Anyone Have a Verb?

[rlgph]

I've been wondering about a verb to use when i'm playing my concertina.  For guitar (and some other stringed instruments, at least in the US) we use "picking".  What about concertina?

[Mikefule]

Squeezing, playing

[JimLucas]

10 minutes ago, rlgph said:

I've been wondering about a verb to use when i'm playing my concertina.

 

5 minutes ago, Mikefule said:

Squeezing, playing

 

I agree with Mike.  Both of those words are commonly used, and I can't think of any other term that's common.

[JimR]

Concertining?

[alex_holden]

10 hours ago, rlgph said:

For guitar (and some other stringed instruments, at least in the US) we use "picking".  What about concertina?

 

Pumping?

[John, Wexford]

4 hours ago, alex_holden said:

 

Pumping?

"I'll just go and pump the concertina" just doesn't have the same ring to it as some of the other verbs.

[Jake Middleton-Metcalfe]

for the past tense see "squose" I squose, they squose, we all squose together .

[Wolf Molkentin]

what about "operate"?

 

let me operate my concertina for a while...

[Chris Timson]

To misquote Lena Horne:

 

I got a new concertina
And there's nothing to it
You just sort of stand there
And just sort of do it

 

So, just do it.

 

Chris

Edited July 31, 2019 by Chris Timson

[Paul_Hardy]

I'm off for a twiddle on my concertina.

[rlgph]

I think i like squeeze best, especially with the past tense of squoze.  Twiddle is also kind of appealing, as is noodling, which pretty much describes my playing on all my instruments.

[JimLucas]

11 hours ago, Wolf Molkentin said:

what about "operate"?

 

let me operate my concertina for a while... 

 

I've never used -- nor heard used -- the word "operate" for playing a concertina... nor any other musical instrument.

 

However, I have many times "operated on" my concertina, when something needed to be adjusted or fixed.  8^)

[Mikefule]

4 hours ago, JimLucas said:

 

I've never used -- nor heard used -- the word "operate" for playing a concertina... nor any other musical instrument.

 

However, I have many times "operated on" my concertina, when something needed to be adjusted or fixed.  8^)

In comic announcements for our Morris side, I will sometimes refer to one of the musicians as an "accordion operator" or a "concertina owner".