ghijze mitter hacken
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That is excellent news Al and thank you for your eforts here. I just know this tutor has something for me in it.
Ian
I agree and I'm looking forward to it.
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A trivia question for Friday...
A colleague recently asked me why , of all instruments, I chose the concertina and did it have any links to the sort of music I enjoyed listening to anyway. I can't really see the link when looking at my own taste (I am a Bob Dylan fanatic, but also like listening to Serge Gainsbourg, French female pop singers, Fairuz, Alex Campbell, Clancy Brothers, late 70s/early 80s hip hop, the Smiths, 'classical' renditions of Robbie Burns songs, the Sonics ... amongst many, many others)
but it got me wondering...
... what kind of music apart from that played on your concertina, do you folks listen to and enjoy? I wonder whether there are patterns or certain styles that feature heavily in the lives of concertina players?
Once I told a colleague poet of mine that I play the concertina and the organetto. He was not surprised because he never could have imagined me playing a guitar. My musical interests started with the blues and cajun music zydeco and tex mex and all kind of folk music from all over the world. Not only folk music as it is played but also the social context of it and the changes in the music after a change int hat particular context. Compare p e pre war and post war cajun music or fado or rembetica and there is still a lot more to discover.
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Hi Alan
A few months back I found this clown from France. I don't think he's playing it though.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=philip...amp;view=videos
Thanks
Leo
I also stumbled across these clips on YouTube a few weeks back - I found this clown very disturbing and unsettling for some reason - so much so that I went to other clips after just watching for a few seconds.
Steve
Some people fear clowns to death, it's called coulrophobia.
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I have failed to make sense of my anglo. The changing notes on the squeeze thing is still messing with my mind two years on. So, I'm having a go with a Jack baritone beginner's English instead. My theory is there is less to worry about because you only have to worry about the buttons rather than the note changing on the squeeze (so technical in my descriptions!!)
Is this wise, foolhardy or other - do you reckon?! :-)
Anna x
I play an EC for many years now and an organetto as well. The keyboard of an EC can not be described in piano terms because its alternating between the left and right hand. A G on the right hand side will be followed by an A on the left hand side. If you play from sheet music all notes between the lines are on the right hand side hand, all notes going through the lines are on the left hand side. To me it is the most logical lay out of all keyboards, but maybe a Wicki - Hayden lay out is even more logical. I hope to find out in a few months.
There are some good EC tutors free to download, have a go!
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Here is the ABC of this tune.
X:365
T:Passe Piedt
B:Oude en Nieuwe Hollantse Boeren Lieties en Contredansen - Vyfde Deel
M:3/8
K:Ddor
de|f2f2g2|a2ga_b2|a2ga_bg|agfede|f2f2g2|a2ga_b2|a2ga_bg|a4:|
|:D2|e2e2f2|g2f2e2|a2gfed|^c2A2d2|e2efge|f2d2a2|g2(fe)(d^c)|d4:|
|:D2|A4E2|F2D2A2|d2defg|ed^cBA2|d2A2E2|F2(ED)A2|d2defg|e4:|
|:e2|a2a2e2|f2efd2|g2ga_bg|a4A2-|A2d4|^c2a2e2|f2gfef|d^cdefg|
a2a2e2|f2efd2|g2ga_bg|a4A2-|A2d4|^c2a2e2|f2gfef|d4|]
edited to remove stupid grins.....
Here you can find all melodies as PDF or as ABC's
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Some Bastari type Hohner 30b concertinas are better than todays china made plastics Hohner concertinas.
But even compared to these old Hohners the Rochelle action wins.
I play a Hohner English for about 27 years and it is still in a good condition and the sound is okay.
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IIRC there was a thread some years ago about Wheatstonewhich worked on a system like this, including pictures. The reeds were in a a small tube with some sort of reversing valve mechanism for the arlflow.
Chris
Thanks Chris, no need to invent the wheel for a second time I suppose?
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This is not about anglo´s, but another thing (only for chromatic systems') I have been thinking of is that it should be possible to create a reed chamber with only one reed which will be triggered both on push and on pull. But it takes some extra valves and a more complex channel construction, and the reed is more ore less encapsulated, making it more difficult to take it out for tuning, and it will not reduce the weight of the instrument a lot (which is related to the idea to get rid of half of the reeds). It needs more wood (weight) for the extra tunnel construction. Nevertheless, it should be possible for a system where notes are equal on push and pull, sorry, I am off the anglo topic, just an additional idea that I found somewhere in my skull.
Wheatstone actually patented such a system in the 1840's. (Fourth claim on p.9, and in figure 13 of the 1844 patent-- see http://www.concertina.com/wheatstone/Wheat...041-of-1844.pdf ) I've been thinking and drawing and plotting how to use a variant to produce a single reeded, but bisonoric (same note from same reed on push and pull) bass. I even went so far as to buy a set of organ reeds to experiment with. Early Wheatstone basses seem to have used harmonium reeds, so my idea doesn't seem too far fetched. My designs need four valves per note. I'm not sure that the channel construction is significantly more complex than the usual reed pan+action board.
I have been thinking about the same matter, some reed organs were operated by push and/or draw wind, they were rather complex in their construction. Is it not possible to use idioglottic reeds as in the sheng? Concerning the keyboard lay out would a B or C Griff as a lay out for duet concertinas make sense? Because one plays a concertina just for the sound of it, not for the complexity of the system!
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The problem with Fahey tunes and the concertina is that Fahey played his intervals very non equal tempered, the concertina's f naturals etc just don't quite convey his music. Even the Keane sisters lean away from his own sound.
Norwegian music has quite a bit of these "quarter tones" (here we call them crooked). I know at least one good box player here, who has a retuned box to catch these.
I know Mats Eden has a melodeon tuned in quarter tone intervals, but he is from Norway and there is Lillebror Vasaassen who uses a one row tuned in partials of a given scale.
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hi !!
here there's some takes of today :
the three first tune of the sonata 2 in B minor from the sonata and partita for solo violin by mister JS Bach playing with my lachenal .
I got lot of joy to play them, I hope you'll have to listen to.....
the other tunes of this sonata should follow the next days......
Very nice playing!
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In Willie Green's Zydeco Band (Arhoolie Records: Zydeco - Volume One: The Early Years 1961 ) Green plays an anglo concertina.
Yankee Polka
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There's a tune called The New York Yankees Polka available as sheet music for the chemnitzer http://www.concertinamusic.com