Southdowns Jig

[Alan Day]

Heard this the other night at a session and learnt it from Lester Bailey's site.

Lovely little tune recently Melodeon Tune of the Month

STE-043.mp3

Al

Edited December 17, 2014 by Alan Day

[Lester Bailey]

http://lesters-tune-a-day.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/tune-394-south-downs-jig.html complete with the ABCs

 

ps It's melodEon not melodion

[Alan Day]

I am already doing a hundred lines for Irene for my spelling mistakes Lester.

Not another 100 I hope.

being that I have two melodeons I should know better.

Al

[cplayer]

Hello Alan

The tune was from the late Jim Harding when he was with Southdowns Morris,One of a few tunes that he composed and are still played down in Sussex.

Bryan Hawes

[JimLucas]

http://lesters-tune-a-day.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/tune-394-south-downs-jig.html complete with the ABCs

 

ps It's melodEon not melodion

 

So the -ion is negative, but the -eon is positive?

 

But if Wheatstone had made a deluxe model, would it have been a melodæon?

[hjcjones]

I first heard this tune years ago played by Roger Watson, and later by Dave Prebble, but I finally managed to get it down from John Percy, who sent me this recording of Jim Harding playing it:

 

https://soundcloud.com/howardj

 

Also my own efforts, on melodeon and anglo, recorded for the melodeon.net TOM.

 

It's a tune which I think greatly benefits from being played with a bit of subtlety, which Alan of course achieves.

[Sandy2v]

A first concertina tune for me played on cg 30 button Anglo from Chris Algar. I'm a melodeon player really so this was a lovely new experience finding out that the concertina has so many options for arrangement etc. Very excited to be learning this instrument now if I can find the time to do so. Bit of hesitation and lack of left hand dexterity but a good reminder about learning an instrument. I liked this tune as a starter because it fitted so well. Apologies if not quite as written but done on memory. Looking forward to listening to those on here now

http://youtu.be/9guSrFVJIJs

Cheers

Sandy

[Wolf Molkentin]

Lovely Anglo harmonies and bounce, Sandy - enjoyed!

 

Best wishes - Wolf