Scan Tester Anglo Book

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Now available in paperback and Kindle - The Anglo Concertina Music of Scan Tester, with foreword by Will Duke.

 

104 pages, A4 size, with 45 QR code links to the playing of Scan Tester and Will Duke.

 

This is the musical follow-up to the 2024 reprint of Reg Hall's excellent 1990 biography of Scan Tester - I Never Played to Many Posh Dances.

 

As many of you know, Scan is best known for playing mostly in an octave style for stepdances and schottisches in village pubs in Sussex in the early to mid 1900's.

 

The book contains 41 tunes with musical notation along with Anglo tablature, plus four additional tunes with melody only.

 

It has been an absolute pleasure working with Will Duke on this! Will is the custodian of Scan's instruments, and last year he and his wife Chris graciously showed me many of the places where Scan lived and played music. 

 

Hope you enjoy learning his tunes!

Gary

 

 

THE TUNES:

The Bird on Nellie’s Hat

Broom Dance

General Jackson Schottische

Heel and Toe Polka

Jenny Lind Polka

Hi-Lo-Schottische

Hopscotch Schottische

Indian Polka

Irish Washerwoman

Last Figure of the Lancers

The Man in the Moon

The Monkey Hornpipe

No.1 Stepdance

No.2 Stepdance          

Not for Joe

The Nutley Waltz

Polka 1

Polka 2

Polka 3

Polka 5

Polka 6

Pretty Little Dear

The Reel

Schottische 1

Schottische 2

Schottische 3

Schottische 5

Schottische 7

Schottische No.9

Scotland the Brave

Seventeenth of March

Stepdance 2

Stepdance 3

Stepdance 4

Sweet Smiling Faces

Untitled Jig

The Vienna Waltz

Waltz

Waltz 2

Waltz (Untitled)

While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks by Night

(Tunes with no tablature: The Blue Ribbon-ish Polka, Dame Durden, The Humming Schottische, Seaside Tune)           

[Alan Day]

For a short while I played alongside Will in a Folk Band. 

He is the only person I know who can tell a joke whilst playing.

He has taken Scan Tester style of playing to a new level and my first thoughts playing alongside him was " Hold on he's playing twice as many notes as I am. 

I recommend this book .

The music can be heard live at many Folk events "Fans of Scan Tester".

Al

[Alison Scott]

The most instant of instant purchases! Thank you so much for all your wonderful books, Gary, and thanks too to all the players and their families who make this amazing resource possible.