Don Taylor

I get numbness in my hands when playing the concertina and when riding my bike. This is alleviated by avoiding craning or bending my neck as much as possible. This meant learning not to look at the buttons when playing the concertina and raising the handlebars on my bike as high as possible. I use a handlebar stem extension to further elevate the handlebars.

Charlie Chaplin was a much more controversial figure in Britain and was considered to be a draft dodger by the UK (gutter) press during WWI.

I regularly (morning and evening) do some simple neck stretch exercises that help to relieve neck ache and numbness in my hand. They are called the 'McKenzie' exercises after the New Zealand physiotherapist that developed them many years ago. There is a book by Robin McKenzie called 'Treat Your Own Neck' which describes the exercises and explains the theory behind them. There are also many web-sites and YouTube videos that cover these exercises. If you try these exercises then be patient waiting for results. It takes a few days before things start to improve, and, as always with physiotherapy exercises, if it hurts then stop doing it. Added later: If you wear glasses then are you craning your neck forward to read a computer screen or a music score? If so, then talk to your optometrist about getting some glasses that focus at the right distance for you. I have bifocal glasses but I use a pair of 'computer' glasses to read a computer screen without craning my neck.

I agree with Sean but, as a buyer, I have had the inverse experience a couple of times. Something for sale a decent distance away is advertised at a certain price so I phone the seller and agree to see the item. When I get there, the seller ups his price figuring that since I spent a day driving to see his stuff then he can get me to pay more than the original asking price! I just turn around and leave. At least Sean did not to have drive 6 hours for a buyer to low-ball him.

You should get Wim Wakker's duet tutor with your Elise and Roger has already given you a link to Brian Hayden's tutor. AFAIK, that is all there is for tutors for the Hayden layout.

Very nice! Any chance that you could provide a MusicXML file?

Will the Circle be Unbroken.

See https://thesession.org/discussions/49075 for some suggestions/opinions.

There are lot of USB-A to USB-C adapters available, just make sure that you pick the right genders.

You can get an external drive that simply plugs into a USB port, I have one and have found it handy occasionally. They are quite cheap on Amazon.

Thank you very much for doing this this as I am a long time Stan Rogers fan. Background. The Dreadnoughts are a Canadian band founded in their love of the songs of Stan Rogers. Stan started out singing mostly traditional maritime songs but then moved on to writing and performing songs about other regions of Canada. Stan had plans for writing songs about all the varied regions of Canada but his career was cut short when he died in a fire aboard an aircraft in 1983. He was ony 33 years old. Here is the Dreadnoughts version of the song: https://youtu.be/cw9O2xdAmGc?si=PSQlfC-sJhZCrKxG

This is a play by ear tutor primarily and David added the transcription later. What do you plan to do about the audio recordings of the tutor? I have been providing it as a link in my sig (see below) but I am not going to live forever(!) so that is not a permanent solution. The ICA have recently added the audio recordings to their web-site: https://concertina.org/alan-days-anglo-concertina-tutor/ This appears to be available to non-members so this might be a possibility for you.

I think that Wolf used the term "double stop" a few years ago, he was referring to playing his EC at the time, and it stuck with me as a reasonable description of the style.

Isle of Beauty as played by the Band of the Irish Guards (first tune): Somebody in the comments said that they thought it was played too fast! Looking at the score I see mostly 3rds and 6ths with a 4th near the end. I would have called this style of playing 'double stopping' but maybe I have got the wrong idea about the meaning of double stopping?