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Apologies if this is noted here already, but I didn't notice that it was...

 

Was poking around after being away for a week and found on the Button Box menu a new entry I don't recall seeing a couple of weeks ago: the Geordie English concertina. This is a model I've heard for awhile that they were planning - first to use new casework 7 inches across the flats. I don't speak for BB (perhaps they will chime in) but this opens the possibility to create other new models of this size. They list tenor and baritone models, both 45-key with accordion reeds. Read all about it here.

 

Every new model is a great thing, more choices for all of us. Congratulations on the new arrival.

 

Ken

Posted (edited)

Having had an Albion baritone and seeing the prototype of this at Button Box, I need to think up a customer in western MA to pay a visit to. I wonder if the bottom end of the Baritione is lower than G -2?

Edited by saguaro_squeezer
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Wondering if the new 'Geordie' concertina will have a North East England accent? :unsure: And only play Northumbrian tunes! :rolleyes:

I haven't observed my Albion to be perfidious in the least.

 

But is that because it isn't, or because it's too tricksy to get caught?

Posted (edited)

Wondering if the new 'Geordie' concertina will have a North East England accent? :unsure: And only play Northumbrian tunes! :rolleyes:

 

Chris

 

Whyaye marra biggrin.gif Broonsalroond

Edited by anlej
Posted

Wondering if the new 'Geordie' concertina will have a North East England accent? :unsure: And only play Northumbrian tunes! :rolleyes:

 

Chris

 

Whyaye marra biggrin.gif Broonsalroond

 

........ or in translation.....

 

You are quite correct in your assumption my good friend biggrin.gif Landlord, kindly provide my friends and I with pints of your best Brown Ale

laugh.gif

Posted (edited)

Well you beat me to the translation...

And quite accurate it is too ;)

As a translator myself I know how difficult it can be to convey the exact meaning of the original.

 

BTW are you buying?

Edited by SteveS
Posted

Well you beat me to the translation...

And quite accurate it is too ;)

As a translator myself I know how difficult it can be to convey the exact meaning of the original.

 

BTW are you buying?

 

Nay hinny, A've a Dipper biggrin.gif

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Wondering if there is a tune called Newcastle Brown? :unsure: If there is, I'll drink to that! :D

 

Chris

 

I have not found Newcastle Brown, so we might have to settle for Newcastle:

 

X: 14571

T:Newcastle

M:4/4

L:1/8

Q:200

B:The Round Band Book of Playford

K:G

A | "G"B2d2 "D7"G2A2 | "G"G3A G2D2 | "G"B2d2 G2d2 | "C"e2 g4 fe | \

"G"d2B2 A2G2 | "C"E2 e4 dc | "G"d2B2 "D7"A3G | "G"G6 :|

|:\ef | "G"gfed g3B | "Am"A2 g4 A2 | "Em"G3A "Bm"B2F2 | "Em"E2 e4 f2| \

"G"gfed g3B | "Am"A2A2 c3d | "C"e2B2 "D7"A3G | "G"G6 :|

 

 

regards

 

John

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Wondering if there is a tune called Newcastle Brown? :unsure: If there is, I'll drink to that! :D

 

Chris

 

I have not found Newcastle Brown, so we might have to settle for Newcastle:

 

X: 14571

T:Newcastle

M:4/4

L:1/8

Q:200

B:The Round Band Book of Playford

K:G

A | "G"B2d2 "D7"G2A2 | "G"G3A G2D2 | "G"B2d2 G2d2 | "C"e2 g4 fe | \

"G"d2B2 A2G2 | "C"E2 e4 dc | "G"d2B2 "D7"A3G | "G"G6 :|

|:\ef | "G"gfed g3B | "Am"A2 g4 A2 | "Em"G3A "Bm"B2F2 | "Em"E2 e4 f2| \

"G"gfed g3B | "Am"A2A2 c3d | "C"e2B2 "D7"A3G | "G"G6 :|

 

 

regards

 

John

 

 

Thank you for that, John. And a very pretty tune it is, too, if I may say so. However, I have since come across a tune called Newcastle Beer, which is nearer still! Here is the ABC:

 

X: 1

T:Newcastle Beer

M:6/8

L:1/8

K:C

G|ccC EFG|Adc(BA)B|ccCEFG|AcBc2G|ccCEFG|AdcBAB|ccCEFG|AdBC2||c|edc (ed)c|

edc(ed)c|dBcdBc|dfed2d|ccCEFG|AdcBAB|ccCEFG|AdBc2||

 

 

Cheers!

Chris

Edited by Chris Drinkwater
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BTW are you buying?

 

Nay hinny, A've a Dipper biggrin.gif

 

....... but if I ever win the lottery I've promised myself a concertina from every good maker there is ..... and a couple more Dippers biggrin.gif

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....... but if I ever win the lottery I've promised myself a concertina from every good maker there is ..... and a couple more Dippers biggrin.gif

Big Dipper
and
Little Dipper
?

Posted

 

Big Dipper
and
Little Dipper
?

 

At least one Big Fruity sounding Bass certainly biggrin.gif

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