Tedrow has arrived and it is FANTASTIC!!!

[Richard Mellish]

That chart is mind-boggling, with all those different chords just for A. I have been playing for over 50 years and have never felt the need for very many chords. When I was a child my grandfather showed me a few chords on the piano, which I now recognise as what guitarists call the "three chord trick". Those are essentially what I use on the Anglo, though usually not all the possible notes of a chord at the same time.

 

A one-row melodion has just two chords, one on pull and one on push, and those serve well enough.

 

I'm not saying no-one ever needs some of those chords, but I think I am saying Walk before you run.

[Sandra A]

1 hour ago, Richard Mellish said:

Walk before you run.

Exactly.  I don't always want to be stumbling and falling.

[SIMON GABRIELOW]

Of course, you can also find out chords quite simply in Anglo by fact that most adjacent buttons will make a 'third' when pressed together; eg. Button 3 left side ( middle C natural).pressed with next button to it will be C and E... Whilst same buttons with bellows moved outward and you now have D and F ..Of course that is incredibly basic explanation but it is also good to find out by pressing buttons together and learning by ear which do and does not sound good.. pressing a few buttons together at one time can make interesting results!🌝You will soon learn which sounds good and which sound horrible!😊

Edited September 12, 2023 by SIMON GABRIELOW

[Sandra A]

3 hours ago, SIMON GABRIELOW said:

which sound horrible!

Yes, some of them do sound horrible.  Did that by accident

[SIMON GABRIELOW]

Sometimes you can choose a really good discordant sound ( quite deliberately) to give strange atmosphere to a performance; a stormy or dramatic effect maybe. All kinds of things are possible within the hands given practice and experience over time. What you have is really a small reed organ with big capabilities🌝

[Sandra A]

Yea!  I got it back today!  So Happy   I think I need to name it.  Have any of you named yours?

[Leah Velleman]

My first anglo was Turtle, after a friend heard me talking about how confusing it was to learn and remarked that it sounded like I was teaching a turtle to do dog tricks.

[Sandra A]

23 minutes ago, Leah Velleman said:

I was teaching a turtle to do dog tricks

That is funny  I never would have thought someone would come up with that for a name for a concertina.

[Alan Day]

Ted or Teddy would be nice.

[Anglo-Irishman]

Why not Connie or Tina?

[Sandra A]

5 hours ago, Alan Day said:

Ted or Teddy would be nice.

I thought about those but decided that just wasn't it for me and mine.

[Sandra A]

2 hours ago, Anglo-Irishman said:

Why not Connie or Tina?

Too common.  I will name it something different.  

[Sandra A]

I am not asking for suggestions of what to name it, I asked if any of you have named yours.

[Steve Schulteis]

Not a name I came up with, and not a concertina that I still own, but my first one was named the Herrington Hercules. You can find the story of how it came by that name here:

 

[Sandra A]

1 hour ago, Steve Schulteis said:

You can find the story of how it came by that name here

That is a great story.  How is Hercules doing now?  Still around?

[SIMON GABRIELOW]

I used to have tortoises called George and Rosy ... And later on a Cairn terrior we called Sparky .. and he used to make funny noses like a 'Bag pipe'! Then there was Fred and Betty ( guinea pigs)!.

Just thought I would add to the theme.. with its one musical likeness bagpipe Sparky!

[Alan Day]

Sparky was the Magic Piano. 

[Steve Schulteis]

19 hours ago, Sandra A said:

That is a great story.  How is Hercules doing now?  Still around?

 

No idea about the tortoise. The concertina is with Gen Totani in Japan and makes occasional appearances on YouTube.