Anyone Going To The North-east Squeeze-in?

[Perry Werner]

Much Better!!!!!!!

Remember I ( a former pro photographer) told everyone to look at only one camera.

If more than one person is shooting the eyes are going to go in all directions and almost invariably these situations produce very mixed results, usually none that are that wonderful.

I'll be glad to run a "photographng a big group of concertinists" workshop next year if it's requested!

 

 

Perry

 

PS: Howie you're still mostly hidden.

Next time stand in front!

[Richard Morse]

And here's the shot from my camera taken from a different angle - just after the crack about accordions.

[JimLucas]

Everyone say "Accordion"

Time, I think, for a photo the back side of the old Concertina & Squeezebox T-shirt.

[JimLucas]

Time, I think, for a photo the back side of the old Concertina & Squeezebox T-shirt.

Which should not be confused with the back of the even earlier Concertina Magazine T-shirt.

[Alan Day]

Jim,is this the fish quiz again?

Al

[Jay Lamsa]

Just wanted to add my 2 cents -

 

Camping in the pouring rain wasn't too much fun. The thunderstorm at 3 am that drove from the tent to attempt to sleep in my car. I don't think I'll camp in a small tent next year. But I have to say, the rest of the SI made up for the discomfort.

 

There was a lot of informal groups forming and dissolving, a Brownian motion of people and concertinas that was very enjoyable and led to a lot of good music.

 

The Saturday night concert was great! Many excellent performances, too many to list. Many stood out, and I have to say lildogturpy's song from Manchester got a lot of laughs. I went on stage with a musical instrument for the first time ever - actually I ended up in three ensembles (two with concertina and one with accordion). It is a really good venue for getting on stage for the first time - very supportive crowd.

 

And it was good to meet fellow C.netters!

Jay

[JimLucas]

Jim,is this the fish quiz again?

No, but that just gave me an idea: Somebody (preferably not me) could provide a list of names (or captions?), and we could compete in providing pictures to match.

[JimLucas]

Now to get my limericks written for the contest ...

Well, I wasn't there, and it's too late for the contest, but I just came up with the following:

 

There once was a squeezer named Rich,

Who played "like a son of a bitch".

... His hound didn't growl,

... But joined in with a howl,

Till you couldn't tell which dog was which.

 

(Rich M. - nothing personal in the name. It just rhymes.)

(Everybody else, I hope the language in the second line doesn't offend. I had trouble rhyming "really hot and flashy". )

[David Barnert]

I was asked to judge the Limericks this year, and I think yours would have come in 2nd if you had submitted it. I had to scratch mine. I'll submit it again next year.

[JimLucas]

I was asked to judge the Limericks this year, and I think yours would have come in 2nd if you had submitted it.

I don't know whether to be pleased, or to wonder at the poor quality of the entries you judged.

 

........ Thanks, David.

[Richard Morse]

Jim certainly has a knack for wit.... Last year to assuage his pining for not being able to come to the NESI he sent along a handful of very fine limericks (as well as a couple of haiku). Would you like to share a few of them here, Jim? I've got them safely archived in case you've misplaced them - if you'ld acquiesce for me to post a few?

 

And speaking of limericks, I think my all-time favorite limerick was posted a while back on the squeezebox NG:

 

Hemiola by David Goldstein (posted by David Barnert)

 

If playing's your joy and delight

But triple time gets you uptight

.....I'd suggest on the whole, a

.....Discreet hemiola

Will make the rhythm come out right.

[JimLucas]

...if you'ld acquiesce for me to post a few?

Be my guest. In fact, please do. I have some practicing to do. Not only am I playing the street for the annual Culture Night tonight in Elsinore, but I just got a call from a fellow at the local brewery asking me to do a special promotional at a restaurant on Tuesday. Gotta brush up those drinking songs!

[Richard Morse]

So here are a few choice limericks from Jim!

 

Write a Limerick about concertinas?

I'm quite sure that he couldn't mean us.

.....Our artistic expression's

..... Strictly fast tunes in sessions.

Why, we haven't a good rhyme between us.

 

I first tried to play the squeezebox

While in quarantine with chicken pox.

.....The disease is now ended,

.....But my squeezing offended;

Now my arms are held rigid in stocks.

 

Forty-eight, fifty-six, sixty-four;

Some have fewer, and some even more.

....Diatonic, chromatic,

.....Dynamic or static,

Concertinas have buttons galore.

 

The Chidleys, the Crabbs, and George Case,

Each made instruments at their own pace.

.....And their shops were quite quiet

.....Compared to the riot

At which Lachenal's mass production did race.

 

Though the bellows is punctured and patched,

And the wood of the ends chipped and scratched,

.....You know I much preefer

.....My trusty old squeezer,

To a fiddle with no strings attached.

 

The weather was more than just damp

As from cabins to lodge we did tramp.

.....But strictly between us

.....It was the concertinas

That made the melodeons decamp.

 

John Cage was a squeezer most bold,

And his instrument, so I am told,

.....Was built by a Shaker

.....Turned squeezebox maker,

With one button and one bellows fold.

 

And can a limerick have more than one stanza?

 

A sweet English player named Jean

Met a strong anglo player named Dean.

.....It was love at first sound,

.....They were soon playing a round...

A canon. You know what I mean.

 

She said to him, "Do you suppose

That we could combine both of those?

.....I really don't mean a

.....Duet concertina,

But marriage is what I propose."

 

Once he laid his strong in-and-out beat

Over her lines smooth and sweet,

.....She'd expand and contract;

.....Now their musical act

Is with three new small squeezers replete.

[David Barnert]

Rich (or was it Jim?) asked

And can a limerick have more than one stanza?

Of course. There are several classics that go on for pages in Gerson Legman's definitive tome, "The Limerick."

 

So here are some of the limericks I've submitted over the years:

 

For my squeezebox, I paid quite a fee,

But it got me to thinking:"Let's see...

The cost is quite nice

If you think what the price

Would have been if the reeds weren't free!"

 

A melodeon player named Jack

Once played with his box on his back.

He put one arm through here

And the other 'round there.

A talent I fear that I lack.

 

My squeezebox is getting too old.

No air will the bellows hold.

The valves all leak,

The springs all squeak.

But it's worth lots of money, I'm told.

 

Chemnitzer. Squeezebox. Bandoneon.

Button Box. Concertina. Melodeon.

This is the season

To go to the Squeeze-In

Where everyone plays the Accordion.

 

Jack gave his young niece a big squeeze.

And she said to him, "Uncle Jack, PLEASE!

A good hug is nice,

But I won't tell you twice.

Keep your fingers offa my keys!"

[JimLucas]

This "Topic" has gotten rather long and divergent.

Maybe the poetry should be separated out its own Topic?

...... Paul, Ken, what do you think?

[Ken_Coles]

Now Jim, you did tell our friends to post your Limericks!

 

Moving one or two posts isn't hard, but reorganizing whole threads is time I should spend on the enormous "in" box here at Concertina Central (which I might actually get to today). I guess public conversations tend to be a little chaotic, especially when they involve lots of intelligent people like we have here.

[David Barnert]

This "Topic" has gotten rather long and divergent.

Maybe the poetry should be separated out its own Topic?

...... Paul, Ken, what do you think?

I agree with Ken. Surely the dated nature of the title of this thread indicates that it has now become a "throwaway" thread. Read at your own risk.

 

After all, is anyone Going To The North-east Squeeze-in?

 

Edited for typo.

Edited September 25, 2004 by David Barnert

[Tina]

Bear with me but I could not resist ... read at your own risk !

 

A rhymer in Herzegowina

was wondering if a hyena

was striped, or spotty

or just pretty dotty

when combined with her concertina