Could You Play This On The Ec?

[Ishtar]

I came across this piece today, it's a French accordionist. I'd never heard it before, but I've fallen in love with it, and I want to play it beautifully like that too. http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qt-ohf6jUo&NR=1

 

I've found the partition for it, so I can do the melody on the English concertina. http://www.ceilidhsoc.org/musictune.html?T...&_sg=French

 

How would you go about getting the rest of the sound? I'm at a loss.

 

Thank you.

[AnnC]

Thanks for the links, I've heard this tune played several times but never known what it was called

[michelv]

I tried to figure out what he is doing, and I think it's something like this:

 

http://www.tangosite.com/concertina/pub/canal-octobre

 

(download pdf and midi file on the right)

[spindizzy]

This is a Frederic Paris tune. We play it quite often at local sessions. Another good one by the same composer is the "Scottische de Virmoux"

 

You can find the ABCs for this and quite a few other Paris tunes at Steve Mansfield's site - The tunebook from Le Grand session de Manchester :-)

and you can hear the tunes by doing a cut 'n paste to Concertina net's Tune a tron convertor

 

Chris

Edited October 2, 2008 by spindizzy

[Jim Besser]

I came across this piece today, it's a French accordionist. I'd never heard it before, but I've fallen in love with it, and I want to play it beautifully like that too. http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qt-ohf6jUo&NR=1

 

 

Can anybody identify the type of accordion he is playing? Is it a chromatic button accordion, or a diatonic button box with a lot of basses? I've seen other French players playing these, but don't know exactly what they are.

 

 

EDITED TO SAY: never mind, it's a Saltarelle Chaville chromatic button accordion. Very nice sound!

Edited October 2, 2008 by Jim Besser

[Alan Day]

This tune is played regularly at the George Session.Thanks for the clip a lovely version.

A similar, but three part tune can be heard on page 8 of the Video section (alan day plays concertina).

Sadly the person who collected it did not have a name for it.

Al

Edited October 2, 2008 by Alan Day

[Steve Mansfield]

You can find the ABCs for this and quite a few other Paris tunes at Steve Mansfield's site - The tunebook from Le Grand session de Manchester :-)

 

Thanks for the website plug Chris, I feel like a proper concertina player now I've been namechecked on concertina.net!

 

I find Frederic Paris' tunes sit beautifully on the English concertina, there's something about the way he puts tunes together that flow under the fingers much easier than equally lovely tunes by other accordionists (I love Andy Cutting's tunes, for example, but they don't always sit as easily).

 

Mind you I play flutes and whistles as well and FP's tunes just flow out of them too, so maybe it's a musical, rather than a concertina, thing ...

[spindizzy]

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Mind you I play flutes and whistles as well and FP's tunes just flow out of them too, so maybe it's a musical, rather than a concertina, thing ...

 

... and that **** rauchpfeiffe (sp?)

[Steve Mansfield]

... and that **** rauchpfeiffe (sp?)

 

Nearly, it's rauschpfeife.

 

A fine Renaissance wind instrument of strident tone and spectacular volume, http://www.lesession.co.uk/rauschpfeife for anyone whose interested.

[David Barnert]

I just learned this tune at the Squeeze-In two weeks ago. It's called "Le Canal en Octobre" and is by Frederic Paris. I've since found the abc on the web in several places under that name. There are two things going on in the video that aren't clearly notated in the dots: ornamentation of the melody, which you should be able to imitate on the English Concertina, and left-hand rhythmic harmony, which may be more problematic. The chords aren't tricky, but creating a rhythmic accompaniment in addition to a melody on an EC is a tall order. That's why I play a duet concertina.

 

But keep trying.