Jay Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 I'm learning to play that wonderful Louisiana handmade Cajun box that you see piccies of on my site. The one by Lee Begnaud. My concertina's been moved to the back burner for a while. Those darn Cajuns are so friendly that they're inadvertently putting pressure on me to learn to play the accordion. The guy I bought it from keeps asking me if I got the music out of it that he put in there for me, and the accordionist in a band whose CD I just bought invited me to come down and jam with them. So I have my work cut out for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Posted October 14, 2003 Author Share Posted October 14, 2003 Gee Jay, I think you should figure out how to do Cajun on your concertina and then come give us a workshop. How about at the Midwest Squeeze In when Rhomylly and I figure out how to do it? I've actually got a great site for a Squeeze In. Helen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimLucas Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 See if you can get the CD by Bayou Gumbo, the band in which Harry Scurfield plays anglo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Posted October 14, 2003 Author Share Posted October 14, 2003 Wow, thanks, Jim. Do they only have one CD? And how about Klezmer, do you know people playing Klezmer with Anglo? Thanks, Helen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimLucas Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 ...Bayou Gumbo, the band in which Harry Scurfield plays anglo. Do they only have one CD? I only have the one, but I got it several years ago. Others may know more. Harry has certainly made other recordings, though not necessarily Cajun (or pseudo-Cajun). He's an excellent, versatile musician, who does French, blues, African "squashbox", etc., etc. And how about Klezmer, do you know people playing Klezmer with Anglo? Well, I think Bertram Levy has done some from time to time, but right now I understand he's in love with tangos and bandoneons. I'll bet Jody Kruskal could do a credit to klezmer, as well, though I don't recall him doing anything that he labelled as such. If the local (Copenhagen) klezmer band wanted a concertina player, I'd be willing to try that on the anglo, but 1) they haven't asked me, and 2) I'm still much better on English (which I think is especially well suited to the klezmer scales). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Posted October 14, 2003 Author Share Posted October 14, 2003 Great, Jim, thanks. And hey, you can play klezmer on the English, it's ok by me. Course, I don't have a lot of say in Copenhagen. Helen Come to the Midwest, we'll let you play anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Posted October 15, 2003 Share Posted October 15, 2003 Gee Jay,I think you should figure out how to do Cajun on your concertina and then come give us a workshop. How about at the Midwest Squeeze In when Rhomylly and I figure out how to do it? I've actually got a great site for a Squeeze In. Helen Now there's an idea. Hmmm. The concertina doesn't have as many reeds as the Cajun accordion, but it has way more buttons. Hmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Posted October 15, 2003 Author Share Posted October 15, 2003 Oooooooooh, Jay, you can do it, I know you can. And it would be just a hop, skip and a jump for Jim Lucas, so maybe he would come too! Geographically challenged, Helen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimLucas Posted October 16, 2003 Share Posted October 16, 2003 Now there's an idea. Hmmm. The concertina doesn't have as many reeds as the Cajun accordion, but it has way more buttons. Hmmm. Depends on which concertina and which Cajun accordion, I'll bet. My 80-button Maccann duet has 160 reeds. How many reeds does a Cajun accordion have? (Depends on the number of stops, I'm sure.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Morse Posted October 16, 2003 Share Posted October 16, 2003 The typical full-size 1 row Cajun button accordion (with 4 stops) has 90 reeds. While Jim's duet is about as "full-sized" as you can get in concertinas, the standard 48-key treble English (at 96 reeds) still has more reeds than the full-size Cajun BA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Posted October 16, 2003 Author Share Posted October 16, 2003 Oh goody, Jim can go Cajun. He doesn't need all the reeds, he can improvise. Helen Maybe a Jim and Jay duet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kautilya Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 (edited) [quote name='bellowbelle' date='02 October 2003 - 01:43 PM' timestamp='1065102214' . Start digging here and work outwards Leyland Accordion Club http://www.accordionclub.co.uk/ Edited January 27, 2010 by Kautilya 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon H Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Forgive me, but why do people dig out 7 year old threads and reply to them? I can understand when a discussion covers ground that was well covered previously, a member might put a link to the old thread for the benefit of all to read. But when things just get randomly revived and comments posted to, I just don't get it. This seems to happen quite a lot here, I'll see a thread and think, "I didn't spot this one, looks like people have been having a good discussion" I'll backtrack through and follow it all, and then spot a five year old date.... This isn't to say that old threads aren't interesting, but I'd prefer to go search rather than have them pop up in the middle of the current stuff. Perhaps the nmoderators could flag them ass "old thread revived" or move them into a sub heading or something. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kautilya Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Forgive me, but why do people dig out 7 year old threads and reply to them? Whoops! Absolutely on your old threads labelling idea. This (I thought...) came up when I hit the "new content" button and hence my reply to the (I hope still alive in the US)respondent but I did not take in how old it was :o Leyland came to mind as I missed what appears to be a regular (and free) concert by a few hours last week....found out too late Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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