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I think you mean Pam Berardino -- and I am just lucky that I found that out! I could vaguely remember that avatar, but it took a while to drum up the info.

 

See: http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php...=Profile&MID=38

 

...Maybe that's it.

 

And, since I'm here and we're talking Therapy, it's time for a laugh:

 

Did you hear about the guy in Paris who almost got away with stealing

> several paintings from the Louvre? After planning the crime, getting

> in and out past security, he was captured only two blocks away when

> his van ran out of gas.

>

> When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an

> obvious error, he replied: "Monsieur, I had no Monet to buy Degas to

> make the Van Gogh."

>

> And you thought I lacked De Gaulle to tell a story like that.

 

(I swiped that from a post in a crochet forum :) )

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If I can put my two penn'orth in, supporting allison's remarks. I had a rough time with relationships a few months ago, culminating with me living alone for the first time in my (long) life. I found quietly playing my concertina, a calming influence and it greatly helped me to adjust to my new situation.

 

As Mark said, you can really lose yourself in the moment and let the daily troubles look after themselves.

 

Derek

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As I have mentioned before. I actually took up the concertina as a self-imposed therapy after the death of my first wife. It certainly kept me occupied when I could have been heading for depression.

 

On the subject of decorating instuments, I have put a "Book of Kells" type ink drawing on my bodhran as I thought it appropriate to the instrument's origin and history. What is appropriate for a concertina?

 

Robin Madge

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I have thought long and hard about this posting and as so many of you have put your cards on the table I will add my experiences which to this day are still too painful to go into detail,but it may assist somebody out there.

At the time I purchased my concertina my eldest boy then aged five was suffering from Cystic Fibrosis an inherited disease which effects the lungs.Sadly he got progressivly worse and died at the age of eight.The stress of this type of situation is unbelievable, at the same time I was doing the only thing I could do, charity work and also councilling parents of children with the same disease.This I had to stop a short time after Mark died ,as the a number of the lovely children that I was visiting died shortly after Mark. I moved on with the help of friends allowing me to talk over the situation and playing my concertina which releived the stress.This is a problem you learn to live with in your mind,it enables you to have the strength to help others who have not gone through this and other terrible situations.It also enabled me to help my wife to cope with our loss.I have a lot to thank my little concertina for and this is just one of its powers.

Al

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I have thought long and hard about this posting and as so many of you have put your cards on the table I will add my experiences which to this day are still too painful to go into detail,but it may assist somebody out there.

Al

Thanks very much for sharing this.

IMHO this shows that not only the concertina has an impressive therapeutic value. This very forum has also its positive effects: a virtual world with friendly, helpfull and understanding people and the (almost) complete absence of the day to day problems that belong to real life.

I value my concertina very high, but participating in this forum is a therapy that comes very close to my concertina.

 

Thanks to all the particpants and to those who made this possible :)

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I have a lot to thank my little concertina for and this is just one of its powers.

 

Bless you, Alan, for sharing this and for being a source of friendly, helpful strength here.

 

I agree that this site is good therapy, too. And although I try to spend some time here most days, it doesn't take away from my playing, rather it inspires me to play more!

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I'm one for worry...particularly after Nanette's stroke. So, I've been holding off asking half expecting Helen or someone else to say, Where's Stephen Chambers? I know he was on the mend, but...well you know...not like him to have been silent this many days.

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In 1993 or 1994 my husband was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease but medication did not work well and his health deteriated. On Boxing Day or 27 December 1995 he was unable to walk and he was taken to hospital. After a month there he was transferred to a nursing home and his conditon deteriated further, and the doctors and specialist realised that it was not Parkinson's Disease. He died in November 1996.

 

This period of my life was very hard and I could not listen to any music let alone play the concertina. I think it took me 12 months to pick up my instrument again.

 

I suppose this thread should go in the playing after a hiatus.

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