Kautilya

Brill and inspirational! Love the bodhran and some of the haunting sounds. Judging by the number of hits you are doing lots of good to the @loneley's@ out there so you are not lonely!

u may not have seen this (as above seemed to be was yr first post!) so go look at http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php...84&hl=canal

Yup -poor old BL, still valiantly struggling with legacy computers and squeezer friendly front-ends.... But could it be a nice long-term home for the ICA music archive... one wonders? Don't us know somebody at t'BL? All the content on sounds.bl.uk is available if you are accessing it from a registered Higher/Further Education site. The restriction to other users is because of copyright - not steam-powered computers! The available content includes all of - Traditional music in England, Circa 20,717 field recordings of traditional music including popular ballads, children's skipping songs, customs, music hall, soldiers' songs, folk tales and interviews. Yes, tks for that I was put off more by the layout, which threw me... Main page - the restricted (if your eyes are attracted to read it and mine are trained not to**) access message is first with search box underneath, and the general public access message is out to the right ("second option" for my brain scan). Might be better t'other way round......the masses first and elite second. Then: Do a search for concertina (I dont tick boxes as my brain says I have agreed to something and will get a loadof spam....!) Up they come, I choose Alexander's Ragtime and bingo, up comes the toon play box But I decide I dont want that, so let me search again and I think how helpful a box to the right and I automatically go to that 'new' search box on the right -- type in Tsar's Ragtime, press search and then get told u are not a student...................... thank goodness we only design websites for the day job.... That we are even giving tips to each other on how to use the thing shows it aint been thought through with illterate/WWW (webweakwally) punters like me in mind! Still, it must be doing wonders for my finger/brain/button layout patterns as i try to speed up my Rach II effort on my Anglo ** don't even ask about subsconscious blanking out of street and other ads... there's a whole marketing theory out there to prevent it...

Tks LDT -- Much much fun (and jealousy at not having been able to go!!) Just like the fun at the George Coaching Inn near London Bridge (first Monday of the month,,, except bank holidays, so today Monday the 7th from 20.00 on!! Entrée gratuite for the Rosbifs (not the drinks tho!). And Alan will have fixed his spring...though how he was mixing catnaps with dogs in heat... the mind boggles

Yup -poor old BL, still valiantly struggling with legacy computers and squeezer friendly front-ends.... But could it be a nice long-term home for the ICA music archive... one wonders? Don't us know somebody at t'BL?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/aug/2...leafcutter-john

ACTUALLY - better to start a fresh search at http://sounds.bl.uk/ or u get trapped into a deadend unless u are becoming a student again (to get access from an institution of higher education etc) so no sounds available to the common man and certainly not gentlemen :rolleyes: ....

try this one - I searched for concertina but ref says piano accordeon so trust someone there knows the difference! http://sounds.bl.uk/View.aspx?item=025M-C0...04XX-1200V0.xml or try yr own search which should work from same page.

Would still be v useful if our e-wizards can tell us how to post the pic and details of the item here, BEFORE they disappear.. that would mean many more eyes and memories on the qui vive for the future..... here's my effort but may not be the right way.. but only took about a minute. I copied the ebay page, pasted it into a word document, saved it and then attached the file thru upload box below right .. here goes

Super - may I suggest two pages open on same screen: one with Rostropivich playing (so one can hear and play along with his cello) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXnujMPt30Q and the other screen with Podzol's score open http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php...ost&id=4840 just the kind of thing we need for the massed concertinas at the future Proms - can u imagine bass concertinas resonating underneath - would be inspirational ! Being useless at working out which key I can play in on my box (as always) willl have to see if I can match some chords first and then some notes but that's the advantage of seeing if I am not too out of toon with old Mstislav). Whoops - Rostropovich not ...pivich! My dodgy keywork again...!

Super - may I suggest two pages open on same screen: one with Rostropivich playing (so one can hear and play along with his cello) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXnujMPt30Q and the other screen with Podzol's score open http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php...ost&id=4840 just the kind of thing we need for the massed concertinas at the future Proms - can u imagine bass concertinas resonating underneath - would be inspirational ! Being useless at working out which key I can play in on my box (as always) willl have to see if I can match some chords first and then some notes but that's the advantage of seeing if I am not too out of toon with old Mstislav).

http://www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk/tunebook/index.shtml

http://www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk/tunebook/index.shtml

No; I don't do music events. SLOW PRACTICE TUNES = USEFUL http://www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk/tunebook/index.shtml

AND OF COURSE FREE REED harmonicas and ....some bodhran percussion

Is it time to make a move for 2010 to have Concertinas at the Proms to follow Ukeleles?? www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/.../ukulele.shtml Concertina is not new to Albert hall and a massed concertina band could include simpletons playing only chords as well as the virtuosi/e playing the main toons.

So it is not likely to be worth $200? Hmmm, not likely. Maybe half that. BUT - if u have a special magnifying glass u can make out the message in invisible ink which says this was presented to Eric Honecker by the chief of the Stasi after it was used by George Blake when he was controller for the KGB of the Berlin network and he used it to send out musical signals out for encounters of the Third Man. So it automatically plays the Harry Lime tune. Here's the tune but it sounds like a mandolin is blocking out the Anglo tone! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__yo60V8Nzg With a provence like that could be worth thousands..........of pre-war Dmarks

Thanks to someone somewhere along the line about trying out what you might buy on ebay, I went to look at a couple of scandalli accordions as I was able to go past. Trying to learn the same basic toons on a keyboard to make it easier on the Anglo. Nice seller and honest enough to say they did not know one note from another although they did say they worked. Both had valve problems, some keys not even producing a note, a leakey note somewhere, and one was flat all over the place sounding like it needed a major retune, straps missing or poor.... So thanks for that advice.

It could be a hijacked paypal account too! Too true Theo - we have just had two payments charged against cr. crd (one for webhosting in US with a paypal reference and a contact phone number which turned out to be that of paypal; and t'other was for some item from a letterbox outfit in north london) ... both were fraudulent. Crd cancelled and new now arrived but worrying that it can happen. My thinking on the basis of the evidence is that it could be someone on the inside at pp as there is no way they could have hard the crd details from us. Further despite having a fully passworded pp account, PP are still allowing 'direct' payments, not through the pukka account with password) by crd using only crd no...... so the question is how did the bandit get the number ? Alas Paypal staff did not want to 'hear' the broader point about this direct payment loophole. They should have a trigger so that if someone gets hold of your crd number and try to pay direct, then the pukka security protected account should block that direct usage. This is another reason why one should always think seriously about using a pseudonym on open fora ... remember that earlier discussion......? Remember every email you send is open to view by someone who wants to see it ... only encryption can stop that and even then some regular ones can be hacked with a bit of effort. Paul - perhaps these paras might be something to copy into the Scam box at top of the buy and sell section.

Time for US Buttonstone cops to ride out? praps the duct tape has doubled or were there two bits before? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Paolo-Soprani-Accord...id=p3286.c0.m14 e're working to make eBay easier to use. [Paolo Soprani Accordion] Paolo Soprani Accordion Item condition: Used Time left: 6 days 12hours (07 Aug, 200911:04:47 BST) Bid history: 0 bids[Refresh] Starting bid: £200.00 Enter maximum bid: £ Place bidPlace bid (Enter £200.00 or more) You can also: Watch this item Now watching in My eBay Now watching in My eBay Postage: £39.00Other CourierSee more services See discounts | See all details Estimated delivery time varies for this postal service. Seller dispatches within 3 days Payments: PayPal, Postal Order or Banker's Draft | See details Pay with PayPal and you’re fully protected. Learn More Returns: No Returns Accepted

It was so good that I see there are already musical derivatives of your plinth peformance appearing and you have been turned into a conductor even!

Hi Kautilya Not so much repeating, as it's additional information. It starts at post #27. United shamed?? Never happen in my lifetime. http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php...ost&p=97392 Thanks Leo Right! They paid up now at least! rgds

DAMAGE AND SECURITY AIRPORT seems this has shamed United airlines onyoutube http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/2...ar-dave-carroll trust am not repeating this ref.

How dare you post a photo of me without my permission! I USED to be a werewolf, but I'm better NOW-OOO...... ANd, yes, Michael Wild - 'twas me with Al at Bradfield.The sessions in the Royal were great fun - nice to be the only (or nearly only) guitarist in a session for a change. The "Blue Moon" recording was one of 4 that Al and I did recently. You can hear the others at My website The recordings are The full version of The Gentianne Mazurka set Both tunes(GD Box) In The Toyshop (CG Box) Manor Royal March (CG Box) Blue Moon (GD Box) Mike tells me that The Gentianne Mazurka set is currently about 50th in the listening charts out of thousands of entries so that is encouraging. Al Possible FRENCH TUNE (with accordion et al) for Concertina lead at the George jam? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odNa0-CD1X8 K

So was it aKodak Brownie or a..........?