Wolf Molkentin

Try it with a simple one like "http://abload.de/img/buryfairzesve.jpg"

Didn't vote for the winner (nor for the runner up), but learned to liike that tune in the meantime. So here's my first rough take, just single line melody. My second version will include chords on the second run, whereas the third will have just the single line again (planned this for Boda Waltz already but didn't manage to record it as yet).

And what about a "Losers" forum? Autumn Leaves would have made up quite a challenge...

Reminds me a bit of a steam iron...

There's not only cranes for drivers but those Grus grus creatures as well; shame on me for another quick shot... WIe Friedrich Schiller schon schrieb: "Sieh da, sieh da, Timotheus, die Crane Duets des Ibykus!" Cheers, John The murderers hadn't apparently been aware of the value of these instruments (in which case they wouldn't have let them fly)... And Jim, thank you for the tutoring...

Well, at least it's interesting (and appealing in its own way) to hear the air played in that bouncy rhythm of a dance tune! Definitely adds something... And, spirited playing of Miss Gordon as for me...

Fine! I took it from my PDF copy of Playford, The Dancing Master.

Pete, since I'm busy today I provide you with a probably better copy of the tune to begin with: I'll come back to this later on. Best wishes - Wolf

Hello Voyager, did you create this format? Looks pretty useful in order to acquaint people to reading dots too!! (I'm only wondering for what reason the natural signs are accurring...)

So that's a pretty good beginning!

Counting you as a voter, it's three of us after all!

We could end up with a month where the TOTM is John Cage's 4'33'' - the full three-movement version of course. ...and will have to particularly carefully ensure that the chording/accompaniment won't drown the melody...

Thank you again for putting the pieces together - had already searched your soundcloud profil and listened to it repeatedly...

As long as we don't get rolls with six (or eight resp. twelve) edges this might well be mistaken...

What ever the outcome of this poll may be - Jim, I absolutely share your sentiments about Nat King Cole!

A link would be nice. I tried eBay's "advanced search" for the combination of "concertina" and "Holmwood", and it gave me results for (and only for) "concert in Hollywood". Then for the combination of "concertina" and "tenor" it gave me results for (and only for) "concertino" and "tenor". Sheesh! Jim, didn't the user "Johnnyconcertina" just refer to his advertisment in our Bye&Sell-Forum? I posted the link above... Best wishes - Wolf

I have been playing the piano since I was six years old - but never managed that. If I try I hear at least my words adopting the rhythm of the music (which is obviously still taking the lead role then)... Perhaps I should follow that suggestion from Geoff, might take me beyond that...

Holidays? What is that?? But seriously, it would in fact be nice to face a new challenge...!

Coming back to this again, the scales just fell from my eyes... There's not only cranes for drivers but those Grus grus creatures as well; shame on me for another quick shot...

At least it is here,,,

To play the "power chord" with stopped notes enables you to fall below the perfect fifth as well as to overstep it when using the fifth as a starting point for melody over the "first" drone or some ornamentation... And it's the same with any fifth on the EC!

Again, a pleasure to listen to! Particularly melodic, with the counter bass runs fitting in very nicely!

Yes Sarah, one might say it's a string instrument thing, but I believe it's about two issues then: Firstly, tone spacing and respective tuning (which you might have been referring to and in fact wouldn't simply apply to the concertina). Secondly, the playing, Open (or empty, according to the German name for this) means just the interval without interjacent thirds (or whatever tones). In a sense this is a spring thing too, because since the spacing of the violin a.s.f. strings is providing the interval sort of naturally the player can rely upon it when using double stops. And here is my point: Since the EC is capable of kind of a fiddle sound (as to the Treble, just in its range, too) and provides the fifth basically as part of the chord triangle (two notes in a row, with the exception of the B-F flattened fifth) this playing technique fits it too - at least IMO, always having loved that fiddle sound and feeling quite happy to adopt it (inclusive of the respective ornamentations) for my EC playing... If you don't have that fiddle sound in mind you might however try the open fifth thing (which can of course make up no more than a starting point) in order to avoid thirds - and furthermore possibly acquire a fast access to chording and harmony by that. Best wishes - Wolf

So we have one post telling you to file the tip to lower the pitch and the next post saying just the opposite! (Hint: the second post is correct) Oh, sh..., don't know why I had been confused in the meantime (see my earlier post) - I apologize for that!

I hope you don't mind me recommending the open fifth once more...