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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....

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

Hadaway Man! Well done and a prosperous 2010!

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

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?!

whoops, bellows price was 129,562.00 !

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."

C&M - very informative and helpful. I will keep the less bendy cuts and tku!

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?

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.... 10 turned up -- cold and frosty....

Maybe someone who did not read Theo's note paid the asking price on the box: 48,877.00 - could be a record.....

Is there any role, for, or particular advantages of pearwood (100 year old) in tina/reed instrument construction? It seems very dense and hard. It seems it is used for woodwind instruments but don't know why. Resonance? Praps it does not warp? Or do I put it on the fire....(it burns very poorly)? "Pear (pyrus communis - europe): pearwood is a light-colored, very fine grained, hard wood. The wood is pink-brown to peach colored. It is sometimes dyed black as an ebony substitute for fingerboards on less expensive instruments. Larger pieces are harder to come by. Sometimes exhibits flame figure." http://www.fbbcustom.com/woodstar/woods.html tks

Is that someone's name punched into the leather lower part left and right ? cant make it out.

prepare Bolero menheer! http://www.gileslandscapes.co.uk/fenland-ice-skating.aspx

Welcome Ross - I think you are going to have a lot of reeding to do to settle in - there are millions of posts on reeds!!

I asked something similar for an air button some weeks ago and in the end I went inside and found there were TWO springs fighting me on the lever. This was was why it was so hard to push in at full bellows and I was having to use the 'name-plate' hole to get some leverage on the bellows pull. I have removed one of the two springs and it is so much easier and 'seems' to be holding back the air... seems.....but I suspect escapes somewhere else, but I think that could be one of the usual mystery leaks. I may (wrong thread I am sure, and don't laugh) try putting part of a lit anti-mosquito coil or an incense cone (http://www.simplyincense.co.uk/products.asp?cid=273) under open (one end only)bellows. (The potential air leak may be somewhere where the usual light trick don't show. I already roughed up the chamois and the poor kid is getting thin in some outside edge areas and may need some paper sheet filler (Thank you Theo). (In the past I have used cigarette papers and sometimes the thicker, piece of card, which is there to tell you that there are only five thin papers left in a pack. I use regular size Swan papers but of course for long edges maybe the much longer cigarette papers might be useful but I have no experience of them. Maybe the ready-glued paper edge also helps sealing with the other glue.) The coil http://www.roamingfox.co.uk/Mosquito-Coils-pr-16414.html?gclid=CJ3V3Mrrhp8CFZ1h4wodzDTMJA may be a pain to position, whereas the cone sits flat. A joss stick would be unstable and risky; though the stick might "reach the parts which cone and coil do not... " Of course Dirge may have some spare, (funereal of course) incense which he sells on the side... These cones and coils do not flame once lit, they just glow dimly and slowly emit smoke. If I chooose sandalwood perfume, at least the box will smell nicer than all those sawdust, beer and pub smoke smells which folk gloat about on their antique peformers... Judging from the front page of today's Sat/Sun FT the Pope has been trying the same technique on his Chemnitzer but maybe online only on Sunday ft.com - New Year Message. I am not sure how to post a smoke signal here about any resulting data. I know it has to be white for success and black for go back and try again... PS re earlier sneezing, coughing and supect fungus, I bought the anti-fungal liquid spray (not powder spray) and started trying it (tks v much for the earlier advice and guidance!) I was quite, perhaps over, cautious where I sprayed inside the bellows, away from reeds, so do not know if it has worked yet... I can't smell the spray... However, I can give specific brand details, costs and where to buy if anyone wants.

Marien - did u find what you needed? If not I expect to be popping into the British Library music archive in near future, so let me know, so that, if something u want is available, I can call it up. (I normally make requests online before I go in so that material is already waiting for me rather than a couple of hours if ordered after arriving) and there is a machine which can do digital copies for 10 or 20 p a page. pps - did you check with the Intl Conc Associ librarian?

Here u are Theo - wise advice: you warned people not to give the name and email etc of the person under discussion "Re: Warning - irresponsible eBayer « Reply #78 on: November 28, 2009, 08:35:41 AM » Reply with quoteQuote I've removed two posts with links to websites other than ebay which identify an individual person who might be the same person as the ebay seller at the centre of this discussion. This is getting into tricky areas and is quite unnecessary. Reporting questionable ebay activity is a valuable service to the community, but please lets keep it to ebay details only please people! " Theo, as you know, sitting astride both fora, melodeon players do not seem to face so many buy and sell problems on ebay as do concertina buyers: this is why the long melodeon.net thread was so informative. re old pics showing up on ebay - usually doubtful sales have been withdrawn by posters or ebay straight after the sharp eyes spot them. So the rest of us do not get a chance to see the actual item (to be able to watch for its reappearence in another place but usually the same form). Berlin ramblings were just a little light-hearted seasonal cryptic-xword type digression. Of course no one needs to read if they are not interested, but there are a few I know who will be interested. Happy New Year in an hour or 2!

Do you have the ABC or the midi for the beat please on my battered bisonskin bodhran?

And satisfying new depths for the bass tina thunderers!

Simon (hopefully u are still reading this!) do take up some of the many kind offers to have a try on a box (BUT you did not tell us in which country, town you are) but beware just buying from anyone on ebay. Go see the just-posted-threat under buy and sell about Bay Watch e-spy Berlin etc. ...as well as reading carefully Panjandrum Paul Schwarz's warnings at the top of buy and sell. Folk here know the reputable, regular dealers and repairers who also sell on ebay and can tell you those and u can watch what comes up from them.

Riveting stuff (No! Not the Wheatstone vs Lachenal debate....that would be in repair and construction. ) One interesting element is how the original pictures of long-ended ebay items come up through links in the various posts. The melodeonogiochisti have talents we lack in this respect. Makes the whole picture more interesting...... And there is still ebay action relating to this story, running for the next 7 days (I won't spoil it for you by telling you the plot ...) Ah George! Those vodka and schnapps days long gone by. Seems only like y'day, carrying a massive "empty" bass concertina case through Checkpoint Charlie, "reading" a copy of Pravda in Friedrichstrasse underground station and dropping Smiley sPoo(hstic)ks in Potsdam at the Glienicker Brücke to watch them cross to the other side ... (Sorry! Couldn't resist setting the scene and atmosphere... but be careful, the Stagi muzikpolizei are probably watching us all) I find just two indirect mentions of the seller on cnet. So I assume this 'true story' from the city that never schleeps, is as fresh for some other tina players as it was to me** And as u read on do heed Theo's warning about caution about ID card matters (twill become clear). Read on! [The url link is playing tricks - when it opens, clicke on general discussion and look for fifth item down mentioning ebay seller OR go to: melodeon.net, then click forum on left, and in the search box put the posting id: msg32707 and that should bring up the first post...] http://forum.melodeon.net/index.php/topic,2847.0.html

Searched for the dots and abc and score but failed: but here's the toon - about two thirds down the page! But can I play it on my buttons?! http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/eltonjohn/561/indexoldies18.html

Check out here Marien and pmail me.... http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/?func=find-b&request=Giulio%20Regondi&find_code=WRD&adjacent=N