Bass concertina and harp - King of the Fairies

[gcoover]

With all the recent posts about bass concertina, I just now remembered this recording from mumble-something years ago featuring the wonderfully unlikely combination of double-action bass concertina and concert harp:

 

https://soundcloud.com/user-906796422-441231868/king-of-the-fairies

 

 

[Daniel Hersh]

On 8/28/2021 at 2:22 PM, gcoover said:

With all the recent posts about bass concertina, I just now remembered this recording from mumble-something years ago featuring the wonderfully unlikely combination of double-action bass concertina and concert harp:

 

https://soundcloud.com/user-906796422-441231868/king-of-the-fairies

 

 

Gary--

 

I like it!  Is that a bass English?  If so, I didn't know (or had forgotten) that you played English in addition to Anglo and Jeffries Duet.

[Robin Harrison]

Very nice Gary.....from the opposite end of the concertina spectrum....played on an aeola piccolo. 

Robin

King of the Fairies

[gcoover]

On 9/6/2021 at 11:55 AM, Daniel Hersh said:

 

Gary--

 

I like it!  Is that a bass English?  If so, I didn't know (or had forgotten) that you played English in addition to Anglo and Jeffries Duet.

Yes, it's a 35-button stretched hexagon EC in basic black, presumably a Lachenal. EC was my main instrument for many many years so of course I had to get a bass after hearing Bernard Wrigley. But his is single-action and he told me he'd be no help at all on how to play a double-action one! Still, what an awesome sound, you feel the low notes more than you hear them.