Spellan's Hornpipe Medley: Spellan's Delight, Spellan's Fancy & Spellan's Fiddle

[Eric Lerner]

Here's three hornpipes I found in O'Neill's Music of Ireland, all named for a legendary Irish fiddler called Spellan. Played (with just a few bobbled phrases) on my 40-button Wheatstone Edeophone 1934 D/A Anglo concertina -- and I even use some of those extra buttons on these tunes.

 

 

Edited June 1 by Eric Lerner
Oops! link omitted.

[Roger Hare]

3 hours ago, Eric Lerner said:

Here's three hornpipes...

I can't see the video? Am I doing something stupid?

 

'Cookin' with gas' now! Thanks!

Edited June 1 by Roger Hare

[Eric Lerner]

Oops!  I left out the link.  Now it's fixed.  

[David Barnert]

3 hours ago, Eric Lerner said:

... my 40-button Wheatstone Edeophone 1934 D/A Anglo concertina ...

 

Nice playing, but Wheatstone or Edeophone? Can’t be both, as Edeophone was a Lachenal brand. Aeola, maybe? Hard to tell in all the dark, but it doesn’t look like it has enough sides to be an Edeophone.

[Ken_Coles]

Possibly OT: Unless he has one of the three twelve-sided Wheatstone anglos made in the early 1930s. Another in D/A is played by Grey Larsen. There was an article in one of the journals (the one from Alan Atlas's center at CUNY?) about how these may have been Lachenal parts used after Wheatstone absorbed them (I'm happy to be corrected on details).

 

Ken

[Eric Lerner]

28 minutes ago, David Barnert said:

 

Nice playing, but Wheatstone or Edeophone? Can’t be both, as Edeophone was a Lachenal brand. Aeola, maybe? Hard to tell in all the dark, but it doesn’t look like it has enough sides to be an Edeophone.

It's really a Wheatstone 12-sided Edeophone anglo.  They only made a few.  Reportedly, this was one of a set of three made for a trio of Cincinnati acrobats in the 1930s.  Grey Larsen plays another of them.  Here's a pic -- 12 sides, and if you squint you can read the Wheatstone nameplate.  

 

 

[Eric Lerner]

4 minutes ago, Ken_Coles said:

Possibly OT: Unless he has one of the three twelve-sided Wheatstone anglos made in the early 1930s. Another in D/A is played by Grey Larsen. There was an article in one of the journals (the one from Alan Atlas's center at CUNY?) about how these may have been Lachenal parts used after Wheatstone absorbed them (I'm happy to be corrected on details).

 

Ken

I think this is the article Ken referred to -- 

 

http://www.concertina.com/wheatstone-edeophone/Wheatstone-Edeophone-Concertina-with-Pre-MacCann-Duet-Fingering.pdf

 

[David Barnert]

Thanks. I (obviously) didn’t know that.

 

As I started to read the article, I wondered whether the Wheatstone folks actually used the word “Edeophone” to describe their 12-sided instrument, noting that “Edeophone” was in quotes, and the phrase, “the shape of a Lachenal Edeophone.”

 

But then I noticed the abbreviation “Edeo” on the Wheatstone production ledger. So Edeophone it is.

 

I’ve probably seen Grey Larsen playing his, but didn’t know the details of what I was looking at.

[Roger Hare]

6 hours ago, Ken_Coles said:

Possibly OT: Unless he has one of the three twelve-sided Wheatstone anglos made in the early 1930s etc...

Possibly OT, but I don't think so. I continue to be amazed at the erudition and courtesy shown by folks here when sorting out apparently conflicting bits of information. That's a fascinating article, and a lovely looking instrument (see earlier posts). Thanks all....

Edited June 2 by Roger Hare