Yet Another Please Name This Tune..

[Marien]

Hello all,

 

This is a french dance tune I know fo a long time now, and I believe it is from the Ardèche region.

 

it is here:

 

I have it on an old tape (played on a melodeon), but I have no idea about the title.

Is there anyone who can help me with the title?

 

Thanks,

Marien

[Pete Dunk]

Sorry marien I can't help with the name of the tune but I have to say that's a lovely concertina, amboyna ends I presume, what is it?

 

Pete

[Marien]

Pete,

 

This lovely concertina is a very fine F/C anglo WA-3 model made by Wim Wakker, with amboina ends. I just got it last week and it is one of the last concertinas made by Wim in the Netherlands now he is heading to Washington state in USA (well, for the postman this is just around the corner isn't it?). It is very tight and economical with air. The rivetted action is a pleasure, and the instrument is comfortably light weighted. All reeds start singing very fast, even the low F. Compared to my old concertina's it feels like this one is playing all by itself just by looking at it.

 

I am using it for melody with chord play, and also for singing songs in F.

 

The model is quite the same size as an ebony lachenal 55 button Crane Duet (about 17cm across flats). The reed chambers are not too small, so you can here a quite other timbre (more mid range and basses) then on the smaller 15 cm. Irish C/G anglo model by the concertina connection that have a sound suitable for Irish music.

 

I should mention that the sound may be better than what you hear in the recording (if it is not the low quality of my speaker set on the PC).

 

Marien

 

Sorry marien I can't help with the name of the tune but I have to say that's a lovely concertina, amboyna ends I presume, what is it?

 

Pete

[Marien]

Somehow I must have had a brain wave in my dreams last night. This morning I remembered that the tune is called "leve tois et danse".

[Marien]

I have to make a correction, the tune is not from the ardeche region.

I found the LP by Melusine I knew it from.

Following the description on an Melusine's album "leve toi et danse"

is a Mazurka from the Auvergne region.

 

Marien