La Vie en Rose

[Gavin Atkin]

As we say au revoir to our European chums, Julie sings the beloved 1945 Edith Piaf-Louiguy hit La Vie en Rose with my accompaniment on the rarely heard Jeffries duet concertina.

 

 

(Fixed... I hope it works for everyone now.) 

 

Gavin 

Edited December 29, 2020 by Gavin Atkin
Duff link

[JimR]

Your link points to this thread, not the youtube video.

[gcoover]

Re: the link, if you cut and paste it, it works.

 

Gary

[David Barnert]

If you want the video to appear here in the thread, go to the youtube page with the video, click the word “Share” (with the curved arrow) under the video image, and then click “Copy” in the window that appears. Then paste that (as bare text, without clicking the link icon or the “Other Media” button) into a post in this thread. It will magically expand to the video.

[Gavin Atkin]

Thanks - I'll give it a go. 

 

G

[Dan Worrall]

Gavin,

 

I'll leave the technical notes to others. I enjoyed your recording....very nice indeed. You make the odd, rare Jeffries duet sound useful, artful and approachable! Thanks for posting.

 

 

[Gavin Atkin]

Thanks very much. I'd say that it /is/ a useful approachable instrument, and it's a sadness that it seems so likely to disappear over time. 

 

G

Edited December 29, 2020 by Gavin Atkin

[wunks]

I wouldn't say odd except in comparison with other systems.  The logic is different, more like a piano and lends itself well to playing by ear.  I remember Neville Crab telling me when I was looking for my first box and had little money that it didn't matter much which system you started with and I believe he was right....😉

[wunks]

I no longer have an edit option to add the other b to Crabb.  Why is that?

 

[gcoover]

7 minutes ago, wunks said:

I no longer have an edit option to add the other b to Crabb.  Why is that?

 

Fear not, it's hiding in the three little dots in the upper right corner.

 

Re: playing the Jeffries Duet, Stuart Estell makes the interesting comment "I find it much more manageable than the Maccann keyboard in remoter keys. The Maccann makes me think, the Jeffries just lets me play.” 

 

And yes, it appears the last Jeffries Duet was made in the 1970's by Crabb. But now that there is The Jeffries Duet Tutor, perhaps it might help those struggling towards mastery like Gavin's and Michael Hebbert's playing. Or, just playing for fun - I find I spend a lot of time just experimenting with melodies and finding unusual chords quite by accident. My next lockdown project is to work up a Leon Russell tune on the JD!

 

Gary

[wunks]

Thanx Gary.  Stuart's observation fits it exactly.  Some times I start playing a tune and I don't even know what key I'm in.  The instrument just guides me along. 

[gcarrere]

So moving! Excellent duet part, and marvellous singing voice! Bravo and... thanks!

[soloduet]

C'est très beau, merci! And it's nice that your music has no frontier...