Tune with a backstory

[Jim Besser]

Here's a jaunty little jig with a story.

In about 2001, I was waiting for delivery of what is still my favorite concertina - a Lachenal with Dipper mechanicals, sold by Paul Groff - , and I was pretty excited.

 

So my bandmate Julie Gorka wrote this tune: "Besser's New Concertina." I liked it a lot, but it soon got lost in the endless flood of new tunes. This week I was rearranging my music area and realized I had a framed copy of the notation on my wall, right in front of my nose - David Barnett notated it for me.   So I re-learned it, and still like it alot.