the second Tuesday of the month at the Hawkshead Brewery Beer Hall (above Wilf's Cafe) in Staveley, near Kendal in Cumbria. There are usually several concertina players, but all types of instruments are most welcome.
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Yay! You did it LDT!
Oops! That didn't come across how I intended it
No you didn't murder the tune. Like Dick says, that was a good effort. -
Yay! You did it LDT!
You've got the right idea, make sure you've got the right notes and the right time value for each note and play at a tempo you can manage; speed will come later. -
It's small enough to carry around, It doesn't need retuning everytime I get it out of the case, I don't have to keep changing strings and it doesn't need rosin
Some of my favourite cds are fiddlers who are accompanied by concertinas; Pete Cooper and Emma Reid spring to mind. I saw Robin Madge (member of this forum) play for the morris, I was blown away by the instrument. Since then I've met several players whose playing I greatly admire. I thought to myself, I wanna play one of those. However, I did overlook the fact that I can't play fiddle and conc at the same time so I can't accompany myself
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Morcombe and Wise
No, no! You mean Morecambe and Wise.
Eric's memorial is just down the road from here so I couldn't let you get away with that
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I may not play the concertina very well - but most people can't play it at all!
Or, to missquote someone else: "You may say I can't play he concertina, but you can't say that I didn't play."
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Look at it this way LDT; that makes you the best concertina player at work, you are well above average
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Wasn't there once a comedy sketch showing a Des O'Connor LP being used as bait on a fishing line? - the fish came leaping out of the water!
That was an advert for cigars, Hamlet iirc. The advert involved Russ Abbott lowering a speaker playing Des O'Connor records into the river. The fish gave themselves up and jumped straight into the keepnet.
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My "main" instrument is fiddle, I already knew the tunes so I just transferred them on over and it was a pretty smooth switch.
Yes, my experience too. I think it has something to do with the fiddle being tunes in fifths and the buttons in the centre rows of the Ec being fifths apart that make the tunes easy to work out. Sumthin' like that anyway
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try pairing the Manchester HP with the Liverpool HP for a tour of the NW
You've been reaing my set list
oh and its LDT (short for ladydetemps...my nom de plume for fan fiction stories) rather than LDV. lol! But I'll let you get away with thatOops! Sorry, Leyland Daf Trucks then. Charting your progress is a great idea, it's when you've had a bad day practicing that it does you good to look back and see just how far you've come with your playing.
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I was impressed with the Rickett's Hornpipe vid. I've just learnt that tune on fiddle for part of a dance set so I'll have to give it a try on the conc (I know that tune as Manchester Hornpipe).
Well done to LDV for having the courage to post a vid of her first experiments with the instrument. Go for it girl, you can do this
By the way, LDV always reminds me of Leyland Daf Vans
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I'm nearly at the end of my first week learning to play the English concertina. I can play a two octave scale in C or G at a reasonable pace and have started on a couple of tunes. I did have a go at a few tunes I found on a Youtube tutorial but got impatient to play something different. So, the first tune I learnt on my own this week was Persian Ricardo, otherwise known as Galopede. I'm also working on Horses Branzle, a bit tricky with the Bb in the third part, but I feel I've achieved something this week.
Can you remember the first tune you learnt on your first concertina?
Hmmm, I just thought. Maybe I should have posted this in the Learning and Teaching section. Sorry
The Lad With The Plaidie
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Well done on the video. I too, suffer from red button syndrome. I can play fiddle quite well until I press the record button or realise someone is looking and listening. One of the ways I'm learning to overcome this is to record everything I play. I don't listen back to everything, I usually just delete it, but it's amazing that sometimes I actually capture something worth listening to because I get used to the recorder being on.
I look forward to seeing your next video, it can only get easier from here