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Thanks Mike… yes, two months is absolutely nothing at all and I'm not impatient, I'm really enjoying learning and discovering something new each day… as you say, it's a tricky instrument but very rewarding. Thanks very much for the run-down on the position of the duplicate notes...

 

Cheers, John

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Keep at it long enough and with a bit of luck these sort of options eventually become instinctive and your fingers take over.

 

Thanks Rod… that'll be the day to break out the champagne…! I just wasn't sure if finding easier, alternative notes and ways around tricky passages was the accepted way. I feel now as if I have been given the green light to go ahead and do my own thing… within reason, of course!

 

Cheers, John

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What I meant to say Gary… in Weeping, Sad & Lonely in bar 9, I have to break up that beautiful, long 1 drone by playing 10 on the push, and then continue the drone for the 3-1-9-2 run on the pull. It's a shame to have to do this as that long, deep drone is wonderful… at least when you play it! I'll have to save that long note for the day I upgrade to an extra bellows-fold or two...

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John, no harm done by breaking the drone momentarily - I think it sounds perfectly fine either way!

 

For some reason my 20-button Lachenal has the left hand #6 button as "B" push and "C" pull - I hope yours is the more normal "B/A" configuration. I was wondering why some of those pulled chords sounded odd...

 

Gary

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"For some reason my 20-button Lachenal has the left hand #6 button as "B" push and "C" pull"


Mine too Gary… :o ! I hadn't noticed that before as I haven't had to dig down that deep on the G row yet… any ideas why our Lachenals should be set up B/C? All of the fingering charts that I've seen show the B/A configuration…

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Mine is B push/C pull as well, so it isn't all that rare.

A pull may be the most common, but another option I've seen in that position would be a D. Personally, the D seems the least useful of the three, because that D pull already exists in the C row and is easy to get to. Sometimes that lowest button on the G row is G push/D pull, which seems completely redundant to me, but it makes the G row completely the same interval configuration as the C row, which could be convenient for someone who strictly plays along the rows.

 

I do miss the low A on some melodies, but having that lower C on the pull is great to anchor the higher C pull in the left hand G row when playing octaves, or when played beneath the A and E pull for an A minor chord, or to help out a C major harmony phrase when the melody (or bellows balance) requires a pull note.

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"Mine is B push/C pull as well, so it isn't all that rare."

 

Thanks Ted… well, that makes at least three of us, I wonder how many others have the B/C set-up? Actually, the B/A set-up means that there are 5 As on the pull, including the 2 right hand ones, so maybe that extra C instead of an A isn't such a bad thing… reducing the As to 4 and increasing the Cs to 3 on the pull...

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