Concertinas in cartoons

[Snorre]

Translation:

Are you calling me a cheat?!?

 

No, no! Easy, Hank!

[Ransom]

There's something drawn like a concertina in "The Aristocats". Unfortunately, the sound is an accordion.

[michael sam wild]

Translation:

Are you calling me a cheat?!?

 

No, no! Easy, Hank!

 

 

Maybe it loses in the translation but I think he's threatening to play it? A bit like 'here's your harp welcome to heaven, here's your accodion welcome to hell'

[Mikefule]

Or the two kids robbing a shop: "We have an accordeon and we know how to use it."

[Dirge]

There's something drawn like a concertina in "The Aristocats". Unfortunately, the sound is an accordion.

 

That seems to be par for the course. Presumably the film-makers like the look of the things but can't find anyone to play the music they actually want on a concertina, and an accordion is 'close enough'. It probably is too, for the vast majority.

[Ransom]

That seems to be par for the course. Presumably the film-makers like the look of the things but can't find anyone to play the music they actually want on a concertina, and an accordion is 'close enough'. It probably is too, for the vast majority.

 

Heh. I figured it something more like they want some accordion music, but the animators don't want to draw a melodeon, and they figure nobody will really know the difference anyway.

 

Whatever the exact line of reasoning, the approximate form factor of a concertina has become a visual symbol for any kind of squeezebox.

 

Speaking of Disney movies with anonymous concertina-shaped musical instruments in them, there's a pirate singing a song in Peter Pan. Captain hook shoots him, and Smee upbraids him for "shooting a man in the middle of his cadenza". I don't have the resources to check right now, but it seems like the fellow was accompanying himself on some sort of instrument, and I wonder if it wasn't another "concertina".

[Leo]

Speaking of Disney movies with anonymous concertina-shaped musical instruments in them, there's a pirate singing a song in Peter Pan. Captain hook shoots him, and Smee upbraids him for "shooting a man in the middle of his cadenza". I don't have the resources to check right now, but it seems like the fellow was accompanying himself on some sort of instrument, and I wonder if it wasn't another "concertina".

 

Thanks

Leo

[Boney]

I posted this in the Concertinas in the Movies thread:

 

(The Simpsons, Season 20, episode 13).

[Anglo-Irishman]

http://www.youtube.c...XUBvPR9E&fmt=18

 

Thanks

Leo

 

Leo,

According to this, pirates apparently did play the concertina - but not for long!

 

I must say, as musical pirates go, I prefer Gilbert and Sullivan. Speaking of whom: Sullivan didn't score for a concertina in "The Pirates of Penzance", did he? He composed it in 1879, and there would have been no problem finding a competent professional concetinist to play the part in those days, so it wasn't because of "staffing problems".

 

I suppose it just never occurred to Sullivan to put a concertina in the hands of a pirate because it was then a thoroughly modern instrument closely associated with the drawing-room and the music-hall stage, and pirates were already a thing of the romantic past. The anachronism would have been too obvious.

 

For the American cartoonist of the late 20th century, however, the historical perspective foreshortened the gap betweeen the pirate era (around 1700) and the clipper era (Sullivan's and the concertina's time), making concertina-playing pirates credible (at least for some people).

 

Cheers,

John

[Boney]

This originally had a piano, but I modified it:

 

[KRLA]

From Peter Pan: four fingers, but three folds. Happy chappy.

[Ransom]

A very square 'tina played by a Pirate Book in Pagemaster.

 

 

Starts at about 5:40 in this video.

 

 

All that salt water must be what makes the tuning so wet.

[Boney]

Futurama, Season 1: A Flight to Remember:

 

[Randy Stein]

Cover to a Japanese Cartoon Magazine

[Michael Ducky Raley]

not quitee a cartoon, a GIF animation that I created

 

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/100/l_85009eeaa3594a43a18da463f1596d57.gif

[Eddy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KR8Y6P_quM

 

the sound perhaps is an accordion...

[Peter Laban]

Saw a concertina pop up in another edition of the Simpsons last week. The player however was wearing wearing a stripy French jumper and a beret and the music was distinctly accordion.