Orange Day Parades today

[Geoffrey Crabb]

Anybody attend or take part, usually plenty of tinas.

 

Geoff 

Edited July 12 by Geoffrey Crabb

[Anglo-Irishman]

I haven't lived in Northern Ireland for more than 50 years. Before leaving, I even "walked" on one "Twel'th" as a tenor drummer in a pipe band! I remember the pipe bands, the brass bands, the flute bands, the accordeon bands, the military bands and, of course, the Lambeg Drums with their accompanying fluters. But I have no recollection of concertinas in this context.

50 years is a long time - things may have changed.

Cheers,

John

 

[Stephen Chambers]

 

On 7/18/2024 at 3:36 PM, Anglo-Irishman said:

I haven't lived in Northern Ireland for more than 50 years. Before leaving, I even "walked" on one "Twel'th" as a tenor drummer in a pipe band! I remember the pipe bands, the brass bands, the flute bands, the accordeon bands, the military bands and, of course, the Lambeg Drums with their accompanying fluters. But I have no recollection of concertinas in this context.

 

The Orange Concertina Bands that dealt with Crabb's are in the Liverpool region. They parade there, and in Southport.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 21 by Stephen Chambers
Dited t add video

[Geoffrey Crabb]

Thanks Stephen for clarifying that Crabb involvement was predominately with the Liverpool and Southport Bands.

For many years, upto closure, Crabbs regularly dealt with upto thirty such bands that included besides the drums etc., concertinas, either wholly or in combination with other instruments.

Mainly repairs and tuning but occasionally refurbishing newly acquired used instruments passed from other bands. Instruments favoured seem to have been Duets predominately and Anglos.

 

Although we had a list, now alas somewhere in the archives, the following band names spring to mind.

Star of Toxteth                                                  Cantrils Glory.

Duke of Lancs                                                    Bootle and District

Colonel Saunderson                                           Royal Arch.

Old Swan

 

A little more concentration on the concertinas and a recognisable tune (Moonlight and Roses) here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfpeZ61sVIM

 

 

Geoff

[Stephen Chambers]

42 minutes ago, Geoffrey Crabb said:

For many years, upto closure, Crabbs regularly dealt with upto thirty such bands that included besides the drums etc., concertinas, either wholly or in combination with other instruments.

Mainly repairs and tuning but occasionally refurbishing newly acquired used instruments passed from other bands. Instruments favoured seem to have been Duets predominately and Anglos.

 

You'd have had your work cut out with the repairs, I'd say, Geoff! There was a time, years ago in my London days, when quite a few "relics" of Anglo concertinas from the bands came my way via a guy called Keith Higham in Lancashire - and a sorry state some of them were in... 🙄