SIMON GABRIELOW Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 (edited) There's a lot of interesting little profile icons people use on here ( c.net)..The icons in the circles near your name. And I wondered, there must be sometimes a story behind your choice of images? Some of them are very intriguing as well. My own ( profile icon) is from a drawing I made years ago for design work. Of course,there's also lots of distinguished real human faces on some of those icons.. but what's behind your own Icon that you chose here on c.net.? Edited June 19, 2023 by SIMON GABRIELOW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Chambers Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 Mine is the first concertina, of which I'm the present custodian. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill N Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 Mine is my first concertina- a square, 26 button Henry Harley that I inherited from my Grandfather. It originally belonged to my Great-great Grandfather c. 1875, a mill worker in West Yorkshire, and was brought to Canada by my Great Grandfather when he homesteaded in Saskatchewan in the early 20th century. It would probably better be called a German-Anglo than an Anglo-German. It was an attempt to fill a spot in the market between cheap German and expensive English made instruments. I play it for song accompaniment sometimes- the Broad Steel Reeds have a lovely warm sound. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d.elliott Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 My icon is a composite picture progressing through the layers of parts from one end of my Aeola Treble. Initially intended as a teaching aid I decided to use it for my Concertina Tinker badge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Day Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 I used to play in a French Traditional Dance Band called "Rosbif" Our last record featured all the members of the band made out of plaster and painted.. Mine of course was the Concertina player. The lady who made them I met at a Hurdy Gurdy weekend and purchased the Hurdy Gurdy player and she kindly made the rest of the band featured on the LP. (French Bag Piper, Cello player, Viola player, Bassoon player and my little Concertina player ). Al 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul_Hardy Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 Mine's a rapid caricature done of me at a national mapping conference in Cambridge some 30 years ago! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Barnert Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 Mine is a carving on the exterior of the Peace Tower of the Canadian Parliament building in Ottawa. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leah Velleman Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 Mine's a kid's toy that's advertised as a "fox concertina." I was looking for a fox playing the concertina, but this was too cute to pass up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanc Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 Doesn't everbody have a bunny with a pancake on their head? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglo-Irishman Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 Mine is my trusty metal-ended, 30-button Stagi, early 1990s vintage, which served me well for 20 years in my folk group, featured on the group's CD, and is still going strong ten years after the group disbanded. After a few years' usage, the bellows needed replacement; I got one made by Concertina Connexion, which made the concertina twice the instrument it had been as new. The reeds, however, are all in good tune, even after 30 years. Cheers, John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMON GABRIELOW Posted June 21, 2023 Author Share Posted June 21, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Anglo-Irishman said: Mine is my trusty metal-ended, 30-button Stagi, early 1990s vintage, which served me well for 20 years in my folk group, featured on the group's CD, and is still going strong ten years after the group disbanded. After a few years' usage, the bellows needed replacement; I got one made by Concertina Connexion, which made the concertina twice the instrument it had been as new. The reeds, however, are all in good tune, even after 30 years. Cheers, John Likewise.. I have had my Hohner branded Italian made anglo concertina. Still going after over two half decades; and used very often . Same vintage as your own concertina too...purchased in 1999.🌝 Edited June 21, 2023 by SIMON GABRIELOW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maccannic Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 Mine is a photo of an angel playing a concertina (actually a stone carving in Bath Abbey, UK). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcoover Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 From a photograph I took in 1979 of William Kimber's headstone in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Headington Quarry, Oxfordshire. With Morris bells also carved in stone. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardr Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 I like the bunny with a pancake. Mine is our kitty cat hanging upside down from her hammock. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellowbelle Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 Mine is an edited photo clip from a video where I am playing my concertina and singing and my daughter's cat joined in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMON GABRIELOW Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 I hope that cat had a good voice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellowbelle Posted July 15, 2023 Share Posted July 15, 2023 Nope. He's all about the photo opp! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMON GABRIELOW Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 Lovely creature; goes well with the plush fitted box also, I see? 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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