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Got the news today that she is being shipped!

 

Hope I got the pics attached :-)

 

NNY

Your little baby looks fully grown to me.

Looks as though you will have fun with that one.

Al

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Got the news today that she is being shipped!

 

Hope I got the pics attached :-)

 

NNY

I assume you've seen the video .......

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Bob builds beautiful concertinas. It has a deep sounding voice....almost "organ like." The only regret is that Bob's video was a bit too short. I would have love to hear a complete song with your new concertina.

 

NNY, congratulations on a nice instrument. Do you play with a lot of chords? I am used to playing with 8 fold bellows that have a lot of air. I know only one other person who plays a ten fold bellows (Johan Alberts from South Africa).

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Do you play with a lot of chords? I am used to playing with 8 fold bellows that have a lot of air. I know only one other person who plays a ten fold bellows (Johan Alberts from South Africa).

 

 

I am not sure what the whole concertina community's tastes in music is, as I have limited exposure just on the net and what I have bought. I do not play what I think of as pub music. I have a lot of old English, Irish, and Scottish music from my fiddle days, but when I found how easy it is to play by ear I began to build an odd ball collection of tunes; for example some hymns, Civil War, WWI tunes, and Broadway tunes. I found that some of them take a deep "breath".

 

I originally ordered 8 folds, but when I switched to a baritone I began to wonder if those low reeds would require pushing a lot of air. It is not every day I order a custom instrument, so I made a plunge and increased to the 10 folds. I have been a little conflicted by the choice, but it looks like it will turn out well.

 

I have some material to start working on more chords I really need to get serious about, but what I'm playing now is so fun I have a hard time motivating to do homework.

 

NNY

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It is not every day I order a custom instrument, so I made a plunge and increased to the 10 folds. I have been a little conflicted by the choice, but it looks like it will turn out well.

 

NNY

Worst case secanario, it would be good for skipping........... :ph34r:

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