Kautilya
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.... anybody fancy training to be a Sith Lord???
a who?
Wrong set of science fiction Dirge!!!
Try this for illumination (or not, as the case may be) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sith
Pleathe! We Thith are nithe people.
I rethent the way thome of u are taking the pith, for thothe of uth who thtrive to thpeak clearly about our intthrumentth to thecurity who want to unthcrew them to thee if they only make a thound.
The latht time through Westminster Airport (to thow that my boxth wath not a threat) they made me play thith piethe below. They gave me a laminated tetht card with the dotth -- after athking if I had packed my own box or if "Red" Rahm had done it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EgNXka2zW0 )
The thhame of it! - playing in front of a queue of fathelethth, thmirking thecurity thtaff -- you can thee them on camera in my holiday video below. Tho many of them!
One good thing tho, my holiday companion Guy Fawkth, (he playth a MacCann Duel with a lever action of 56 noteth per thec, and a Crabb thmooth action repeater built out of TITanium )-- they let HIM through after me without checking hith box (he utheth a double bathth cathe to carry it ath a violin cathe ith too thmall), coz they had heard mine and had learnt wot a conthertina ith. He wath happy.
In my holiday video, the bald woman wath a helpful Virgin hothteth who meetth VIPth (Vengeful Inthtrumental Playerth) when they make their way into Westminthter by Underground. Ath u may know, thith ith now owned by the GGTHYTTH (Google Global Thurveillance You Tube Thythtem), whoth originth date back to 1984 it theems.
:( yourth thintherely
:ph34r: Trutht u like my traditional Thith head gearPleathe forgive any poor noteth in my fingering. I wath tho angry by thith time I wath on a very thort futhe:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=4840424
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My fingering has now reached virtuaso speed (learnt from my master Alan-almost-a-Supa-new-Toon-a-Day, who is already written about as a legend in his own right as a ball-adeer (http://www.bartleby.com/243/121.html --although the music is missing for that ballad -- hint, hint, squeeze squeeze)
"This week I will mostly be..." moving on, therefore, to play my box with my feet.
Searching for appropriate scores I found this free site which Cnet SEARCH did not show, so could be useful (alongside Jeremy’s ICA library). Tho tina is not one of the listed instrument/score options.
http://www.free-scores.com/download-sheet-music.php?pdf=14230#
At the risk of repeating myself, the particular foot-piece I wanted (exercitium, 598) looks as though it could also be useful to those wanting some practice on the bass side of their tina, or indeed all the tina. (And maybe like the bass one Chris Algar was offering -- perhaps such a “one-way” would better suit foot movement praps).
The BWV 598 is also on youtube for authentic sound.
“Also, this week, I shall mostly be…” speeding it up by downloading an example from youtube by saving to PC and then using free prog to turn up the pace to match my virtuarsity. U might want to slow it down of course and make repeat loops, if you feel it is a little too quick to pick up at first hearing. (http://askville.amazon.com/download-YouTube-video-PC-play-disconnected-Internet/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=232658)
At my new virtuarsety speed I expect to have mastered the exertionum sputendium (with new specs at least) by the time I see ….. 2020. ….
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As an aside, I first met Andy at the World Marbles Championship of 1984; his morris team entered!
A walking distance from my house.
The Ring has now been repositioned back in the centre of the Car park after it was horrifically dug up from it's traditional position to be put on the grass verge. Good News from Tinsley Green home of The World Marbles Championships.
Al
So you DID lose your marbles! - that explains so much of your manic genius; and why, without embarrasment in public, you suddenly burst into action, twiddling your fingers all over the place at great speed while everyone else in the pub is sat quietly with their hands on their lap. I believe the technical term is Concerperger's syndrome.
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One thing I'm definitely interested in for the future is additional versions of the app with different sound sets. If I have the files, I can release new versions in just a matter of hours.
If someone is willing to do a very high quality (44.1 KHz 16-bit mono) recording of 5-10 seconds of every note on a vintage instrument and provide me with the files, I can come out with new versions that have different sounds. Don't worry about tuning, I can fix that myself.
Contact me via PM if interested...
Cheers,
Michael
INVENTOR PLAYER & DESIGNER
Please put that genius (!) Eskin label up for download with facility to change the name and address, so we the great acoustic unwashed can print it out! Will pay extra if it comes with a .pong smell attachment; or does it just have the paper foxing....I presume you poured black coffee over the keyboard to get that super Pepys' afterdinner effect
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Yes, that's the one. It brings tears to my eyes. Must be all those onions! I can't identify the tune but, thanks to your earlier mishtake, I now have a nice warm glow all over me.
Chris
Still a'in't letting u off the xmas cake.....
(keep it in a caketin(a) with your dry tinder!) or it will be zee pisstoles in zee snow until they reopen the outside George yard male shooting musicians' gallery -
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Very nice
and
Very cheap
hold the bellows tight with a quick release medical tourniquet
wrap in a (usually) free, soft, two handled cloth bag (the 'for life' type) with cloth handles uppermost to whip it out at mo's notice(at the checkout when u are short of cash, as the ticket inspector approaches and u are on the earlier train...)
And place it in your leather (even better, embroidered/ woven tapestry with zip lid vanity case /overnight) case (with carrying handle and shoulder strap) .
search:
These are good; and this one's cheap: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/retro-80s-constellation-tapestry-look-vanity-case_W0QQitemZ220536215608QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Tickets_Travel_Luggage_CA?hash=item3358fb9838
When you see what takes your fancy ask seller the inner dimensions. You will find little competition for these cases so take your time. Watch for high postage on low cost 99p items.
They usually have spare pockets good for screwdriver, safety pin (spring), spare straps, alcopops, anything for the weekend ...). Trad concertina cases have none of these.
And they normally have a lock that works AND a key....... Double zip ones take a small padlock.
I never had a bad one....
Also it won't get mixed up with all the anonymous black boxes which lie round all over the place at a session; you can see the thief walking out the door with yours...
Or you can make your own like this fellah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EgNXka2zW0
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Steve is getting us much nearer the truth
Stone circle expert also advises players should look at this on google earth(u will need to slowly zoom out once the location is found:
insert : 31°42'46.32"N 24° 4'52.78"W
He reports:
And if you want to see the remains of the antediluvian factory farm where they
annually harvested 'Cephalopodi concertinaridae' in their millions, just put Canary
Basin [or better: 31°42'46.32"N 24° 4'52.78"W ] into Google Earth search; and take your water,wings -- It's pretty big so after
Google does the deep dive bit you might have to swim up a fathom or two and a couple
of clicks to the north.
Original 'Atlantis' brand tinas, made from the air-dried
husks of little critters, succumbed to climate change. The breather valve was
later successfully re-engineered and AngloGerman schnorkel ensembles enjoyed a brief fad...."
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this IS the right file. (2MB mp3)
Seems it may have been from one of zose onion selleerz, from zee other side, who find houmself on Foulmath Quay... as explained after the toon.
That said, I expect Chris to bring some of his xmas cake next time ....to pay for all the plaudits I engineered for his lovely playing!!
:rolleyes: Will Michael's holy wand do the business for this one?
dawG - it is nearly 3a.m. - this tech stuff ain't pressing my buttons...
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Nice tune( in G) played there against all the odds as a slow reel almost an air. On The Session it's given as a 4/4 Strathspey... Listed by our own Geoff Wright in 2002
It's on Rhythms of the Wold record by Rod Stradling
Composer Joan MacDonald Boes ( Cape Breton I think?)
I first learned it from our old pal the late and much missed Barry Callaghan (melodeon)after a Sheffield City Morris practice in the 90s
A blessing on you Michael for that v interesting religious connection! and I will pass on both yr and MSW's naming.
Al - he was a newbie (on an Andrew Norman), tipped off by another Georger and he did not know about cNet. Name unknown!
But I will email this chat to Ch and Ca. in case he left a contact.
His name was Russel (the newbie on the anglo) and he is a friend of John Offord, fiddle player. And, yes the tune is called The Sweetness of Mary, after the Virgin Mary, and no, it wasn't Russel playing it, it was me, playing it on my Edeophone. It's been in my repertoire for 3 years, at least and I heard it first from the playing of Eliza Carthy. So, there!! The 'French' tune you made a reference to, was a French tune played by said Russel a bit later on in the evening. He had learned it from someone playing it at a Breton Dance in Cornwall and the chap who was playing it there, didn't know the name of it and neither did Chris shaw, although he thought is sounded familiar. And, yes, Chris has got Russel's email address.
Chris
NOW FOR THE REAL UNKNOWN TUNE - see new topic (to lessen my confusion!!)
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This is indeed a lovely tune. Do you know who was playing this in The George?
Al
That means I posted the wrong tune Chris!!!
I had terrible trouble (three hours) struggling with the file ....having first had to convert from MSV and then failing to get it to play as a WMV on UTube..
Did the new chap next to you, who asked wot box u had, play his piece before or after you ? Member he said 'is it only French tunes here?' and then started off when given zee go ahead ....
ere I go again... but not tonite.....
apologies everyone!
I confess, it was me Al, on my Edeophone. Been on my repertoire for at least three years! It's a Strathspey and one of my all-time favourite tunes.
Chris
Very nice Chris, how about a nice clean MP3 of it
Al
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Nice tune( in G) played there against all the odds as a slow reel almost an air. On The Session it's given as a 4/4 Strathspey... Listed by our own Geoff Wright in 2002
It's on Rhythms of the Wold record by Rod Stradling
Composer Joan MacDonald Boes ( Cape Breton I think?)
I first learned it from our old pal the late and much missed Barry Callaghan (melodeon)after a Sheffield City Morris practice in the 90s
A blessing on you Michael for that v interesting religious connection! and I will pass on both yr and MSW's naming.
Al - he was a newbie (on an Andrew Norman), tipped off by another Georger and he did not know about cNet. Name unknown!
But I will email this chat to Ch and Ca. in case he left a contact.
I am sure he will be back
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Nice tune( in G) played there against all the odds as a slow reel almost an air. On The Session it's given as a 4/4 Strathspey... Listed by our own Geoff Wright in 2002
It's on Rhythms of the Wold record by Rod Stradling
Composer Joan MacDonald Boes ( Cape Breton I think?)
I first learned it from our old pal the late and much missed Barry Callaghan (melodeon)after a Sheffield City Morris practice in the 90s
A blessing on you Michael for that v interesting religious connection! and I will pass on both yr and MSW's naming.
Al - he was a newbie (on an Andrew Norman), tipped off by another Georger and he did not know about cNet. Name unknown!
But I will email this chat to Ch and Ca. in case he left a contact.
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Steve is getting us much nearer the truth - a concertfeitina racket operating out of deepest witch country through International Concertfeitina Associations. The metronomic drip dripo drip of Speleological evidence also implicates lime from Malham Caves and similar in this racket.
This historial evidence is reinforced after consultation with a distinguished sounding off expert (Rufus Ethelbert Reed)who has studied the international movements of concertfitinas from his academic chair. It is clear that patent claims by Lachenal, Wheatstone et al. fly completeley out of the window in the face of documented visual evidence and close enconcertiners of the third kind.
RER tells me:
"Yes, I think they've also detected one on the surface of Mars. I like
finding concertinas...in films - pirates of the Spanish Main
circa 1650 jigging to a Lachenal etc." (by email)
This clearly means that the fossilised concertfeitinas were copied and refashioned into working instruments out of ship's plank by pirate networks and no doubt dastardly French Banditoneonistes and English privateers (film references also available from our Paris Cor-respondent Lady de Temps); and rebranded by Victorian and later makers....
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IDENTIFY UNKNOWN TUNE PLSE?
sorry about the Chat over/under toon but the offenders will be sent home in the snow in their French sandals (without socks)
Player said he heard from another player who had maybe heard it in France but no name....
tried to put up on youtube but failed so sorry about download hassle.
about 3.5MB
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I have great pleasure in announcing that I have now been appointed a UK dealer for the entry level concertinas from Concertina Connection. The first consignment is on its way and should be ready by this time next week. I have not yet set the retail price, but it will be significantly lower than the price they have previously been offered at in the UK.
The initial batch will include Jackie (treble English), Jack(baritone English), and Rochelle(C/G Anglo) models. I will also be able to offer the Elise (Hayden Duet) in the near future.
Hadaway Man! Well done and a prosperous 2010!
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Thanks Michael(A GD Anglo) and yes have a go at composing. Many attempts finish up as "Hold on I recognise that one", or a slower or faster tune of one you have already composed. A few listens on an MP3 normally tells you if it is worth progressing any further.
Kautilya the Charlwood event is held on the second Monday in the Month and is now at The Rising Sun so it will be 11th Jan for this one. (it was held at the Half Moon until we all turned up one night to find the pub closed).
It is a mixture of music and not a session.Mainly a sing around until it's my turn.
Al
Charlwood - Righteeho.
Yr post interrupted me as I was effortfully fingering what so far must be entitled Midnight Flop!
"His Master's" version however sounds v good and lilty - I hope one is not supposed to play-dance it outside in the buff at -3 under a full moon.)
[it also slows down without distortion for repeat phrase practising in Audacity.com -- for those who aint used, download audacity, dnload moonlight hop, open with audacity ( or open audacity and bring in hop file which will convert it).
Put cursor to right on sound waves where u want to end first bit to practise.
Move cursor to left to highlight waves/
Go to effects, select repeat and choose how many repetitions,
Go to effects and choose speed (NOT tempo) and minus it to about 35)
and then start listening/playing by hitting green play arrow....
You cant set these effects while it is playing.
To go back to start, yellow stop button and then double blue arrow back
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No sign of either of you two at The George Inn, either. Must be the weather!
Chris
But there was no Xmas cake...
Charlwood too far with present snowcast, but definitely on the agenda when bikeable in the sunny weather (despite two-way visa to go south of Efelant and Castle getting more expensive all the time...)
Be careful u don't go bellowsing around on the icy roads Al
BTW Al - it says on some event sites that it is at the Half Moon on Sundays, not Mondays ??? Jan 10 is a Sunday.. better earlier than late, no?!
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Was it a scam? Marien tells me the seller claimed that his name was Remus Obada. I rest my case.
whoops, bellows price was 129,562.00 !
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This is a load of Blarney (hot air, for the foreign brethren) - u can tell by the lack of an air button in the UV picture......
posted under the seal of Ard-Rí na hÉireann by his flunKey-player.
ps - I am sending for further analysis to the world's stone circle expert (a close friend) who is from Bushmills. Were any Bushmills whiskey bottles found nearby?
Quoth he:
"Not The Work Of Man?
Causeway Evidence Confounds Friend of Darwin.
I can best quote the well known observation by Thackeray on this one";
" ... and despite a most convivial night spent beyond the small hours in the
company of some local excisemen worthies in pursuit of certain vile Leprechauns
recently come within the vicinity of the Inn at nearby Bushmills, I would council
those in pursuit of enlightenment, or indeed simple amusement, that the fossil
concertinas at the Giant's Causeway, though worth seeing, are not worth going to
see. Bagged three of the blighters by sun up."
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Pearwood does have some very good acoustical properties and I would think that would be the reason that it has been used as long as it has in musical instruments (Some examples dating into the Middle Ages). The biggest problem is getting pieces of wood as pear wood does no like to grow straight and growing the tree for wood requires a bit different attention than growing the tree for fruit.
I use steam straightened Pear in the comb's of harmonicas I build. I seal the comb with a food grade acrylic to remove the problem of moisture. It does not seem to dull the sound one gets from the instrument that is the important part. I also use Lime wood in the reed pans I am currently working on to get a working hybrid Concertina built to do a production run. Only having fun making sure everything can not only meet my quality level I want but also making sure that what I am doing is reproducible on a small (max 50 instruments/year) schedule. Right now getting the hang of making my own springs and finalizing a few items on reeds as looking at three different producers of reeds to see who makes a reed that will meet what I want in sound as well as a few other requirements.
Hope everyone is having a Christmas season as it ends tomorrow and that you all had a enjoyable New Year celebration.
Michael
C&M - very informative and helpful. I will keep the less bendy cuts and tku!
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This is a load of Blarney (hot air, for the foreign brethren) - u can tell by the lack of an air button in the UV picture......
posted under the seal of Ard-Rí na hÉireann by his flunKey-player.
ps - I am sending for further analysis to the world's stone circle expert (a close friend) who is from Bushmills. Were any Bushmills whiskey bottles found nearby?
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I have modified this tune to give it a bit more drive.
Played in G
Three times through for those who like to play along.
Al
When u posted that I suspected u would not be at Southwark - but u were discussed! I nearly missed it too, falling asleep in front of the telly. I Dropped Ch and Ca off after (his van at death's door) with a HOP and a skip over to peckham rye and a Drive back in the Moonlight....
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Already removed... So was it a scam?
Maybe someone who did not read Theo's note paid the asking price on the box: 48,877.00 - could be a record.....
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