LDT Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 I was telling the people at work about how I was learning the concertina and I showed them the video of me playing twinkle little star and they were all 'ooh, looks complicated' and 'That's a lot of buttons'. I think they were impressed with my megre offering. lol! Just wanted to share..no ones ever been intrested in anything I'm doing before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakeland Fiddler Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Look at it this way LDT; that makes you the best concertina player at work, you are well above average Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDT Posted September 1, 2008 Author Share Posted September 1, 2008 (edited) Look at it this way LDT; that makes you the best concertina player at work, you are well above average My boss told me the other day he used to play the accordian...badly (his words not mine) lol! Edited September 1, 2008 by LDT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterT Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 My boss told me the other day he used to play the accordian...badly So there you go. After a few months, you might be in the position to offer your boss some lessons. Regards, Peter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjcjones Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 perehaps you migt be able to teach him the song, on my little concertina. By the great Jim Garrett, he of the rocket-shaped guitar and well-turned pun. Star of Blackmore Folk Club (is that still going?) and other insalubrious dives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wntrmute Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 My boss told me the other day he used to play the accordian...badly The appropriate question at that point is, "Is there some OTHER way of playing the accordion?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Rogers Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 My boss told me the other day he used to play the accordian...badly The appropriate question at that point is, "Is there some OTHER way of playing the accordion?" http://squeezebox.tribe.net/photos/e38c93c...34-15ac58cdd05c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirge Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 According to my wife one way NOT to 'Win etc...' is to try and work out how to play 'Take The A Train' on the concertina while she is trying to work on another floor and behind a closed door. Lots of interesting crunchy chords involved as you can probably see, but how else do I move on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglo-Irishman Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Look at it this way LDT; that makes you the best concertina player at work, you are well above average LDT, A musician friend of mine gave me an interesting insight that builds me up every time I'm down: I may not play the concertina very well - but most people can't play it at all! Cheers, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 John I like that. In a similar vein a friend once told me, after I was berating myself for forgetting words to a song and having to play an extra 'instrumental break,' - 'most of the audience wouldn't know and those that did would just see it as another variation'. When you have a memory like mine these observations are very consoling chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDT Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 (edited) My quote of the year is from Morcombe and Wise...."I'm playing all the right notes.....just not nessarily in the right order." lol! Edited September 2, 2008 by LDT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakeland Fiddler Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 I may not play the concertina very well - but most people can't play it at all! Or, to missquote someone else: "You may say I can't play he concertina, but you can't say that I didn't play." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakeland Fiddler Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Morcombe and Wise No, no! You mean Morecambe and Wise. Eric's memorial is just down the road from here so I couldn't let you get away with that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDT Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 Morcombe and Wise No, no! You mean Morecambe and Wise. Eric's memorial is just down the road from here so I couldn't let you get away with that lol! I soooo can't spell this afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDT Posted September 12, 2008 Author Share Posted September 12, 2008 Funniest (funny unexpected) thing happened my grandad was looking through the concertina tutor book and suddenly starts singing one of the songs in it (grandfather Clock) ..and I'm like 'you know the tune?', he says 'Yes' so I asked him to let me record him singing it.....now I have another tune to learn He didn't know any of the others though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Funniest (funny unexpected) thing happened my grandad was looking through the concertina tutor book and suddenly starts singing one of the songs in it (grandfather Clock) ..and I'm like 'you know the tune?', he says 'Yes' so I asked him to let me record him singing it.....now I have another tune to learn He didn't know any of the others though Ask Grandad to sing you ' Burlington Bertie', the man who rose at ten thirty. That was the first tune I ever played on my original 20 key Anglo ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDT Posted October 22, 2008 Author Share Posted October 22, 2008 Every time someone comes round my house I shove the concertina infront of them and go ooh have a go..... So far I've got two converts..well almost.... First is my sisters friends little sister who I had to occupy why the adults chatted and my sister gossiped so I let her have a try of the concertina and she got it after 30mins. (now she just has to pursuade her parents to let her have one) Now the other day there's a family we know and I'm helping out the daughter with her studies being a kind of mentor and she came round and I got out the concertina again and when try it. She got it in 10mins. And her mum tells me she's been asking if she can buy a concertina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterT Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 So far I've got two converts..well almost.... You'll have to learn fast to stay a couple of steps ahead; you know what these youngsters are like! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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