LDT Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 so what's your favourite tune/song to play on the concertina? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoNaYet Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 One I wrote myself, titled "Playing on the Pourch" which has an established beginning and ending but is improvised inbetween. Of recognizible titles, I am found of Eternal Father, The Nutting Girl, The Rare Auld Times, and a whole bunch of others. NNY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Rogers Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Currently Sportman's Hornpipe, Mr Moore's Hornpipe and Scottishe a Bethanie, all three picked up from the website of Boggart's Breakfast, a Border Morris side from Sheffield: http://boggartsbreakfast.org.uk/ee/index.php/site/tunes/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Evans Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Ouf, not possible to say. At present I'm having a very good time playing Swinging on the Gate and the Providence Reel back to back. Makes me feel like a kid again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Stout Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 My current favorites: O'Carolan's Draught Bigg Market Lasses (learned from the CD Border Directors, from the Blue Moon Band, in Am but very chromatic) The Mathematician by Scott Skinner (uses the whole range of the EC) Friendly Visit (a hornpipe) Manor Royal March by Alan Day picked up from this list Time of Day (a slip jig) Belgian Breakfast also picked up from this list Joys of Wedlock (a jig which is much easier to play on concertina than it is on fiddle) Plus a whole bunch of others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDT Posted September 10, 2008 Author Share Posted September 10, 2008 Time of Day (a slip jig) what's a slip jig? Sounds like a painful injury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Stout Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Slip jigs are in 9/8 time. This particular one is, I think, Scottish. We played it for the ECD Cecelia Swirl a couple of years ago. It's kind of obscure, but it's a nice tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catty Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 (edited) Hundred Pipers; Cock of the North; St. Anne's Reel -- on anglo... Swallowtail Reel; Kesh Jig, O'carolan's Favorite Jig; Merrily Kised the Quaker -- on EC... ...because they're my most recent. Edited September 12, 2008 by catty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catty Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 what's a slip jig? Sounds like a painful injury. You're thinking of a SLIPPED jig.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindizzy Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 .....Bigg Market Lasses (learned from the CD Border Directors, from the Blue Moon Band, in Am but very chromatic) The Mathematician by Scott Skinner (uses the whole range of the EC) ..... Ouch -those two are vicious - they bite! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boney Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 On anglo concertina, the tune "Keelman's Petition" always felt fun to play. It fell under my fingers in a way that just felt amusing. I don't know how to explain it, really. It's the only tune I can think of that I somehow had a physical affinity for playing, as opposed to just liking the tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankeeclipper Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 (edited) Current favorites on my EC: Scott Joplin's 'THE ENTERTAINER' (ragtime), 'YOSHKE YOSHKE' (klezmer), both played as duets with a clarinetist friend. Anytime favorites: Jay Unger's 'ASHOKAN FAREWELL' (contemporary folk), good with guitar accompaniment; J. Pachelbel's 'CANON IN D' played as a quartet with keyboard, violin and double bass. Sentimental favorites: Maireread Green's 'MAGGIE WEST'S WALTZ' (Scottish) because Maggie West was a dear friend, and O'Carolan's 'A FAREWELL TO WHISKY' (Irish) which I played over the West Highland grave of another dear friend. Edited September 10, 2008 by yankeeclipper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiton1 Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Among the tunes I play there are loads of favourites, and even more so among those I still have to learn.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Usually the last tune that I have learnt. Currently Lannigan's Ball and The Rocky Road to Dublin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirge Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Nimrod, (Elgar; Stanley arrangement). Can't play it reliably through yet, but love the bits that work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterT Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 so what's your favourite tune/song to play on the concertina? The smart answer would be "The one I'm playing now" (if I could multi-task!). In truth, the longer you've been playing, the harder it is to answer this question. Is it the tune which I enjoy playing the most, challenges me the most, relaxes me? It could be any of these, depending on my mood. I remember that the late Peter Bellamy would always start a concert with "Aboard a 98", since I guess that it would relax both his audience and himself. I've often started with "Ty Coch Caerdydd", which I've been playing since before you were born (but still have to check the spelling!); probably for the same reason. But then I got this tune from Mick Tems and Pat Smith, and Mick no longer plays Anglo following a major stroke, so I feel I'm following the "tradition" of an Englishman playing a Welsh tune (although Mum was born an brought up in Wales). So; it's a personal connection. Then there's "Prince of Denmark's March" which I started playing, in the key of "G", back in the mid 1980's. My performance of this, at the 1987 International Concertina Association Festival (in conjunction with the set piece) earned me marks of 95/100, and two trophies for one performance! However, the late Paul Davies said to me that he had discussed this tune with Roger Digby, and they concluded that the "right" key on a C/G Anglo was "F". It took until about two years ago for me to actually re-learn it if "F" (about a day to get my head around the process, two days to polish it up!). Guess what .... Paul and Roger were right; it sounds much better in "F" (or equivalent fingering on my Jeffries). So; again a personal connection. Then there are two wonderfull tunes which I learned from Flos Headford; fiddle player with "Old Swan" and other celebrated bands of former years, and with whom I've shared a drink or several on more than one occasion . Oh, the tunes? "Lichfield Tattoo" (where I can swing the box - something Flos tried, and failed to do with the fiddle!) and an Appalachian version of "Soldiers Joy" which has most musicians scratching their heads, but is actually quite easy on a C/G Anglo. Must polish these up and record them. "Summertime" popped out of my head just last week, and I find that very relaxing. On the other hand "When I'm 64" comes into the category of "on a good day, I really don't understand what the problem is; on a bad day, someone seems to have moved half of the notes"!!!! I would not like to attempt this with 30 buttons, since I would have to re-finger a passage that falls nicely under the fingers on my 36 key. And so the list goes on, and I've added tunes from newer friends ...... Peter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fkohl Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Current favorites are Pipe on the Hob #2, Humours of Bandon, The Stranger, and Humours of Tullycreen. Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Constant Screamer Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 At this very moment I'm locked in a loop of "John Ryan's Polka". I can't seem to stop it! One I constantly go back to is that beautiful fiddle tune...Baker's Waltz....written by the former fiddler for The Mammals. Oh, and Tip Top Hornpipe, and of course there's "Jenny Lind Polka" and.... Right now my fiddle and banjo are VERY angry with me because for the last 4 days it's been my EC all the time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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