Kautilya
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I started having pain in the conection between my hand and thumb (right hand).
it passes after a while but evry time I play it again the pain comes back.
any I decided to take a break for a week or two.
any suggestions on what to do?
Try arnica oil = holland and barret (not cheap)or from welleda by ebay and post. Much cheaper abroad if you are in Germany or say Slovenia and in most supermarkets.
It either works for you or not, but if it does it gives pain relief in seconds. I keep bottle for quick smear for knee pain due to motorway accelerator pressure or lots of clutch changing - it's a v ancient anti-inflammatory which does not ;cure' but removes pain for a few hours...
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So I doubt you'll ever be able to get your mega session on Skype (or MSN or equivalent) soon, unless Skype allows to use a media server instead client to client like now, and then you'd need to have such server available.
v. useful.
I find conference call via skype with two participants London/say 3 in India/and China has weakest synch connection with the London participants and crystal clear to from/ and between India/china end.
When first demoed as a commercial offering back in 1997 at ITU Telecom Interactive I remember the mfr's trick was to have the two speakers facing away from each other so they couild not 'see' the time lag on each others'mouths! They 'heard' a normal two-way conversation.
Perhaps one would have to start with a canon - Three blinde mice knowing that each starter would naturally fall into place becoz ofthe time lag....
Let's keep pondering.....
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Skype Sessions?
http://forum.melodeon.net/index.php/topic,7175.0.html
Just on a side issue, I recently asked a skype expert whether the conference facility could be used for a world record sound squeezathon (and the webcam facility could be useful for maybe later a little YouTube concertina promotion for the most concertinas playing on line at the same time.
The maximum Skype conference call allows 24 “callers” which of course could be 24 tina groups with ‘X’ nos. of concertinas in each group.
But to get really big the technical question to be tackled is, whether each of 23 of the caller tina groups could each have another 23 conference “callers” etc etc. The numbers get quite big.
I am initially told the second stage would probably not work at the moment, but perhaps some of our tecchies may have a solution lurking somewhere.
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+Some useful finger exercises before taking on circus olifants, gravity defying tips, happy campers and tea, tinas and prawn cocktails.
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Ken Nicol and Friends -Saturday 16th July at 7.30pm Folk Night at the Preston Riversway Festival 2011 featuring Phil Cool, The Houghton Weavers, Ashley Hutchings, Barron Bradand Becky Mills Tickets:
£10 Concessions: £8.50 to book tel Box Office 0845 344 2012
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At Last!!! Granny's Attic (Garway Folk Weekend) - Duelin' Banjos
http://www.youtube.c...CDQUmalA&fmt=18
Only you could find it Leo - been trying to persuade various people at various sessions to try playing this, particklar on tina but no one has obliged (not been able I suspect....) - as for the whizkidd on tina and melodeon he is someone to watch now and for the future.
I still hope to see a duet of duelling tinas someplace sometime!
:)Hi Kautilya
Yeea HA! He does nice with both instruments. The concertina part is too short, but it's there, it's seen and it's heard so it's acceptable. It will be interesting to see if in future tunes, he finds a way to keep the concertina through the performance. I'll bet it'd be awesome.
There is only one other I've come across, a while back. I like the new one better.
The tune from the movie is slightly different from the original though.
Thanks
Leo
1. has the redneck belly at least...
2. a bit too slow for us....
:huh: been looking for dots for months but using a midi (which won't attach) slowed down/speeded up with audacity
will try to convert.
Slowed on Banjo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bzpULl91_Y&feature=related
I cant find my slow midi source again, but ABC for harp and lute to get a midi through tunetron at:
http://www.thefatlute.com/viewsong.aspx?songid=986
I suppose I had better start spelling with one l as US English!
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May I immodestly add:
More than Yes .. absolutely!
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At Last!!! Granny's Attic (Garway Folk Weekend) - Duelin' Banjos
http://www.youtube.c...CDQUmalA&fmt=18
Only you could find it Leo - been trying to persuade various people at various sessions to try playing this, particklar on tina but no one has obliged (not been able I suspect....) - as for the whizkidd on tina and melodeon he is someone to watch now and for the future.
I still hope to see a duet of duelling tinas someplace sometime!
:)Hi Kautilya
Yeea HA! He does nice with both instruments. The concertina part is too short, but it's there, it's seen and it's heard so it's acceptable. It will be interesting to see if in future tunes, he finds a way to keep the concertina through the performance. I'll bet it'd be awesome.
There is only one other I've come across, a while back. I like the new one better.
The tune from the movie is slightly different from the original though.
Thanks
Leo
1. has the redneck belly at least...
2. a bit too slow for us....
:huh: been looking for dots for months but using a midi (which won't attach) slowed down/speeded up with audacity
will try to convert.
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Thailand
Boeremusiek - Vaaljapie vastrap
Boeremusiek - Marico toe
Boeremusiek - Transvaalse wals
Boeremusiek - My nooientjie vastrap
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Czech Republic
A vogn shikh - Barbora Baranova - TV NOE
Kelbl - Barbora Baranova, Tomas Novotny, Jiri Pavlica and Josef Fojta
Sholem Aleykhem
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Japan
(Reels) The Limestone Rock, The Mountain Top.wmv
(Set dance) Jockey at the Fair.wmv
(Jigs) The Lilting Fisherman, The Humours of Ballymore.wmv
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Belgium
AH ! VOUS DIRAI-JE MAMAN:Concertina Diatonique
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL8BPFVObTU&fmt=18
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UK
Granny's Attic (Garway Folk Weekend) - Duelin' Banjos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VPCDQUmalA&fmt=18
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France
flambée montalbanaise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4po3MVpxee4&fmt=18
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Ireland
WicklowTrad.com's First Session In Healy's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ57u2LQs5I&fmt=18
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Thanks
Leo
At Last!!! Granny's Attic (Garway Folk Weekend) - Duelin' Banjos
http://www.youtube.c...CDQUmalA&fmt=18
Only you could find it Leo - been trying to persuade various people at various sessions to try playing this, particklar on tina but no one has obliged (not been able I suspect....) - as for the whizkidd on tina and melodeon he is someone to watch now and for the future.
I still hope to see a duet of duelling tinas someplace sometime!
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I just watched it in the mirror in front of me (I don't show up in mirrors....
:ph34r: )On reflecion, I can see your problem......
That sounds like a Drinkwater riposte!
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Now Youtube?.....
June 8 2011 - more copyright happenings.... Youtube's "new" copyright statement
In upload: "User grants only YouTube a licence to the content via the Terms of Service." and second option to tick is for Creative Commons.
Erm..can you explain that in English?
LDT retains the copyright but allows Youtube a non-exclusive licence to use it. you can restrict under private, and unlisted
plus:
I see (ref the "new" c-right tab) that after uploading to youtube and when item is live, going to edit your videos STILL allows a further restriction on use and copyright (controlled by the uploader) under embedding and syndication towards the very bottom of the details page.
It only shows an arrow next to word so you have to open up to be aware. Only recently got told about it. Stops AOl et al and TV stations lifting your stuff without paying... your Web-hit playing e.g. of that well known fugue "Cucumber run" !
Let's see how long it stays there.
that help? - maybe a little discussion by the masses at Brightlingsea would be useful to hear views...........maybe Abel Magwitch's lawyer could be persuaded...
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Alan Day leads his March of the Concertinas at the George Inn 6/6/11
© Alan Day ©InsightandMind no commercial repro.(sound)
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And now the video:
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Alan Day leads his March of the Concertinas at the George Inn 6/6/11
© Alan Day ©InsightandMind no commercial repro.(sound)
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I have been playing only since Christmas and I am having a small fingering problem with this. Its in the first phrase where it goes E D C B E.
I am looking for some advice on how to do this correctly - efficiently - etc.
I have tried crossing to the C line for the E and then staying on the C line for the D C B coming back to the E again and I have also tried playing the E on the C line and then coming back to the G Line for the D C B and then back for the E again.
Neither of these seems to flow and i could do with some advice as to which way to go to get it to flow.
I have a 20 key C/G Lachenal.
Any thoughts would be helpful.
David
Alan Day leads his March of the Concertinas at the George Inn 6/6/11
© Alan Day ©InsightandMind no commercial repro.(sound)
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Now Youtube?.....
June 8 2011 - more copyright happenings.... Youtube's "new" copyright statement
In upload: "User grants only YouTube a licence to the content via the Terms of Service." and second option to tick is for Creative Commons.
Video watchers will have seen that Bing and AOL have been taking youtube videos and selling banner advertising on them.
Maybe one of our lawyers could peruse:
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Thanks Richard.
Didn't mess with the video at all, taken with the built in camera in my Macbook....strange how it came out though eh?
Hi Chris
You get a lot of music out of that Lachenal.
Is it me or is the video of the Lachenal and the Carrol a reversed mirror image ?
Richard
I just watched it in the mirror in front of me (I don't show up in mirrors....
:ph34r: ) -
one time, i was playing at a session, and i looked down at my fingers. they were moving, pressing buttons, and i didn't realize i was playing at all because i didn't hear anything. to me, this is the golden standard that i strive for.
Reminds me of the (probably apocryphal) story of the time God wanted a change from all that angelic choir music, and asked Gabriel if he could find a couple of good instumentalists who could play something danceable.
"Sure," said Gabriel, "What about Ludwig van Beethoven and Turlough O'Carolan? One's a pianist, the other's a harper. Both innovative musicians, and both widely acclaimed when they were alive."
So next evening, Beethoven and Carolan found themselves on the celestial concert podium before throngs of saints and angels.
Half-way through their first piece, Carolan asked, "How is it going, Ludwig? Have the saints and angels started dancing yet?"
"What!" said Beethoven, "Have we already started playing?"
Cheers,
John
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Try to get a seat in a corner.
No don't listen to Graham!!! Please! Or everyone will start nicking the corner I always take, normally right across the other side of the room next to the punters, near the door for easy escape and easy access to the bar (and loo..). I can hear ALL the other players (individually) AND myself, BUT they can't hear all my dodgy notes as they are deafening each other. I really get to hear if my backing chords are working!
Plus I get space under the drinks table to put all the plastic bags from my supermarket trolley (Waitrose not Lidl)with my gear in, and room on the drinks' table to put out all my rubbish so I can switch around between instruments for different keys. I get ton(ne)s of room to stretch out the bellows but most important of all it really impresses the neighbouring punters who don't know the difference between a flat and a sharp and an ear-jarring dischord. They are impressed more by the theatricals, as I thrash the bellows soundlessly in and out using just the air button!
It can cost tho: I normally have keep my place safe from encroachment by bringing along a few friends who don;t drink and neither enjoy nor are displeased by my failings and I am happy to say they seem only available for sale or hire from the US..
http://www.valuebuy.net/monkeys.html
PS By the time the toon reaches the climactic end you can usually have worked out a chord that works and you do a big rasping flourish on your anglo just after the last note and the punters are even more impressed! I saw just that done last night at the George Squeeze Scrape and Blow and it highly impressed a holidayin visitor from the State Department in Wash DC
:rolleyes: We also all played March of the Concertinas led by Al Day himself - sound and video shortly...
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Monday June 6 2011, Monday 20.00 to 2300ish, Borough Rd just down from London Bridge Station, parking restrictions end after 1830..., free, all instruments and voices welcome.
Looks like we will hear a massed production with melodeons and tinas of "March of the Concertinas", as mass compound-os-er Alan Day and his stringplucker Will Fly are expected!
http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=12858
And we can get those Frenchies with a pimpernel "seeked" from Chris Drinkwater's Gardener's Delight....
Will Fly cannot make it at last minute for tonight but assume Alan Day is still on course to come but Dots for the March will be available
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come on, lassies and lads. This thing is about music as in sound, not dots or letters or theory. There have been 35 answers and numerous views, but only 6.5 folks contributions by people *playing.* It's not too difficult a piece (if I can figure it out, pretty much everybody can), so why discuss it for weeks and forget the music over it? Let's keep them mp3's coming! :-)
Quite - tho it is a reggub on the harmonica... but in the meantime here is something pour encourager les autres, from a batch already down in the e-forge for mangling: Rudi is quite right... easy peasy, Though notice the high level of difficult inexpertise to achieve the silences in the second instrumental effort. Does anyone play the spoons out there?
Magic - haven't laughed so much in weeks ... great bells!
Would also love you to hear the stunningly manipulative virtuosity of the Triangle performance - trouble is the ZoomH2 made file too big to upload here - nor is there any guarantee the forgemeister will not just throw it Flying out of the window.
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come on, lassies and lads. This thing is about music as in sound, not dots or letters or theory. There have been 35 answers and numerous views, but only 6.5 folks contributions by people *playing.* It's not too difficult a piece (if I can figure it out, pretty much everybody can), so why discuss it for weeks and forget the music over it? Let's keep them mp3's coming! :-)
Quite - tho it is a reggub on the harmonica... but in the meantime here is something pour encourager les autres, from a batch already down in the e-forge for mangling: Rudi is quite right... easy peasy, Though notice the high level of difficult inexpertise to achieve the silences in the second instrumental effort. Does anyone play the spoons out there?
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Sir, I stand by my smiley.
:rolleyes: best I can offer at the mo!
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Your smiley seems to be about showers on the camp site Chris? But tort u were staying upmarket no?
(Just apply Mornington Crescent Rules (Bodhran regulations, Ard Rí - C13th) to squeeze the pips out of the post itself
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Monday June 6 2011, Monday 20.00 to 2300ish, Borough Rd just down from London Bridge Station, parking restrictions end after 1830..., free, all instruments and voices welcome.
Looks like we will hear a massed production with melodeons and tinas of "March of the Concertinas", as mass compound-os-er Alan Day and his stringplucker Will Fly are expected!
http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=12858
And we can get those Frenchies with a pimpernel "seeked" from Chris Drinkwater's Gardener's Delight....
Skype lessons - side issue -Skype Squeezathon?
in Teaching and Learning
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Sounds like a cheap way of global publicity for the concertina!