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Chris, I miss the slip jig. Maybe it's Liverpool Everton Manchester, Liverpool Everton Manchester, etc. I rather like the chemistry one... Paradiethylaminobenzaldehyde, wash it all down with a dose of insecticide .... Sung to the Irish Washerwoman (also a test of sobriety or lack of it :-) Chris

There are quite a few little mnemonics that go around ... everyone has there own favourites... In this part of the world (NW UK) you'll find for a (double) jig, chant: Liverpool Everton Liverpool Everton Liverpool Everton etc If you can sing the words "Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace" to it it's a reel "See you later Aligator" for a hornpipe "Humpty Dumpty sat on a Wall" a slide Chris.

Hmm, pity you're on t'other side of the pond. I've just sold one of my spinning wheels (DH operates a limit on spinning wheel numbers in the house so if one comes in, one has to go out!) .. and I'm about to start looking for a home for a wheel that a friend wants to sell. .. and so as not to go off topic :-) I suspect that same might apply to concertinas, but so far there are only 2 in the house and they a lot smaller then spinning wheels! Chris

Le reel des soldats!

If you can get along to Chorley (Lancs) on the second saturday of the month, I can recommend getting in touch with Jubilee concertinas - who run slow sessions and workshops and have some instruments to try and hire. I think there was a post about them somewhere on this site ..... aahhh yes , have a look under "calendar events" where it says..... "Workshop for players of all Concertina types and abilities. We are a friendly group who all love the Concertina. We run between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. st Eaves Green Community Centre, Chorley, Lancs. For more details contact Angie Bladen on 01257 263678." They also run a slow and steady band session on the first saturday of the month for any instrument (including concertinas) Chris J.

What a disaster - I've immediately cased up my Lachenal and stuck it on a high shelf - one of my cats really hates the noise and I hope this doesn't give it ideas! How about opening it up and filling it with baking soda - mind you that's also a bit corrosive if damp? Time maybe the only solution - possibly several years. Chris

Sounds like Sweeneys on Chieftains 2 (B part is marginally different ) I've no idea on the second one though ..

It works on a SUN running unix with Firefox browser ... so it rpobably will run on anything! Chris

I never knew Whetastone made beasts like this !!! e-bay listing Chris J.

Concertina.net's music page HERE I really like the "Black Boxes" CD - wide mixture of folk styles - all EC - it seems to turn up on E-bay regularly. Chris J

Marg - a very lovely box - a friend has an Edeophone and I'm extrememly envious - it has a gorgeous tone. Chris Algar has one listed at the moment. here on ebay You could look at the price that reaches, factor out the cost of a retune on your box (several hundred quid if it needs bringing to concert pitch and possibly another lump of money for refurbishing - more if the bellows need work - though the whole thing looks in good condition). Then add an unknown amount on the plus side for having the history with it. .... and I'm sure someone here would be interested in the serial number and details of the receipt which could help fill in the history of Lachenals

My DH's very late model Lachenal English has "plastic" buttons - red, white and black (Chris Algar looked at the serial number and reckoned it must've squeezed out of the doors as they were closing for the last time.) They are certainly more a plastic than a bakelite. (and flat topped) Chris J

Odd! Are the Sibelius files from a commercial site (I thought from the original query, they'd been written on someones computer at home.) Commercial ones may want you to pay for the music. I wonder if there's something that can be set when creating the original Sibelius files. I have a friend at work with Sibelius (rather old version), maybe I can get him to create some files to see if I can print them. (I use Noteworthy Composer - NWC - to write out scores - much cheaper :-) and there's a ABC2NWC program which is handy). Chris

Sounds good to me ... (as a physicist .. and I have the papers to say so!) I was going to start up a "shouting into a high wind" thread branch, but I'm not up to the research involved at the mo! Chris J (phys/astro)

Hi Chris, I read the article in Living Tradition just few days ago - looks like they've done you proud there. All the best with future sessions. Chris J

I was heading into London yesterday by van to pick up fellow astronomers and all our exhibition stuff from the centre. Fortunately, before I got to the M25, the signs on the Motorway started displaying.. "London closed - Turn on your radio" I was able to divert and stopover with relatives (All astronomers and relatives are OK - though they've had to do a lot of walking) I finally went in and we got ourselves loaded up and out, and now I'm just back up north. London seems to be coping very well. Traffic was moving, taxi drivers (Most) were reasonably civil to a frequently lost van. We passed whole convoys of police minbuses heading south as we went nort. They must be pulling a lot back from the G8 at Gleneagles Thanks for everyones kind thoughts Chris J

LOL - I like all the alternatives! A bit of Googling seems to go with the basket of fish (boring) "CREEL OF PERCHES, THE. AKA and see “Crib of Perches.” (An Chruid Péirsí) Irish, Reel. Ireland, County Sligo. D Major. Standard. AABB. A creel is a basket fisherman use to store their catch while fishing, and perch, of course, are the catch. Source for notated version: whistle player Jimmy McGettrick (b. 1909, Aughris, Rathmullen, Ballymote, Co. Sligo) [Flaherty]. Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; pg. 137." Chris (spindizzy)

Alan, Crib reminded me of a sort of Irish basket that I make generally called a Scib - for potatoes (the sort I make is flat and also called a ciseog, there are also boat shaped frame potato baskets called sciathog) I went back to my Irish basketry book, and found a small creel called a crubog - maybe that's what the crib is. ps there are lots of accents on the vowels which I haven't put in. Chris J

I have a (mostly) working box key - its a very simple one - I'll try and get a picture taken. Perhaps I could make a soap impression and go into business making keys! Are all the locks the same? Chris J.

BE CAREFUL HERE - if you try to download it again, SS may delete the original under a "2 strikes and you're out!" The MD forums recommend doing either a headphone/lineout -> computer as you've been doing already, or a good way to get a better quality transfer is to PLAY the recording with sonic stage, meanwhile turn on whatever recording software you have on the computer and point it at the right sound source (on mine I change in from Line In to SUM). This should bypass a few stages of conversion and amplifiers and also reduce the risk of SS trashing a vital one off recording. Chris

Maybe 3.1 is more stable, but I've heard hairy things about Sonic Stage trashing minidiscs during edit operations. Anyway, it wouldn't help, because I just leave the recorder running during a session (i.e. one huge track), then listen to it later and record the tunes I want onto the PC as they go past, ready for burning to CD. As I only use it as a recorder for live music, it makes sense for me. Chris <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Anything has to be better than the jog lever! It looks like 2.1 was pretty buggy, and especially good at trashing LONG tracks - ie the sort you get from running the recorder for a session (Yes that's what I do too). It looks like 2.1 fixed that and I gather 3.x is OK. However you control it though - the MD is handy for getting hours of reasonably good quality sound recording without too much hassle. It's made a load of difference to my playing in the local session - there's a subset of regular tunes that I can now play along with quite respectably. Chris

Hmm.. from my days in a very sectarian part of Glasgow, I'd always thought the footedness was to do with footbal rather than turf. The standard reply to this depends on whether you're a catholic pagan or a protestant pagan. (Apologies for rehashing a VERY old joke!) Chris J

Dave I've been using a minidisc recorder and sonic stage for making session recordings (to learn the tunes) and as far as I know, there's no easy way round the "one upload only" ... and no other software around for linking to the minidisc recorder. However, once you have a WAV you can burn any number of CDs using any software you like (I usually use the stuff that came with the CD recorder.) I usually archive the stuff I want to keep onto CD and delete the original. (I can always record from CD player back to MD if I want extra MD copies) There is some alternative software for making WAVS from the files in sonic stage (Marc's HiMD renderer works well). There is a Minidisc forum (run on the same software as this forum) at MD Forum They get very geeky though! Chris J.

There were a shed load of concertinas - half a room of Edeophones, 3-somes of Wheatstone tenor/trebles, and maybe even a few anglos at Four Fools Festival (West of Manchester UK) this weekend. Was any one there ? - I may remember the concertina if not the owner They even had a event called SqueezerGeezers Chris J.